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Chemical weapons as a result of a russian proposal and not because of a possible u.s. military strike. that news comes hours after the russian president vladimir putin put the news to you. he said, russia has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling syrians to develop a compromise plan for it is own future. former secretary of state leon panetta says putin's op-ed is part of a strategy. >> i think it's clear that he's trying to weaken our resolve and make sure that we would not fulfill our pledge to conduct military action if we have to. so i think he was trying to, in his own way, weaken the unit...

Citizenship. there are many steps along the way and supporters of this plan think that is part of the sort of penalty and part of the care that they believe is being put into this compromise plan. it isn't something that happens right away and it requires a fine learning english, other steps they think are somewhat punitive without going too far. that's sort of the rub there. and it seems like we went from do nothing congress to do everything in one week congress so they are all trying to learn about what's in this immigration bill while it's still being written and deal with guns issue as wel...

Compromise plan. what if the republicans take it as a starting point for negotiations, not the final plan? that's a risk, but i think the white house has calculated that the only prospect for getting a kind of grand bargain that would include entitlement changes and some of the tax hikes they want is if they appeal to these more moderate republican senators. the president puts out his budget on wednesday. that night he meets with a dozen of these republican senators over dinner. if there's going to be a deal to be done, watch that dinner. >> i want you both to weigh in on this because we were ...

Allow the process to work, let's have a true democracy, a true majority vote in the house of representatives, and then we could pass a true balanced plan, the kind of compromise plan that the president has put forward. >> you said earlier today on msnbc that you think that boehner is stringing this out because he's concerned about his position as speaker of the house. has he lost control of his caucus tonight? >> well, clearly he has. and it reinforces the point that i did make earlier today, which is a concern i'm sure he has that if he were to allow the house to have an up or down vote, let'...

Bring up that plan, put it to a vote. that's true democracy. if the speaker really wants to allow the process to work, let's have a true democracy, a true majority vote in the house of representatives, and then we could pass a true balanced plan, the kind of compromise plan that the president has put forward. >> you said earlier today on msnbc that you think that boehner is stringing this out because he's concerned about his position as speaker of the house. has he lost control of his caucus tonight? >> well, clearly he has. and it reinforces the point that i did make earlier today, which is a...