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Strategically placed figure leaf. the bill doesn't match the statue and finds them unsuitable for children. it echos a growing conservatism in the russian government. the parliament unanimously passed anti-gay legislation banning propaganda of nonsexual relations to youth. who knows what the law means, but what we do know is that the fine for a person breaking it is steep, up to 100,000 rubles to be paid in denominations other than hundreds, i guess. that's about $3,000. president putin has strongly supported this anti-gay legislation. something tells me, however, that mr. putin will not be as...

There's the nontea party republicans that want out of this, anyway out of this but they need a figure leaf but harry reid and the president aren't ready to give them one. >> the latest nbc/wall street journal poll doesn't bode well for republicans. 53% of americans blame republicans for the shutdown. senator ted cruz was asked if his movement to defund obama care has done damage to the republican brand. here so. >> the polling has varied. the polling was very heavily weighted with an awful lot of democrats and awful lot of obama supporters and 20% of people polled were government workers. it's...

In the middle of the road on the senate side. and i think there's an opportunity today to brick that to a conclusion and to begin moving something off the senate floor in a bipartisan way. >> let's bring in chief political analyst gloria borger. the key is to get something past the senate so it can go to the house. >> there's the question of what can get through the house. >> if it passes the senate with extensive bipartisan -- a lot of republicans are on board. that will put enormous pressure on baner to let it come up for a vote in the house into it will put pressure on him if he still has t...

So 100,000 -- the president andd maybe it was by accident, maybe it was by design, said that it would be a, quote, red line. and then he was stuck with those words and we're trying to convince the american people that we're going to take these actions because bashar al-assad violated a chemical weapons treaty. >> neil: now we're not. either russia provided a figure leaf to to go ahead and not do that, but you think that would a mistake, right? >> i think the best way to bring this thing to an end is get the free syrian army the weapons they need. if you give me a second. look, there's al-qaeda...

Congress's redline. some of the things, including the attitude of putin and his deep backing of syrian has changed the dynamics. i would look at this as a crisis of the moment, not an ongoing trend. >> what do you think, was it a mistake? a lot of people say what's wrong with waiting? >> every time a president acts without congressional authority, there is a legal opinion that the president down the road will use. in this case there were no figure leaf no, nato approval, no u.n. resolution and before obama made the announcement, both people on the left and people on the right, both constitutio...