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Hes protecting a client state. he needs syria. its a warm water port, as congressman rodgers pointed out, for the russian navy. he gets to subvert obama at the same time as it seems hes helping him, so that makes him feel good. and he et gets to look like he playing chess against a guy who sometimes appear to be playing checkers. thats a useful thing. well see how this plays out. this might not play out very well at all. in a weeks time, well see the russians are not interested at all for endors...

If we have no other option before us, except to go at it alone and strike syria. >> how can we press russia? it does feel to me like the huge element in the room here is russia. >> one way to press them is by getting them to put pressure on syria to sign the chemical weapons convention. if were talking about reinforcing international norms, preventing the use of chemical weapons, syria is one of five countries in the world that has not signed the chemical weapons convention, banning these weapon...

Government says it has against the syrian regime. >> translator: if we have objective, precise data of who is responsible for these crimes, then well react. >> reporter: russia is not alone. >> the nays have. it. >> reporter: britain and germany are also refusing to endorse military action. this is the highest tensions have been between the two world powers since the cold war. >> we will have a very bad patch if we -- if there is a military attack on syria. and i think we can expect some pretty ...

The world did web the 8% of the population when it said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent. >> reporter: putin remains vehemently opposed. casting doubt of the evidence the u.s. has against the syrian regime. >> translator: if we have precise data of who is responsible for these crimes then well react. >> reporter: russia is not alone. britain and germany are also refusing to endorse military action, this is the highest tensions have been between the two world powers since the cold war. >...

Relationship between russia, the receive itup -- soviet union and syria. you think about all the transitions in the middle east, all of them have been former soviet client states moving into the more or less western column. so he sees lost influence in the middle east and syria is their large major client state. secondly theres a philosophy philosophical issue. they do not believe the international community should interfere in sovereign affair noise state. i think also vladimir putin is the sem...

Use of chemical weapons are abort. >> reporter: putin remains vehemently opposed casting doubt over the evidence that the u.s. government says it has against the syrian regime saying, "if we have objective precise data of who is responsible for these crimes, then well react." russia is not alone. >> the nays have it. >> reporter: britain and germany are also refusing to endorse military action. this is the highest tensions have been between the two world powers since the cold war. >> we will hav...

Abhorrent. >> reporter: putin remains conveniently opposed, casting -- vehemently opposed, casting down over the accusations against the syrian regime. >> translator: if we have precise data of who is responsible, well react. >> reporter: russia is not alone. britain and germany are also refusing to endorse military action. this is the highest tensions have been since the two world powers since the cold war. >> we will have a very bad patch if there is a military attack on syria. i think we can ...

Putin. >> i think he might go along with it or not protest it too much if he -- if all of his conditions are met, and they show him the overwelling proof, but they wont participate, of course. this is their client state. he said they have their plans, and that is kind of ominous. the last thing we want is all of that fire power out there at that small body of water being used. >> thank you for joining me today for this half hour. im carol costello. "legal view" after a week break. mine was earne...

Drawing red lines in the sand send s a really, really bad message, not only to the syrian s who really cant do damage in the long run, but to the iranians. their client state who really can do big trouble. katty kay, the shocking news from capitol hill yesterday, senator john mccain in the middle of the hearing lost while playing iphone poker. he even tweeted about it. >> he did. he said, big deal about being caught playing poker. actually the worst of it was that he lost. here s the tweet. scan...

Impact our direct facinational security. what im surprised about, we sent troops into bosnia when there really wasnt a clear, direct u.s. interest at stake. we did the same with kosovo. we went into afghanistan next. that obviously made a lot of sense after 9/11. most americans agreed with that. we stayed there too long. we should have gotten out three, four years ago. were going -- we went into iraq which we found out there was no direct interest here. you could make the argument of all of thos...