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now. you have expressed some doubts about military action in syria and i m wondering if you can be for specific about your concerns over the consequences and what they may be and whether mr. putin shares any of the burden for the responsibilities of mr. assad s actions. i m going to try to remember all this. first of all, the reset in the russian relationship was not done on a whim. there were specific u.s. interests that i believed we could pursue with russia where interests overhappened that would help us both on our long-term national security and our economy. and we succeed.
overwhelming consensus of humanity says is wrong, that wasn t saying i just kind of made up. i didn t pluck it out of thin air. there s a reason for it. reporter: so he is trying to say accurately that there are these international norms about the use of chemical weapons, and how that, if it doesn t violate international laws at least, you know, violates treaties and violates as he keeps saying the international norm but what he is really trying to do, politically spread the responsibility around. it is not just on my back. it is on congress s back and international community s back. everyone knows what he said one year ago. bill: we ll find out whether or not the strategy works in the end. they re back on the hill again trying to convince lawmakers. john mccain came out and said the draft from the senate doesn t go far enough for his taste when it comes to harming assad and his regime. reporter: right. bill: did the white house expect
i think there are a lot of fears of escalation and that it could reload to greater retaliation. i also think there is a big fear that any action that we do really needs to target the air power in order to limit that ability to retaliate. that being said, the opposition is have much in favor of a more robust strike to help them an empower them. but any reaction at this point is better than nothing. martha: there is also reports that the syrian defense minister under assad has defected to turkey. can you confirm those reports and how significant is that? would that be a sign his support is starting to principler and would that be a hopeful sign? it is a hopeful sign. he did defect with a number of senior commanders and important generals from the syrian army.
john mccain go that route? reporter: they knew he was concerned in one direction here that the president is being squeezed as you say. on one hand he has antiwar democrats from the left saying, why are we intervening at all? then you have folks like john mccain, saying intervene but don t make this a symbolic strike a shot across the bow as the president said last week. decimate assad s military. the president s team fanning out on hill. you saw secretary of state kerry and defense secretary hagel. they re back on the hill on closed hearing. yesterday was open hearings. what they re trying to do behind closed doors basically with general dempsey, we should point out, the joint chiefs chairman, make the case with intelligence behind closed doors, what they can t say in front of the cameras. i have to tell you i spoke to one top official here told me they simply do not know if they have votes in the house and senate as of today to get this