concerns with russia s behavior inside of syria. you know the president has spoken publicly about about how russia doubling down on their support for assad would be a losing bet. so we re certainly mindful that that s on the agenda. but it s not what the president believes is the most pressing issue between our two countries. putin claims that his military involvement in syria is only intended to help defeat isis. the ap reports that the russian president could announce more military moves in his speech at the u.n. on monday. no word yet if the bilateral with president obama comes before or after that speech. let s turn to business now where u.s. stocks closed lower in a choppy session of trading. cnbc s louisa wouldjensen joins us live from london. bad news from caterpillar certainly didn t help, did it? no, it didn t. and these bellwethers. we watch them so very closely to see what the state of these big economies is in the overall
pakistan. and the fact that right now it looks as if the connections are still pretty dicey do make you wonder whether or not he may have been inspired but not necessarily trained by, and it s too early to know, but it certainly doesn t have all the signatures of an al qaeda attack. let me read from the wall street journal. this is must-read. honest ahmadinejad. reza, what do you think of this? it reads, in part, this way. if mr. obama and other world leaders were serious about iran, they wouldn t merely walk out on iran s president. they would rally the world to stop him, explaining the grave stakes to the public and making clear to iran that there is a deadline to diplomacy and that military force will be used if diplomacy fails. the only serious person at the u.n. on monday was mahmoud ahmadinejad.