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Americas problems hits a new low. new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the obama administrations ability to handle international and domestic issues. commentators feel thats true this week after the presidents mishandling of the syria situation. >> whether there is a developing idea that the president not so good at foreign policy, number one. number two, whether this whole syrian crisis will just take more air out of whatever leverage he has for the future of his a...

Of president obama calling his syrian policy, i took some notes here, inept, accidental, calling the president himself confused, indecisive, vacillating. have you been surprised, howard at the severity and the harshness of the criticism in the media? >> ive been surprised at how widespread it is meaning even on the left you have liberal commentators who either oppose military intervention in syria or think the president has been inconsistent or confused because he brought us to the brink of war ...

>> bill: washington beat segment tonight, big story, secretary of state kerry going to switzerland, talking with the russians about getting the chemical weapons away from assad. joining us from washington with the inside story fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen as well as fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron. a lot of chiefs going on here. but im the real chief. >> bill: okay. i understand that rosen. a lot of cynicism about this. commentators saying that putin is...

>> bill: washington beat segment tonight, big story, secretary of state kerry going to switzerland, talking with the russians about getting the chemical weapons away from assad. joining us from washington with the inside story fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen as well as fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron. a lot of chiefs going on here. but im the real chief. >> bill: okay. i understand that rosen. a lot of cynicism about this. commentators saying that putin is...

>> bill: washington beat segment tonight, big story, secretary of state kerry going to switzerland, talking with the russians about getting the chemical weapons away from assad. joining us from washington with the inside story fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen as well as fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron. a lot of chiefs going on here. but im the real chief. >> bill: okay. i understand that rosen. a lot of cynicism about this. commentators saying that putin is...

Who are lining their pockets to get them re-elected. thats what theyre doing. >> that is exactly what they are doing. and thats what citizens united makes even worse. i mean, you know, ed, sometimes commentators say we are a very divided nation. and on some issues, we are. but on all of the issues you talked about, the need to protect social security, medicare and medicaid, the need to create millions and millions of decent-paying jobs. do you know what african-american youth unemployment is tod...

On the -- your question. and that is, if this doesnt fall out the way we hope it does, martin, does the president then still move forward, hopefully with a few more members of congress and members of the international community in his back pocket, with or without them, does he move forward and still pursue an action of attacking and responding to syrias weapons of mass destruction against its own people? that remains to be seen. but right now the politics of this has shifted, and its going to be...

Whats the grand strategy? you know, commentators on all side, foreign leaders on all side criticized this administration, this president, for not having the strategy. not this week, not this year, not over the past two years. i mean, how do we do. >> i dont think its good for us. >> the president had with the strategy. >> we went through this before, we cynically let iran fight for yeerts. letting them fight. what its done to jordan. its unbelievable. a million people sitting there. perhaps unde...

And also, obama confusing winding response to syria. stephen colbert also had something to say about this, and why a focus on chemical weapons may not be enough. >> tonight were stepping away from the conflict syria, because apparently, so is the united states. a lot of details still to be worked out, and well get into those tomorrow, but the upshot is that america will not attack syria for gassing its citizens if they give up their chemical weapons. its like, if you decapitated a co-worker, so ...

Winning the day, putting the u.s. president on a wrong diplomatic footing again. he is a strong survivor but his strength is deceptive. he doesnt look like a typical ruthless tyrant. >> feel sorry for the lives that have been lost. you dont feel guilty. >> reporter: that soft, lisping voice. >> no government in the world kills its people unless it is led by a crazy person. >> reporter: president obama may have underestimated bashar al assad whos been in power 13 years the cool, shrewd, inherited...