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Diplomatic solution to syria with relief and that is the story today. i wanted to pick up where peter left off. these latest developments with russia and syria and john kerry's off the cuff remark that has become a real potential solution. how has that changed the game for the president and what he needs to accomplish in the speech tonight? >> i think it changes it dramatically, particularly on the hill. he no plonger is facing the problem of having a defeat of vote which gives him wiggle room. he can get back to froblly making the case that assad is sort of this horrible dictator and it is a ...

Believe it is members of congress's duty to follow the commander in chief in these sorts of matters. this has been very difficult for all of them. >> i think the prospect of any kind of weapons inspections can be heartening. and for people who remember foreign policy history, we have been down this road before and the inspections regime, iraq, these are real things that happen sometimes to prevent a war or delay a war for people who aren't overly cynical. that's separate from whether you have a regime that can deal with figuring out what they are up to. what do you think all of this does on th...

Than woodrow wilson. a lot of similarities between the challenges he faced and obama is facing today. he was also a communicator and gave 60 press conferences to the american people. >> in the first are these two m? when you compare wilson and obama facing different challenges, how do they differ? >> i think they differ in one big way, which is wilson believed very strongly in sustained dialogue. it was always a conversation going on between wilson and the american people and the congress. wilson strongly believed that those two branches, the executive and the legislative, should cooperate. th...

Vote, probably next week. it sounds like they are trying to come up with a resolution since the negotiations have been going on between the united states and russia and syria. so that it would create some sort of a system to endorse that for the senate. from what i understand in the house, it seems unlikely they would actually bring up some ig to vote on at this point. >> john, the majority of americans are zbens a strike and feel the situation has been mishandle d which is why yesterday with the developments congress and american people are relieved that maybe there is a possibility for a dip...

Over and over again this is not a real thing. this is very -- we're skeptical of this, no meat to this, what the russians are saying, playing a game here. then towards the end of the day, that language began to shift towards, well, the president did talk about this last year at the g-20 with mr. putin. so i think -- you have to look at putin's sort of ability to game out american politics and give him credit for that at least. >> okay, so putin at the moment when we're about to say, congress is saying, we don't want to strike, then he's game teenag ing it out and saying -- that's interesting. ...