ben wedeman is standing by in jordan. nick, i want to start with you right now because you spent a good deal of time reporting from russia. vladimir putin has been dead set against any u.s. intervention in syria. fringely, the russians have been quite supportive of the syrian regime here. how big of an obstacle has the russian leader been to u.s. intention there's? >> well, he's completely stymied all resolutions of the u.n. security council. their veto has been moved to make sure his moves never really get passed the u.n. security council. he's been militarily providing support. the russians say they're just fulfilling old arms contracts rather than bringing new ones in even today he says that claims assad could use chemical weapons was utter nonsense. he's very vocal about this. two real reasons. hostility still in his mind from the united states and the old cold war and kgb. but also there's the fact that syria's been in the arab world russia's stalwart ally and they see this as the erosion of their influence, their ab

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