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>> lets go over to rosen now on the fallout from syria. what you can tell us about that? >> well, of course, we are at a point right now where we are waiting to see if bashar al assad is going to make a full and candid declaration of chemical stockpiles as agreement negotiated between the u.s. and russians representing the syrians calls for him to do. its a pause period during which we are seeing secretary of state kerry particularly but other administration officials try to do something ex post...

>> lets go over to rosen now on the fallout from syria. what you can tell us about that? >> well, of course, we are at a point right now where we are waiting to see if bashar al assad is going to make a full and candid declaration of chemical stockpiles as agreement negotiated between the u.s. and russians representing the syrians calls for him to do. its a pause period during which we are seeing secretary of state kerry particularly but other administration officials try to do something ex post...

>> lets go over to rosen now on the fallout from syria. what you can tell us about that? >> well, of course, we are at a point right now where we are waiting to see if bashar al assad is going to make a full and candid declaration of chemical stockpiles as agreement negotiated between the u.s. and russians representing the syrians calls for him to do. its a pause period during which we are seeing secretary of state kerry particularly but other administration officials try to do something ex post...

>> brit, you once famously asked the president if there was a zigzag policy to his decision making process. could you ask the question in relation to. this i certainly okay i would have to look for more extreme term than zigzag. this has been quite a speck cackle to watch. in the end what we have now is a proposition that is substantively all problematic on a whole host of fronts. pillly, and you could tell it listening to chris van hollen its quite wonderful. it gets the president off the hook....

>> brit, you once famously asked the president if there was a zigzag policy to his decision making process. could you ask the question in relation to. this i certainly okay i would have to look for more extreme term than zigzag. this has been quite a speck cackle to watch. in the end what we have now is a proposition that is substantively all problematic on a whole host of fronts. pillly, and you could tell it listening to chris van hollen its quite wonderful. it gets the president off the hook....

The pause. >> brit, you once famously asked the president if there was a zigzag policy to his decision making process. could you ask the question in relation to. this i certainly okay i would have to look for more extreme term than zigzag. this has been quite a speck cackle to watch. in the end what we have now is a proposition that is substantively all problematic on a whole host of fronts. pillly, and you could tell it listening to chris van hollen its quite wonderful. it gets the president of...

Observed. this guy has the backbone like a ramrod. >> reporter: and an appetite for taking his time. like the months-long review of troop levels in afghanistan. >> i assume that any decision is a number of weeks away? >> there are a series of decisions that have to be made and the president is working through many of those decisions. >> how long is it going to take? >> thats what -- thats part of the decision making process thats ongoing. >> been going on forever. >> reporter: critics accused hi...

Syria hes sharing his command decision with these guys and this guy, and the playbook seems to change by the day as he works through his decision making process live on tv. >> this is not convenient. this is not something that i think a lot of folks around the wor world, you know, find an appetizing set of choices. but the question is do these norms mean something. >> doesnt he seem agonized? when i talked to administration officials, they insist that we all have politicized this issue and that ...

One opposition group said we werent even in existence when this picture was taken so dont go blaming us. how big of a problem is this for "the new york times" to misidentify the date around a photo? what does this tell us about pictures and videos coming to us? >> its obviously a serious mistake for "the new york times" and not being part of that decision-making process, i dont know what they did to determine the accuracy of it at the time. at a time when there was less social media and that sor...

Put yourself in the other fellas shoes. imagine yourself as a syrian and you want a better life, you dont favor assad and the fact that they have killed, i dont know, something in excess now of 100,000 in the conflict, the struggle for over two years, and youve got to decide where are you on this as a citizen of syria. and the president of the united states says, well, were not going to have any regime change and tells the world that assad is going to be there in the future. well, you worry abou...