giving this time to play out. when do you think you'll see action in the senate, on this new resolution, laying out the benchmarks? >> we're days from that. we're still working on the language, not only members but our staffs are. i think it would take some time. i would hope by the end of the week we'd have a consensus, if not on the particulars of the language, at least the outline of it. >> senator, let's take a step back. when you look at this and how this has played out, what have you heard to this point that gives you even a modicum of confidence that russia and syria will follow through with their word, will stand by their word here? >> i was very skeptical when this was proposed. i was, in fact, very negative, because of the lack of credibility on the part of the russians and the syrian regime when it comes to the issue of chemical weapons. however, in the more than 24 hours now since we've been examining this, there seems to be some potential. but let's not kid ourselves. the chances of this happening are a lot less than 50%.