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Ask him did you use chemical weapons against your own people and this was his response. >> the russian satellite since the beginning of these allegations of the 21st of august they said that they have information through their s satellites that the rockets l n launched from another area. so the whole story doesnt hold together. so no, we didnt. in one word we didnt use any chemical weapons. >> what do you make of that response? >> i think it was a brilliant lie. the russian satellites didnt pick...

Of carrying out that attack. even though that was not the mandate of the u.n. report. but anybody who reads the facts and puts the dots together, which is easy to do, and they made it easy to do, understands what those facts mean. we, the united states, have associated one of the munitions identified in the u.n. report, the 122-millimeter improvised rocked with previous assad regime attacks. theres no indexz, none, that the opposition is in possession or has launched a cw variant of these rocket...

There were a lot of things they bundled in there to try, i think, perhaps and put the russians off in someway they wanted to see out right condemnation of the regime on the 21st of august and wanted to see the serious consequences on the table, if syria didnt move fast enough to put weapons under control and of course, threw in there the fact the perpetrators could have a safe place trial. so we saw the russians move quickly against that suggesting emergency consultations to address their own po...

>> the evidence that was made available to the u.s. government was available after the strike on the 21st, not before. >>reporter: i draw your attention specifically to that language because that is more data, if you will, suggesting that one of the critical pieces of intelligence, this intercept, a telephone intercept, came from a foreign intelligence service and it was not gathered by the u.s. government. >> heather: catherine, what about the briefing? >>reporter: the briefing broke down into ...

Briefed lawmakers, many of whom arrived very casually dressed today were the four pillars of the intelligence assessment, number one, the chemical agent used. number two, means of delivery, in this case a rocket system. number three, what they call a chain of custody, so who was in control of the chemical agent, also the delivery system, and finally the chain of command, who made the decision to launch this chemical weapons attack. and lingering questions since secretary kerry spoke last week ab...

The united nations on whether or not inspectors believe chemical whens are used in syria, as it comes hours after the inspectors left syria. as i understand it, the briefing is underway now. lets listen in. >> activity pertaining to the 21st of august incident in the area. she thanked the syrian government and the opposition for their cooperation during this mission. the mission will be in a position to transmit its conclusions the to the secretary general, as soon as it has received the result ...

What about the interviews? do you have any idea when the interviews are going to be translated and available or is it going to go all together over the report? >> the latter. of course everything needs to be compiled into a report. as we said yesterday, there will be this report on the 21st of august incident. it hinges on the analysis of the samples and on the evidence witness statements that have been collected. yes, they need to be translated. and yes, they need to be compiled, but all that i...

Secretary general on her trip and on the current status of the investigation. she reported there was a wide range of fact finding activities pertaining to the 21st of august incident. the mission will be in a position to transmit its conclusions to the secretary general as soon as it has received the results of the laboratory results of the samples. so he can promptly present the results to member states and to the security counsel. the secretary general expressed his sincere appreciation to dr....

Little bit. bill: did you pick a date on the calendar? when is this baby going to come? >> are we betting again? you know, im going to say the 22nd. >> i took the 22nd yesterday. martha: i was going back and forth. ill go with the 21st. tough an hour and 20 minutes to change your mind. mayor dmapts grip of a punishing heat wave. have you stepped outside? we are not even halfway through this. how long with tens of millions have to deal with this weather? martha: edward snowden remains in limbo at...

Activity, did an illegal activity, we need to get him, capture him, get him back, make it a priority. make sure every country, russia, china, ecuador understands this is a priority for us, and that we are going to use not only diplomatic pressure but economic pressure and our trade pressure, every kind of power that we have right now needs to come to the front and we need to get this guy back to the united states and get him on trial. >> you know whats interesting, as i look at the situation, th...