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Iran's nuclear progress. they're about a year from getting a bomb if they want it. the prime minister echoed those statements, agreeing with that. so of all of this talk of division between the two and problems behind the scenes, none of that evident today. very little daylight. ed henry is traveling with the president and is live in jerusalem. a lot of talk about the reports of chemical weapons being used in syria and the definition of chemical weapons varies between ours here and there's over there. >> it does. the president was on defense because a reporter from israel questioned and sugges...

>> 0 not on that issue but the overstate, yes. al-assad continues to believe he can prevail with weapons, foreign fighters and and political support. that's the word from robert ford whose embassy was shut down due to intense fighting. ford said the syrian regime lost control of the capital and the border. the embassador added the fighting reached to close to assad's residence it would have been rattling his windows. >> we think he's going to go sooner or later. collapse of the state institution, we do not want to see the syrian government disappear. the institution of the state,

Might hit jerusalem or israel. it was dramatic and it made me wonder if we missed something. i wonder what you're sense of where we are on this matter today is. >> reporter: well, it still is confusing. there are reports all over the map. prime minister netanyahu's intelligence minister today telling army radio that there are suggestions to him that chemical weapons in fact were used by the syrian government. but there was a hearing on capitol hill where in fact there were lawmakers kicking it around and the u.s. embassador to syria said we don't know this as a fact yet. it needs to be investi...

Antivirus yet somebody was able to get through. >> shepard: that would be quite something. jamie barnett, good of you. thank you. >> thank you. >> the use of chemical weapons in syria would be a game-changer, from the president in the last half hour, even as he said he's skeptical the rebels used the weapons. subtract the rebels and you're left with the syrian regime. the latest reaction coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news from "studio b" with shepard smith.

>> shepard: 32 minutes past the hour. the president said he's skeptical of claims from the syrian government that the rebels were trying to overthrow the government with a chemical weapon attack. the president reaffirmed use of those weapons in syria would be a game-changer. the rebel coalition called the attack a reprehensible crime and the syrian embassador called on the world body to investigate saying, quote, the syrian government, if it has such weapons, will never use it against its own population. other top u.s. officials say they have no evidence anybody unleashed chemical weapons on a...