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Senate, then we could pass radically different or significantly different bills. but we don't. so we have to accommodate the democratic majority in the senate. that's something that mcconnell has chosen to do. he could pass legislation with a simple majority, which i think he should do. but he has not. i understand why no senator wants to relinquish that. so we are stuck with higher spending than we should have. primarily it is driven, al hoe not solely, but primarily this deficit spending. >> can i just jump in real quick. because the spending on the military. >> sure, that's a -- >> number o...

People. a u.n. team will try to analysis of the alleged chemical weapons use. two days ago, tuesday of this week, syria's foreign minister saying syria accept ad russian proposal to turn over control of its chemical weapons and the eventual disman tellment of wmds which prior to then had negative been recognized by the assad reg beam. that same day president obama speaks to the nation in prime time laying out his case for a military strike but slowing congressional vote to allowing for the russian plan to possibly, possibly work. martha: what is next in all of this? is congress any closer to a...

Those negotiations happen in geneva the last couple days, between the u.s., secretary of state and the russian foreign minister to figure out if there can be a deal made about russia's chemical weapons. he now views the russians and americans eye-to-eye here, who will blink first. already president putin says any deal has to mean the u.s. take as military strike off the table. we'll see if the u.s. is willing to give that up so far. bill: we did not know yesterday what would happen. frankly the headlines are sometimes stunning. leland vittert, middle east bureau in jerusalem. martha. martha: s...

And it comes as the president has asked congress to hold off on a syria vote while diplomatic efforts are underway to put syria's chemical weapons under international control. but the president could need to return to that military option if negotiations fall through in which case he'll need the support of house republicans, many of whom, of course, are very much opposed to a military strike. the president did step up his meetings with members of congress after proposing that congress vote on the idea of a military strike in syria. martha? martha: so there's other business, of course, at hand ...

The moment that all of this started to turn to the russia plan and, oh, it looks like there's a possibility of a way out of a military strike here because we might have a negotiation on our hand. you were in a briefing with secretary kerry, susan rice, secretary hagel, general clapper and general dempsey on this issue and it sound like in that room nobody thought there was any chance of any breakthrough in negotiations. is that right? >> well, i think congressman, i think it was adam schiff asked the question of, because we had just heard about this offer from russia. the room was full. i thin...