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Have to have a cease-fire or not. i don't think you can pretend that the weapons are turned over if they are not. there is an element of reality here and there is a civil war raging in this country and i don't see how do you it. >> to the extent this proposal has moved the needle at all. further evidence that diplomacy backed by the potential use of force is what gets things to happen. this wouldn't have happened if there hadn't been this possibility of a bombing campaign in the offing. the president will make an argument tomorrow night, i'm sure, in which he will say we need to keep this thre...

Friendly way, the russian ambassador was pleased with the proposal. dianne feinstein was positively excited about it. she had copies of the stories that she was handing out to people. ted cruz, who stands on the other side of many issues from her and perhaps this one as well, he said how interesting he thought it was. this thing is a political lifeline to all the members of congress who don't want to vote on it -- >> maybe a political lifeline. but what message does it send to the world? >> there will be a winner and loser in this. it looks like the winner will be russia and the loser will be ...

Then we're past it. we have to wait for the russians in their good time to produce a proposal that we will have a counterproposal -- it will go on ad infinitum. it's either to dismantle the weapons -- and the likelihood of that is like 1 in 100 -- when libya agreed to give up its weapons after being shocked by the iraq war, it took eight years. and when the civil war broke out in 2011, the inspection stopped entirely. so the idea of this being done is rathers small. but the russian objective is to either do it over a long period of time or tie us up and the momentum for any strike, any america...

Was asked specifically about this idea and whether he had had conversations about this with vladimir putin and he said, quote, i did have those conversations. and this, meaning this proposal, is a continuation of conversations i've had with president putin for quite some time. >> we haven't heard about them. we haven't heard about this proposal at all. >> why isn't it the u.s. idea if this is a continuation of the -- >> i can't answer that question. the policy of the u.s., not the purpose of the military strike, but the policy of the u.s. is to get assad to the negotiating table. why shouldn't...

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