weapons inspector, charles duelfer; plus, margaret warner in egypt; jeffrey brown on the photography of war; and shields and brooks preview president obama's address to the nation.

to walk us through we turn to charles duelfer, a top u.n. weapons inspector in iraq during the 1990s, after the u.s. invasion in 2003, he led the c.i.a.'s iraq survey group which continued to look for weapons of mass destruction. he's author of "hide and seek: the search for truth in he's author of "hide and seek: the search for truth in iraq." >> thank you. >> first the question, what does it mean to hand over chemical weapons? what happens physically? who does it? >> well, the process would be, presumably, set out by it security council where they put the burden of proof and the burden of doing these things on the syrian government. so they would constitute a group of weapons inspectors but the burden of showing where the weapons were and accounting for them would be on the syrian government. they would show the weapon inspectors where they were, how many they had and the weapons inspectors would have to verify the veracity of that. >> if that's the case and based on experience, what kind of ground rules, because you think about what could

to walk us through all this we turn again to charles duelfer, a top u.n. weapons inspector in iraq during the 1990s. after the u.s. invasion in 2003, he led the c.i.a.'s iraq survey group, which continued to look for weapons of mass destruction. he's author of "hide and seek: the search for truth in iraq." >> thank you. >> first the question, what does it mean to hand over chemical weapons? what happens physically? who does it? >> well, the process would be, presumably, set out by it security council where they put the burden of proof and the burden of doing these things on the syrian government. so they would constitute a group of weapons inspectors but the burden of showing where the weapons were and accounting for them would be on the syrian government. they would show the weapon inspectors where they were, how many they had and the weapons inspectors would have to verify the veracity of that. >> if that's the case and based on experience, what kind of ground rules, because you think about what could go wrong and how to do it right, what kind of ground

joining me is charles duelfer, a former chemical weapons inspector in 2003.hat do you make of the response by the assad regime and the reaction from the obama administration? >> well, so far so good. remember how far we have come in two weeks. they were talking about a military strike, albeit limited, to address the problem of syrian's chemical weapons. it looks like the russian's have moved forward on this. last week lavrov by inspections. he's the only person who probably could have done that. because he knows the syrians and nose the disarmarmant process. so far, so good. i would point out that the russian's appear to be keeping the syrian on this. >> assad has a history of delay and lying. the russians have been known to delay on those kinds of issues. given assad and the russians, how confident that we can beat this timetable to destroy syria's chemical weapons stockpile by the middle of next year? >> chris, one, the syrians have had chemical weapons for decades. they have some capacity on their own to destroy old and aging munitions. secondly, there's g

for some insight on that, we turn once again to charles duelfer, a former u.n.who also led the c.i.a.'s iraq survey group. back to the newshour. >> now, help me with this. this framework allows for all of these weapons to be secured, removed by mid 2014. how would that work? >> the framework does one key thing. it puts the burden on the government in damascus. thank you are the ones to declare what they have. they are obligated to concentrate the weapons in locations as termed by the weapons inspectors. the task of the weapons inspectors is to verify what the syrians have declared. that's key transactional flow there. >> and putting the burden on the government in damascus, is everybody completely dependent on as sought to tell the truth about where the weapons are? >> no. one remarkable thing came out of geneva and hat is that second kerry said their assessment about the inventory was quite similar so when syria takes the first step in the next few days of offering up a declaration of what they have, we will have a quick indication of whether it comports with w

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>> brown: when you say "nitty-gritty" earlier this week i talked to former weapons inspector john duelfer, and he talked about the importance of such things as who decideses which sites can be inspected and whether the inspectors can talk to anybody-- scientists over there soo or whether weather those are withheld. do you think they're at that level of negotiation at this point? >> i don't think so. they've been here two days, and it's difficult to elaborate basically a year's worth of arms control agreement in two days. but what i expect is they'll enunciate some general principles. for example, secretary kerry wants the syrians to turn over data on their chemical weapons stock right away instead of waiting up to 60 days under the terms of the treaty. i think there will be some important principles laid down. but it would also be my expectation that there would be a lot of this additional work to be done. and as you just pointed out, cheating by the assad regime is going to be a major concern. i mean, how can the west really know that he's declared all of his stocks and he hasn't hidden

there is a viewing by c-span and please join me in thanking charles duelfer for his presentation today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] taking you now to new york city where the u.n. security council is about to meet discuss and possibly vote on a resolution to set guidelines for removing chemical weapons from syria. it was announced yesterday that five the council's permanent members including the u.s. and russia had come to an agreement on a resolution and it's now going to be brought before the other members of the security council for consideration. reuters has a story on a resolution saying the major sticking point up to this point was russia's opposition to enforce compliance with the threat of sanctions or military force. the article goes on to say the draft resolution makes the measure for removing weapons legally binding but provides no automatic enforcement of syria fails to comply. instead the security council would have to draft a second resolution and we will take a look now inside the room. the security council meeting and watch as they all come together. just take a