bashar al assad got away with using chemical weapons on a massive scale to kill more than 1,000 people. many of them children with not so much as a slap on the wrist. they don't believe that bashar al assad will ever give up all of his chemical weapons. they think it is an unverifiable process. right now, i have been on the ground in syria many times. i think it would be -- practically impossible for a team of international weapons inspectors to move around in that country. to use the roads. to use helicopters. to move from place to place. and we don't exactly know even how much -- how large the stockpile is in syria. it is believed to be about 1,000 tons of chemical weapons. vx, sarin, mustard gas. but we don't really know, and we don't know where exactly those weapons would be. so weapons inspection team would have to deal with the ongoing civil war, looking for an