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It. we need to see concrete actions to demonstrate that assad is serious about giving up his chemical weapons. >> there are, of course, a lot of moving parts here with no guarantee syria would follow through on this. the betting man would be wise to be skeptical. at this time last week we didnt know syria to get rid of chemical weapons was even a possibility. we turn now to nbc white house correspondent kristen welker. can you tell me more about what seems to be a concession when it comes to tha...

Process. surely, the discussion over the last few weeks the world has now said we do not accept syria using nuke clear weapons. there is no desire of a strike or military reaction to enforce that. it is ultimately possible, if the goal is to not have any more chemical when ponts attack, that made up the results. so the actual diplomacy may work. >> if this send up with syria handing over the stock people no, military force by the united states, no casualties caused by the american, no loss of li...

Reserved the option to use military force and that had the senate passed authorization, i think they would have ignored it in the house and considered that to be sufficient support of moving forward. but, steve, i have a suspicion that this scenario was worked out between president obama and president putin when they were together in st. petersburg. theyre never going to tell us that. they dont want either of her to constituencys to know that. but i the think there is more behind the scones that...

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Chemical weapons. syria signed as the latest nation to sign onto the chemical weapons convention. to seen on is to clear your stockpile an allow them to be inspected and ultimately destroyed. this week the white house has been combating the notion everything thats happened was unplanned, it was an unexpected reaction by putin and assad to an offhand comment that john kerry didnt intend to make. they say it was a long time coming. they started to get traction when president obama and president pu...

>> that order is upheld. a recipe for gridlock, incredible frustration. its an arrangement convenient for individual members of congress. stability means they get to keep their seats. thats the backdrop for the syrian debate. we know the incredible human and financial cost of iraq of afghanistan and of how our leaders responded after 9-11. our leaders rnl the elect tractor-trailer chaos that all of that unleashed. maybe that has something to do with why so many of them have been looking at syria...

Saying we should launch a strike with syria. do you take a lesson that this was achieved without taking a military strike. do you say, hey, im glad they didnt listen to me on that? >> no, steve, they wouldnt listen unless there was a credible threat of military force. thats what brought them to the table. we had to be jen when about this. we werent going to hurt civilians. but we knew how we could blow up some of his air 2350e8s. some of his planes, some of his infrastructure without hurting civ...

Of the past week. congressman, thank you for joining us. you heard the news, we are processing it. the outlines of a deal at least. what is your reaction to the news you are hearing this morning. >> steve, this is an extraordinary achievement on the part of president obama and secretary of state kerry and they did this on their own with virtually no help from their political party. nancy pelosi spoke up and you know a couple columnists, nick cristoff, richard cohen come to mind. for the most par...

>> in the case of the assad regime, president reagans old addage of trust but verify, know that i know i think is the saying. >> that is a need of an update and we have committed here to a standard that says verify and verify. >> secretary of state john kerry just over an hour ago. its hard to believe that it was only two weeks ago this morning that a u.s. military strike against syria seemed imminent, a foregone conclusion, the question wasnt if an attack would help but when an attack would hap...

The politics we are living with today. the politics that define the obama years the politics they are shaping the debate over syria. all a product of the 9/11 ripple effect. this is from a site called smart politics run by a political scientist at the university of minnesota, on the day of the attacks, september 11th, 2001, there were a total of 260 democrats in congress. the house and senate combined. today only 112 of them are still there. it means that 57% of the democrats were in congress on...