concrete step toward the goal of moving syria's chemical weapons understand international control. but not everyone in washington was quite so happy. want to go to cnn's joe johns. he's in washington. joe, is there support for the deal from capitol hill? >> yes, don, certainly there is. a lot of the critical reaction you're talking about in washington has been why there isn't any use of force arrangement involving the united nations in the event the assad regime doesn't comply with the framework to get rid of his chemical weapons. but the white house has said use of americaned armed forces to do the right thing remains a possibility. senator carl levin, a democrat, his reaction was kind of typical. he said the united states remains prepared to act if syria doesn't implement the agreement. he also said today's framework represents significant progress. that's the kind of word they're using toward protecting our national security and global stability. russia and syria sought two