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The #special report. the stage is set for the bipartisan budget deal. mike emanuel tells us the critical vote on cutting off a filibuster happened a few hours ago. >> the yays are 67 and the nays are 33. >> reporter: 12 republicans joined with senate democrats on a bipartisan budget deal surpassing the 60 vote threshold. patty murray, who negotiated the package with paul ryan said ahead of the vote, it is a compromise. >> it doesn't tackle every one of the challenges of our nation, but that was never the goal. this bipartisan bill takes the first step towards rebuilding our broken budget pro...

He's protecting a client state. he needs syria. it's a warm water port, as congressman rodgers pointed out, for the russian navy. he gets to subvert obama at the same time as it seems he's helping him, so that makes him feel good. and he et gets to look like he' playing chess against a guy who sometimes appear to be playing checkers. that's a useful thing. we'll see how this plays out. this might not play out very well at all. in a week's time, we'll see the russians are not interested at all for endorsing this under any circumstance. >> briefly, mark, in that case, can you see the president u...

U.n. inspectors in to try to find those sites and how good is the intelligence? do we know what they've got and where it is? >> the intelligence is pretty good leading up to this conflict. remember, if we'd have gotten on top of this two years ago, as many of us were saying, hey, small and effective in the beginning instead of big and ugly later. well, guess what? we've had a lot of missed opportunities along the way. the details, the battle truth has changed over the last two years. so our options keep getting less and less. of course, with this, what looks to the international community is c...

Joins us now. what were your impressions on monday as to how his thinking was towards military action versus diplomacy leading into this big moment? >> well, we almost watched this in realtime unfold, didn't we? i think the president was prepared to make this case, make this argument for the use of military force in this context and then, as we were sitting there, i mean, these events were literally unfolding such that it became everybody's first question in the interview. what about this latest offer from russia to have syria turn over to international inspectors its chemical arsenal? you cou...

Clearly, with as much notice and tv blare as we have on this, they're going to enter a phase of trying to hide some of it. they're going to enter a phase of denial and deception of how much and what they had. all of this is going to happen and is happening. at the same time, our number one national security interest is can we stop and control the flow of those chemical weapons, stop their use now, and stop them from falling into the hands of either hezbollah, which is there, a terrorist organization, or al qaeda, which we know is really heavy populated out in it the east that wants to get thei...