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>> there is. and if the russians are convinced this is likely one and done and if the americans are convinced that russia will, through back channels, tell syria, we have no idea what went on here. and we want it to stop. perhaps if there aren't provocations, they will go to the table and find the agreem t agreement. other message, the united states was not at any kind of table negotiating on syria last week. it was the russians who were out there trying to negotiate short-term cease-fires. the point is now, the united states is saying, we're back at the geneva process. we'll try and collabora...

The justification. the chemical weapons. >> bits not the just using they will. having them. because of fear of them getting to isis. >> there is a geopolitical element as well. i know from my reporting with the white house that the, after the attack, even on back channels, russia officials were still saying, look, maybe this wasn't really assad. maybe this had 22nd the al nusra front. so there's a bit of geo politics at play here which you could say is in the national interests. the united states can't be made foos by another major world power. which is backing assad and ria. >> what about for...

He will come back tonight. i shouldn't be -- like you've talked to enough of his people. >> one thing we know about him. >> you should know this. don't tempt him. right? you've been talking to him nonstop through back channels, right? what are you doing? so anyway -- >> oh. dark humor. >> no, no, no. it really is. it's just not a smart move. >> it's not. >> on the russians' part. we started to discuss this last hour. talk about the paul that would have hung over the international community had we not responded to the chemical attacks this week? >> let's put syria in context, with respect to wh...

Scandal. this was likely her favorite grandson. >> this must have been devastating for her. >> but the scandal is about to get bigger. >> constantine discovers, from back channels, that perhaps fausta had manufactured all of this, that she favored her own sons for the throne and that she set crispus up to be murdered. he orders that she be put in a back chamber, the doors locked and the fires stoked to the point that it cooks her to death. >> as the self-proclaimed

Orders of his father, he is sent to the coast of croatia. and he is put to death by poison. >> helena was crushed by this scandal. this was likely her favorite grandson. >> this must have been devastating for her. >> but the scandal is about to get bigger. >> constantine discovers, from back channels, that perhaps fausta had manufactured all of this, that she favored her own sons for the throne and that she set crispus up to be murdered.