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Quickly he's going to really make a very tough criticism of the regime saying even though those weapons inspectors are on the ground, the administration has pretty already dismissed any conclusions they could make, saying the regime has stalled the inspectors, not really let them get the samples that they need. so really even as the team is on the ground, saying it's useless. but they're also going to say they are pretty sure that chemical weapons were used by the regime. this is an issue of international law. and that basically it has to be responded to. so i think he's going to talk about ho...

Awkward to all of a sudden find a chemical weapons stash in an area that's been under siege for such a very long time. but again, who knows? it's very difficult to tell at this point in time. there is no hard evidence, and the thing that's troubling about all of this, the longer all of this takes, the more difficult it will be to gather evidence. because while all of this is going on, there is still a big military operation under way by the syrian military. they are firing artillery into the same areas that were allegedly hit by that chemical attack the whole day, today and the whole day yeste...

Chemical weapons attack in the world since saddam hussein gassed his own people back in 1988. and looks like is the key phrase here. it's hard to prove. it is hard to tell conclusively when chemical weapons have been used especially if you are trying to tell from a distance. in that iraq case it took four years for experts to confirm that chemical weapons were, in fact, used then. physicians for human rights is one of the first groups to get into the site. they collected soil samples and tested them. the soil samples did show trace evidence of the elements that sarin gas breaks down into over ...

Damascus. i think it's about four miles away from the closest site where rebels say chemical weapons were used. u.n. teams are trying, negotiating with their syrian handlers to get access and to be allowed to visit and take soil samples and interview people to do their work. so far that has been unsuccessful. what we've been relying on are dozens of videos that have been posted by the rebels, posted by the members of the opposition. we've spoken to dock, to we've spoken to activists. they all paint or describe a fairly similar story that yesterday before sunrise around 2:00 in the morning a ba...

Syrian government. they are negotiating with syrian authorities but so far have not been able to reach those areas and do their experiments, collect soil samples, talk to survivors and medical personnel which is something that now 35 countries are demanding that they do. the syrian government, however, says there was no chemical weapons attack. that tlchbt been any chemical weapons attacks, that this is a fabrication by the syrian rebels to try to gain international support, gain sympathy, and to confuse those weapons inspectors holed up in damascus now. craig? >> richard, thank you so much. a...