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It is, erin? >> pretty incredible when you think about the risks for the united states and around the world. >> thank you. thank you for watching as we get ready for the president's speech, of course, tomorrow september 11th we'll be joined by the chairman of the comity. right now it's time for right now it's time for anderson. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com erin, thanks. good evening evening. four themes we're told including delay in the march to military action to explore russia's proposal for ending the chemical weapons crisis. he'll not issue the full-throated war cry we expected ...

About what u.s. force can do and accomplish. i do think you see somebody who has gone through this process of sending men and women into harm's way, and wondering what it has accomplished, and i think that is what is informing his reluctance to involve himself in what everyone agrees is a very mirky, complicated situation that it's not clear if u.s. force will not result in a worse situation. nobody can guarantee that. i think that's one of the reasons we see the mixed messages from the white house. >> what we'll see tonight, anderson, is a president taking two roads at once, also, he's going ...

Shifted. >> it has. it brought russia slash syria to this position now. we're waiting to see whether it's serious and what they will say when it comes to the united natio nations. will russia agree to have the threat of force in that. >> putin says no? >> right, where does that leave us? i think that there is no question about that. the president needs to make absolutely clear which obviously he will in his speech that that is what he's going to go after continually if this diploma see doesn't work. he was obviously a politician but says knowing how this works, he was convinced in the g 20 mee...

Correspond dan correspond dant has a reality check. administration has to be walking in with eyes wide open. do you have a sense how realistic it might be? >> if sells force was a tough sale, selling this plan is equally as tough. you get six known sites, many more unknown sites. you know over the last several weeks because of the threat of force and the civil war, this government has been moving those chemical weapons around, and that's during peacetime, difficult enough. this is happening during a war. you got to keep inspectors going safe and the risk the rebels will go after the weapons, a...

Think about destroying those chemical weapons? >> it's hard. one of the things there has been a great amount of consensus on is the president bungled this. >> how about the threat of force? h has that played a positive role? >> the threat of force has been steady weakening -- >> no, it hasn't -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> that option remains on the table except there aren't votes on the table in congress. the president won't strike without the votes. the question is what, what are russia and syria doing? we don't know. it would have made more sense if russia and syria were responding to the t...