ah, keep the beard. >> you never know what is watching. during this segment. the longtime notre dame coach called in. said be listen, these guys are getting compensated in a lot of different ways. they're walking away with plenty. >> all right. time to wrap it up. >> i got pixies playing in new york. >> where? >> bower ballroom i believe. >> we're going to be there. >> the show's over. >> phoenix coming this fall. >> phoenix, vampire weekend. >> steely dan back. >> the dan going to go back up to the fabulous beacon. >> absolutely right. >> hey, if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." save or shave? tweet us. let us know. now stick around. luke russert is up straight ahead with "the daily rundown." road to a resolution. as president obama arrives in russia for the g-20 summit. tension over syria is thick. the meetings host, president

putin, argues against action. more classified briefings today aimed to shape the debate back here at home. also this morning, senator mcconnell is campaigning hard to keep his job. it's not just a battle of democratic foe allison grimes. we'll talk to the man bringing the fight on the right, republican primary challenger matt bevan. plus, student athletes make millions of dollars for their colleges coast to coast but they don't make a single cent for themselves. has the time come for a big change right? the author of "time" magazine's brand-new cover story out this morning is here. he'll talk to us. good morning from washington. it's thursday, september 5th, 2013. this is "the daily rundown." i'm luke russert in for chuck todd who is traveling with the president and will join us in just a minute. this hour, the two-day summit of the world's 20 largest economies known as the g-20 officially gets under way in russia. bracing for an awkward

confrontation with russia's president vladimir putin president obama landed in st. petersburg this morning. a meeting between the two planned, but scrapped after russia granted temporary asylum to nsa leaker edward snowden. instead, president obama spent wednesday in sweden where he admitted u.s./russia relations have hit a wall. >> where our interests overlap, we should pursue common action. where we've got differences, we should be candid about them. try to manage those differences but not sugarcoat them. >> the real sticking point between the u.s. and russia is syria. and it will dominate what was supposed to be an economic summit. the president met moments ago with the prime minister of japan. >> i also look forward to having an extensive conversation about the situation in syria and i think our joint recognition that the use of chemical weapons in

syria is not only a tragedy but also a violation of international law that must be addressed. >> on tuesday, putin called claims that syrian president assad used chemical weapons absolutely absurd. on wednesday, he went much further in comments to his own human rights council. calling secretary of state john kerry a liar. after kerry denied al qaeda was fighting alongside syrian rebels. after saying in 2012 syria's use of chemical weapons would cross a, quote, red line, the president now says the international community's credibility is at stake. >> update us on your latest thinking on where you think things are in syria and in particular whether you envision using u.s. military, if simply for nothing else, say, chemical weapons. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime but also to other players on the ground that

a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons being utilized. that would be the catalyst. i didn't set a red line. the world set a red line. the world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the population said the use of chemical weapons is be an hairant and set it, even when engaged in war. congress ratified that treaty. >> chuck is live in st. petersburg where he's traveling with the president. we should also mention, we're in the middle of the g-20 arivals. quite a ceremony. i believe that is the president of the united states pulling up in his cadillac with the russian flag out front. this is a great photo op.

gets out. takes a picture with putin in front of the logo there. this is remarkable. there is -- >> as warm as the relationship is going to look. >> so here he is. okay, that's the secret service agent. gets out of the front. obviously the president does foot open his own door. comes out of the beast. and let's see how this goes for the photo op. the embrace. is there one? no. straight handshake. how's the weather? >> but smiles. but smiles. >> smiles. >> you're there in russia. obviously, it's not just -- >> wow, that's about -- >> go ahead. >> no, i'll just say -- i know we have the satellite gap so i'll apologize. i shouldn't have stepped on you. turns out i was getting the live feed. you were getting a delay on the feed itself. as you saw there, that's

probably as close of an exchange of words as we'll see between the president and putin for this two-day summit. you talk to -- there is no plans on either side. a couple of days ago, there was some thought they maybe would have an unofficial, pull aside meeting. that's diplo-speak. or they might meet for 15 minutes on the side. maybe aides would meet a bit on the side. that's unlikely to happen. number one, neither side has initiated saying let's try to do this for the cameras. neither side believes -- both sides it's pointless to pretend they get along. they don't. but they do want to project this idea that they're able to do business together. and so simply showing up to the g-20 and doing the prefunktry meetings is one thing. second, putin's the host leader. and at the end of the day, he's got 18 other folks besides the president of the united states that he's got to pay attention to. so he actually is -- when you're the host leader you're a lot

busier. you've got a lot more things to do at these summits. then when you're simply a visiting dignitary. so there is some -- may sound like an excuse, luke, but there is some legitimacy to the russian side of the excuse that putin doesn't have a lot of time. >> and, chuck, this is more than the u.s. is trying to sell russia on syria, which they've obviously had problems with. china has not been very excited about any kind of military action by the u.s., neither has india, not a lot of international allies part of that g-20 summit. the president has a diplomatic lobbying job on his hands today. >> well, you know, if you think about -- look at how difficult wednesday was for the obama administration on capitol hill. well, the president's got his own difficulty with these g-20 leaders. yes, great britain is rhetorically on the president's side. japan is rhetorically on the

side of the president. that might mean some financial help. we know the french are with the united states. saudi arabia is. they're part of this g-20. australia. the president's been lobbying australia. i wouldn't be sush prirprised i end up being very supportive. i don't know if he can even get 50% of the g-20. at the end of the day, if he can recruit one or two others, it might help a little on the margins. of what matters now. that is con vibsing congress to do this. i'll tell you, yesterday did not go nearly as well as tuesday went. if you look at how everything is splintering. today, it seems to me, the focus appears to be almost solely on lobbying the left. the white house believing if they can convince a large majority of democrats to, you know, to go along with this, even if they're not happy about it, even if they were elected to be anti-iraq, anti-war members of congress, if they can get a

majority, a strong majority of democrats in the house, then the white house feels it can go back to boehner and say, i don't need a majority, but can you find me 80, can you find me 90 republicans. >> certainly something to keep an eye on. the arm twisting. home and abroad. chuck todd from st. beatersburg, russia. thank you. majority leader harry reid will briefly convene the senate tomorrow. paving wait for a vote on the syria resolution next week. on wednesday a sharply divided senate foreign relations committee narrowly voted to authorize the president's use of force in syria. five republicans and two liberal democrats voted against it. massachusetts senator ed markey who holdings his seat because of kerry's appointment to secretary of state, he voted present. democrats weary of another iraq war hammered the administration with questions at a wednesday hearing. >> not a one member in my district in south carolina or the e-mails of people that have

contacted my office say go to syria and fight this regime. to a letter, they say no. >> mr. kerry, you have never been one that's advocated for anything other than caution when involving u.s. forces in past conflicts. >> i volunteered to fight for my country. that wasn't a caution thius thi do when i did it. >> mr. secretary -- >> i am going to finish, congressman, i am going to finish. when i was in the senate, i supported military action in any number of occasions. including grenada, panama. i can run a list of them. >> i want to make sure that you promise us that you're telling the truth. >> having members of the syrian opposition said they don't want an attack, isn't that true? >> no, i've not heard that. >> for last nbc's kacie hunt joins us. welcome. this was a fascinating vote on the senate foreign relations committee. it's kind of gone through these fault lines which we've seen now with these recent compromises.

mccain, bob corker sort of on one side. barrasso, the more conservative republicans. picked up some more liberal voices. chris miurphy coming up against this hard core. a very skeptical group of lawmakers. 50/50 at best. most likely a week away from a vote. >> that's what they're telling me at this point. even in the senate, there are some questions about how this vote's going to fall out. at the end of the day, precedent tells us the votes will probably be there. the administration at this point still has work to do. especially among democrats who say, you know, hey, i wasn't elected to go to war. and there's a significant push for the president to do some sort of oval office-style address. where he sits down and explains to the american people, why are we doing this? the calls that are coming into these offices are just overwhelmingly negative. they're getting thousands of calls. no one is calling and saying,

hey, yes, i think we should go into syria. >> the moral imperative calls. you raise a good point. which is the fact we've heard on the hill is we get all these calls against it, against it, against it. we're always skeptical. anyone who's calling members of congress is usually more involved than your average joe. to that point, how much has the administration failed to sell the affected rationale? after every classified briefing, we hear, i need more information, i need more information. i still have a lot of questions. how much more do you think they need to do on the hill? >> at this point, remember, the bulk of congress still isn't back. even while we saw a pretty good turnout over the weekend, there have been briefings throughout the week. most members are still back in their districts. where you saw the movement, say, on the senate foreign relations committee, are among the members who are getting everything laid out. remember, the questions just aren't limited to are we going

to put combat troops on the ground or not. it's what happens next. what is your plan to figure out what happens after we strike. who are the rebel groups? who will we be helping. how closely tied are they to al qaeda? and those are questions that members can really only answer in classified settings. that's the one topic than secretary of state kerry kept kicking into the next classified hearing. there are many, many, many members of congress that haven't had a chance to ask those questions yet. >> it's going to be absolutely fascinating in pelosi, boehner and cantor line up behind a vote that reid and most likely mcconnell support and it could be the story of the century. kasie hunt, thank you. president obama argued a limited strike is needed . with momentum building, what would air strikes look like? what could they accomplish? nbc's jim meaceda joins us now

from turkey. what would these air strikes look like if they go into action? >> hi, luke. that's right, a few weddings going on today. still, the people are feeling increasingly fearful about what they think is really going to happen in the days ahead. in terms of what military experts told us, we should expect the strikes to be short. it's limited action. as short as a day or two. perhaps three. we should expect to see dozens of sea to shore cruise missiles in the very first stages. likely striking command and control headquarters. that's a long phrase for air bases. where the assad chemical weapons arsenals are. also, the air defense systems that surrounds and protect those bases will be taken out. but probably not the chemical weapons themselves. as it would just be too difficult to control them. control collateral damage. other potential targets we've

been told, as many as 150 or 200 are on the list. that list is changing all the time. likely to see military airports and missile sites being taken out. basically, the means of delivering those chemical weapons. now, assad has had plenty of time to adjust. we have reports for instance that he's hiding away artillery. heavy weapons. even soldiers in residential areas including schools and houses. but u.s. commanders still say they're confident that these strikes will seriously disrupt assad's chemical weapon capability. but this is only meant to weaken assad militarily. it's not meant to kill him. it's not meant to topple him. we've heard this argument. with thousands of foreign fighters and al qaeda-linked jihadis inside syria filling that vacuum, the outcome could be even worse. so there is, it seems, a political strategy behind the military intervention. and it's been explains to me as this.

striking at assad's chemical weapons should -- or systems, i should say, should to some extent slow down the recent momentum that his forces have been gaining on the battlefield. reinforce the stalemate, if you will. and then hopefully get both sides to return to the negotiating table. but with luke, there's nothing predictable on a battlefield. even today, iran's supreme leader warned the united states would suffer losses. that's a quote. if it intervened in syria. luke, back to you. >> jim maceda from turkey, thank you. the republican leader in the senate is facing a tough primary campaign in his home state of kentucky. we'll go one on one with mcconnell's republican rival. later, a former president takes the lead in the defense of the current president's health care law. first, a look ahead at today's politics planner. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. 9:00 a.m., national zoo reveals the baby panda gender.

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senate republican leader mitch mcconnell -- oh, sorry, there's the panda. the panda is a girl. we can announce that. i'm sorry about that. i came in right with the politics. the panda's obviously more important. this is breaking news from the national zoo here in washington. officials say there the 2-week-old giant panda cub is a girl. she's described as being healthy and active. we're so happy about that. senator republican leader mitch mcconnell got his shares of shachallenges in washington e syria, health care reform and the budget. he's got challenges back home. he's facing two political

opponents. democratic candidate allison lund renn grimes and matt blevin. he is trying to knock mcconnell out in the gop primary. since bevan entered the race in july, the two men have traded multiple attack ads. bevan labeling mcconnell a career politician. keep in mind, it's rare for races to get this ugly this early. the kentucky gop primary won't take place until next may. matt bevin joins me now. thank you for being on the program. >> pleasure to be here. >> mitch mcconnell has not staked out his position on syria. a lot of people are chalking that up to the fact that you are challenging him. if you were in the senate now what would you do on the issue of syria? >> i'd question whether he's taking any position. his actual lab of leadership on

any number of fronts. i would be adamantly opposed to any intervention militarily in syria at this time. >> why is that? >> because we have no business being there. what would be the purpose? weem made it very clear we don't intend for there to be regime change, and yet we're going to launch missiles into a country, rearrange their infrastructure, kill people, many of them will be innocent people, for what purpose? what is the military purpose? what is the end goal? what are we looking to accomplish? there's absolutely no end game in mind. >> one thing i found fascinating, you've been a big advocate of this idea that the government should shut down if the president's health care law, that is the law of the land now -- >> i'm not an advocate of that. >> that's what mike lee's plan is. you said you want to stand with mike lee -- >> it's not mike lee's plan. >> i read -- >> what mike lee has said and what i agree with is the idea that everything should be funded in the continuing resolution.

except obama care. the cr should be passed. minus the funding of this. that should be taken through to the senate. from the house to the senate. >> but the idea is you would hold support of continuing resolution if the president's health care law was funded. which would not have the votes provided for the government to run, correct? >> it is a call to pass the cr minus the funding. and then put that in the president's court. let the president make the decision as to whether or not he's going to take a piece of legislation. >> how could that be democratic control of the senate though? >> let the democrats take control of that. i call that bluff. i don't think it's wise to shut down the government. i'm not advocating that. i don't want to speak for him. we're talking about funding everything except for obama care. obama care is unbelievably unpopular. it's not wanted by the american people. it's not wanted by unions. it's not wanted by employers. it's not wanted by the individuals.

>> part of politics is the practical. obviously the president is not going to veto his own health care law. the democratic controlled senate -- that's his entire -- >> then let him own it. >> he already does own it. that's what he was elected on. the supreme court validated it. >> i truly believe he would blink on this. i really do. i think it would be unadvisable to force this down the american people's throat. >> i want to talk about something i find fascinating with you is you very much position yourself as this sort of tea party candidate, this anti-government guy. you know, you're very much opposed to bailouts. you had a bell company in east hampton, connecticut, that was struck by lightning and burned to the ground and you sought money from the state of connecticut. >> correct you on three things. i'm not positioning myself as a tea party guy. i'm running as a republican. >> you do not have the endorsement from the tea party -- >> i have any number of endorsements. >> the madison project? >> fantastic. i appreciate these endorsements.

>> you do not want to be the tea party candidate? >> i'm a republican. i'm running in a republican primary. >> are you a tea partier? >> i'm never been a member of a tea party. >> okay. >> i never went to any tea party meetings. although i am fiscally very much of like mind, grateful for and appreciative of the support of anybody no matter what group. >> your bell company, you got $100,000 from connecticut. a picture of you with senator blo blumenthal. you're both ringing a bell. >> do you know any senators from connecticut that would not be considered fairly liberal? the fact is, i take exception with your comment that i sought this out. it was the state who sought out the position that they wanted to help this company. and they did it based on their people. the constituents of connecticut asking the state to do something. >> so isn't your criticism of mitch mcconnell, who is seeking the bailout after the economy collapsed? isn't that sort of --

>> did the people of the united states ask to bail out the wall street banks? did you and i get together and rally and ask congress to save these wall street banks so we can protect those big seven figure bonuses? did we ask to bail out fannie mae and freddie mac? we didn't. it's a very, very different instance. that was 700-plus billion dollars of our money used to bail out people who had been irresponsible. what you're talking about is a $100,000 matching grant from the state of connecticut given by the state to a company at the request of the people of that state to save this company -- >> so you have no problem then, you don't see any hypocrisy -- >> there's no correlation. matching a state grant. anyone who hasser been in business and knows anything about the -- >> that's basic tenet of government, isn't it? >> -- would not correlate a matching grant with a bailout, there's not any equivalent -- >> it shows you're willing to receive funds from government.

if you're a small business guy. you're attacking mitch mcconnell for being part of this 30-year government machine sucking at the public trough. you're willing to do that when it benefits your business and it benefit ps the people of that town. >> the benefit to this business was almost negligible. it was $100,000 forgivable grant for which i'm personally liable. if i don't create 12 permanent jobs, keep them permanently there, then i personally am responsible to pay it back. there's no correlation whatsoever to taking money and pouring it into the pockets of companies that then, in turn, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars funding mitch mcconnell's campaign. >> last question, you're a business man, obviously, in kentucky. in the 2009 louisville mayor race, you donated to the democratic and to the republican. >> i did. >> you donated to a democrat and a republican. that epso seems to be a washin thing to do. a lot of lobbyists donate to both sides because then they have each horse in the race. for someone who's running against washington, who's

running against money in politic that whole idea of control, is that not hypocritical, to donate to two sides in a mayor race? >> i donated to each of them in their respective primaries. they are both businessmen i respect. both personal friends. people who had the capacity to be effective leaders. i want ed each of them to be the winner of their general primary. in the general election, i only gave to the republican. he's the only one who supported. what's hypocritical is when you support both horses in the same race. i've never given money to a democrat who was running against a republican. never done it. >> last thing, some of the polls show you 40, 50 points down. we still have a fair amount of time. what is your sell point moving forward you can sort of flip this thing and make this thing competitive? >> this is going to be one of the grassroots. mitch mcconnell can release any number of internal polls. i can probably get people to do an internal poll that will look compellinging for me.

the fact is we're nine months out at this point. we have a long way to go. it's a grassroots game. i'm now showing up at places where people are turning out, you know, 100, 150 people in meetings that typically would have 20 or 30 people. there is excitement. there's enthusiasm. people want a change. they're tired of people that are missing in action on amnesty, on bailouts, on syria. et cetera. >> debate you? >> i would love it. i think he's afraid. >> the challenger to mcmcconnell on the republican side. more from capitol hill in a moment as leaders debate the possibility of military action in syria. what will that mean for issues like immigration and the debt ceiling? are they simply on the back burner? and later, as football season kicks, we look into the ncaa money machine. the athletes that fuel it and what they get in the end. but first, today's trivia question. before joe biden, which two senators served nonconsecutive types as chairs of the senate foreign relations committee?

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with syria controlling the narrative in d.c., big issues like the debt ceiling debate, the budgeted an health care are taking a back seat. with less than a month before enrollment begins in health care exchanges, the white house dispatched former president bill clinton yesterday to urge bipartisan support of the law. >> i have agreed to give this talk today because i'm still amazed at how much misunderstanding there is about the current system of health care. >> but will this effort be overlooked while the nation's focus is elsewhere? let's bring in today's gaggle, michelle bernard, president of the bernard center for women's in politics. welcome. thank you so much for being on the show. fascinating. we have spent all summer with these issues president obama had to deal with in the fall.

the idea of immigration, funding the government, the debt limit. all seems to be getting washed away now by syria. which is going to be in the forefront for at least the next few weeks, right? >> it is a deadline that's coming up. people are going to start enrolling. because the administration has experienced a couple of hiccups, you know, some delays that the administration has to put in place, because they were simply not ready to start enforcing some parts of the law, i think makes it all the more important for someone with, you know, this kind of star power. to go out to a state like arkansas where we obviously have a very important senate and a governor's race coming up in 2014 to sell this for the administration. >> and it's fascinating. you have bill clinton out there the. which any other day of the week would have been the lead story. but syria is hanging over it. >> it is going to hang over just the way we saw what happened

with the invasion of iraq. it becomes the biggest story of the news. for a lot of good reason. people have 9/11 on their minds. people are wondering, are we going to end up in war? i think quite frankly national security issues always are going to trump issues of domestic policy. >> i would add there's a lot more going on on affordable care act than any one day of coverage. whether it's president clinton or anything else. you have people out in the streets, around the country, signing people up at fairs, going door to door. you have television ads. people working online to reach younger people and the uninsured. a different population than folks who are watching coverage of syria day to day. there's a lot more than just the speech yesterday which did get coverage to encourage enrollment and keep this in the news. >> it's certainly facing an uphill battle. when we've seen the law. it is the law of the land. the president is getting some

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the hook for millions of dollars every year. at the heart of the fight is this question, should senate athletes get paid? called for congress to investigate college athletics. he accused the ncaa of holding absolute control over student athletes. former players have filed a class action suit claiming they should get a cut of some of the millions of ncaa makes off using their likenesses in video games and merchandise. 81% of the ncaa revenue was from tv and marketing rights. that amounted to about $705 million. just last year. 11% of the other revenue was from tickets and team merchandise. one of this year's biggest moneymakers could be texas a&m quarterback johnny manziel. he got into trouble for signing autographs. the ncaa didn't want brokers to make money off his signature. so the league suspended him for the first half of last saturday's season opener.

the ncaa admits manziel did not make any money on the signatures but they sold his jersey online for $64. the latest issue of "time" magazine asserts it's time to pay college athletes. joining me now is the author of that story, the great man, "times" shawn gregory. thank you for joining us. >> no problem, luke, thanks. >> we have a system now, the ncaa, which is clearly money driven. they get a scholarship in return. they should just be happy to be there. and you know what, they shouldn't be paid at all. >> well, three things. the first is the escalating numbers of revenues. if you lock at the trend line, over the last decade for

example, the ncaa and the bowl championship series. the revenues went from $300 million in '02 to something in the neighborhood of $850 million in 2010. those revenues are going to keep going up. you think about as you mentioned the new television deals that have been signed. conferences and schools starting their own television networks. realignment to capitalize on money. the college football playoff coming up is going to drive more demand for television rights. so those numbers are going to keep going up and up and up. during all this, the labor costs has been capped at the value of the scholarship. so you've got one line going up, one line flat lining. and how long can we go on with this? the other thing is the manziel case kind of brought this to bear. it was interesting. the question when it came out he might have gotten money for autographs was not, oh, my god, he broke the rules, but why shouldn't he get money for

autographs? seems like there was a public opinion change. and the owe bannon case, suing about video game likenesses. television revenues. it's a question of what's going to change? are the schools going to rewrite the rules or are the courts and congress going to rewrite the rules? >> it is certainly antitrust questions. one thing that's fascinating in this discussion is you have a lot of people saying what about the olympic standard? why can't we do that? athletes can make money off sponsorships if they're able to. that way, you don't get into the whole yiidea of having to pay everybody. >> that is a real interesting alternative. because it takes the burden off the school in a way. the schools want to say we're all about quote/unquote amateurs and student athletes. money is bad. which you could argue that's a faulty argument. if johnny manziel has value in a free marketplace where other

peep want to give him money, why shouldn't that happen? that happens in the olympics. 20 or so years ago, the olympics said why should we restrain valuable athletes from making money? michael phelps gets hundreds of millions of dollars in sponsorships. and other swimmers don't. it really doesn't destroy the team usa camaraderie or anything like that. certainly hasn't destroyed the popularity of the olympics. so i think that's a real alternative on the table. you can really make a case for that. >> one thing i found fascinating when researching this issue extensively is the creation of the ncaa was purely for energy gain. walter buyers when he created it back in the '40s, it was essentially done in the beginning to get away from workmans comp claims. this idea if we put the student athlete -- a recreational student activity, then we can't be sued if they get a concussion. the ncaa from its beginning has

always been about money. can you talk about that, how it's been about for schools to profit. it has never been this idea of just enriching student's lives. enriching students' lives. it's been a money maker. >> sure. if you look at the hypocrisy, they say we care. there are commercials out there about their teenagers. how can you care so much about student athletes when you're restraining them from making money at a time when for a lot of them they are not going to be more valuable. not every football and basketball player is going to the nfl. there's a pure hypocrisy there. >> i'd love to talk to you some time about how folks get injured and lose their scholarships but we don't have enough time. thank you. >> thank you. which two senators served

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let's bring back michelle bernard and margie omero. pope francis sending a letter to putin saying that there should be a political solution to this. what type of sort of impact do you think this would have on members of congress at all and do you think it makes any difference instead of these fault lines that we've been seeing so far? >> you know, i don't think it's going to make a bit of difference.

members of congress know what they want to do. i hope that they would be asking themselves, everybody wants peace in syria. and the question i saw posed elsewhere that i think is a fantastic question is being pro-peace does that mean being pro-assad if in fact he's responsible for the death by chemical warfare? >> right. i think regardless of whether you're a jewish member of congress and regardless of what religion you're coming from, i think an assault on human rights is an assault on human rights and the president has been speaking out and making clear that he believes that it's been an assault on human. >> i'm just a facts kind of person. i don't feel like we should impose on jewish members or other members to publicly integrate their personal observance with how they are thinking about syria. >> shameless plugs, start us off. >> happy new year to my jewish

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as the president welcomed president obama in st. petersburg. this is the first face-to-face contact since president obama called off their one on one meeting last month. they only exchanged words but putin called secretary of john kerry a liar and continued to denounce military action in syria without u.n. support. but syria has already come up in the president's meeting with japan's prime minister. >> i also look forward to having an extensive conversation about the situation in syria and i think the chemical use of weapons in syria is not only a tragedy but a national situation that needs to be addressed. >> there's going to be another classified briefing on syria and it looks like monday will be the first full vote in senate because the authorization for military action just squeaked by in a close committee vote