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To have a meeting like that with putin and have a basic disagreement over who said what to whom about key issues like this is extraordinary not to have a note taker or any kind of record. >> well, you have the secretary of state, the president of the united states, and the secretary of state was undercut by the president. >> there is, of course, a -- a translator or who can reconstruct in some sense what was said from their notes. i think it was a constructive meeting. they made progress on syria. a lot of the concerns that people had that they might swing for the fences and trump might be tak...

Obama and russian president putin met. it was a very brief meeting. let's watch. >> have you made progress on syria? >> yes, we waited all day for that. today at the united nations, president obama called syria's leader a tyrant and reiterated that bashir assad has to go. >> his allies can't simply pacify the security of a broad nation that have been brutalized by chemical weapons and indiscriminate bombing. yes, the real issue dictates a compromise will be required to end the fighting and ultimately stamp out isis. but realism also requires a managed transition away from assad and into a new ...

Be iran's domestic politics, where hardliners -- president rowhani may have been playindicating those hardliners when he singled out israel's nuclear weapons. >> translator: israel, the only nonparty to the nonproliferation treaty should join there, too, without any further delay. >> reporter: four years ago the u.s. and iran were discussing a deal with many of the same elements, including shipping iran's enriched uranium to be converted into a form usable only for research and not for a nuclear weapons. >> in 2009, four years ago ed major players in geneva talking about many of the same compo...

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President obama continues lobbying in russia and here at home for a military response in syria. >> russia, china and european union remain unpersuaded. they say it is too soon for an attack. the president faces a tough challenge in congress. abc's karen travers joins us now with more. karen. >> reporter: good morning, john. good morning, diana. the g-20 summit in russia focuses on the economy but it was inevitable that syria would creep into the agenda. president obama is facing significant skepticism from world leaders there and law makers here in washington. right now president obama is a al...