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Know, handing over these weapons and we have to pursue it to the end. so it basically means, according to the critics, there is no more get rid of assad. assad step down. that's gone according to critics. >> vladimir putin is achieving two main objectives here. his main objectives were he wants to keep assad in power. well this ratifies assad's status because we have to deal with him. he has to let inspectors in. the second thing is these chemical weapons would not possibly fall in the hands of militants who might use them in chechnya and russia. this gets the chemical weapons either out of sy...

Monitors to these chemical weapon sites, which we know where most of them are, and secure them so that they can't be used by bashar assad and work out the procedures for keeping them under national control and the removal. we could do that immediately. no, i am very skeptical, very, very skeptical but the fact is you can't pass up this opportunity if it is one, but you've got to right away determine whether or not it's real or not. >> that's the question, is it real or not? there are a lot of other questions of course when it comes to disarming syria. joining us now is a cnn analyst david kay ...

>> we'll see how he is tonight. more on the legislative side of things. i spoke with bob casey, democrat of pennsylvania. senator, this alternative resolution you're working on, as i understand it, it would require passage of the u.n. security counsel of assad using chemical weapons ex seat a deadline to get rid of the stockpile and a military strike would be authorized if that deadline isn't met. what can you tell us? >> we're trying to do everything possible to make sure first and formost that the regime in syria and the russians know that we're going to continue to pressure them to come to ...

Chemical weapons, not the assad regime. that's a huge win for russia and they will keep pursuing that because that's what they really care about. >> fran, let me push back on that idea. you -- supporters of the obama administration would say look, president obama is getting -- could be getting exactly what he wanted all along. he didn't want to wade into the syrian civil war and clearly new york city fan of assad, he has always drawn the line as the use of chemical weapons and standing up internationally to maintaining that ban on chemical weapons and this, if it was followed through on, would...