jill dougherty is getting more information for us, as well. what else are you picking up, jill?e of the dilemmas here is if you really go all the way, if the president goes all the way and says it's a coup, it's bringing them into the diplomatic mess that they have been trying to stay out of. so the pressure is to hold back and not define it. so there may be a way that the president expresses his anger doesn't go that far. because no matter which side you take, if you say it's a you coup, it angers the's not a cou angers the morsi supporters. and with 225 people dead and thousands injured, you simply have to do something. so what are the pressure points? pressure points remain as you pointed out the military training exercises and then also all the way to that $1.3 billion. and still they know in the white house very well that if you pull the plug on money, it creates very serious problems in the economy. and do not forget of course that egypt is very, very important with israel. it is one of the arab states that has a peace agreement with israel. even in the beginning when peop

jill dougherty is standing by at the white house and, jill, i want to ask you a couple questions here. first of all, we heard from the president. he says no doubt the assad regime used chemical weapons on its own people here. he will be briefing members of congress later in the evening. what do we expect to hear from the president today? >> well, we may not hear anything specifically publicly. this, they have presented at least they have this intelligence estimate, this i should say intelligence report that musters whatever evidence they have that the regime as they would argue did use chemical weapons. they're presenting that to the members of congress. this would be presumably a classified report, and then it is unclassified for the public, and we have been promised that will come out this week. so today is thursday. one more day after this. then they have to decide what to do. suzanne, that's where it gets more complicated because every minute they have to be -- if there is to be a military response, they have to be analyzing what is going on in syria, where are the regime troops,

but as jill dougherty reports. fear, uncertainty and anger.orter: the 2014 winter olympics in the black sea resort of sochi are president vladimir putin's biggest p.r. project yet. expected to be the most expensive olympics evermore than 50 billion dollars,but a new so-called "anti-gay propaganda" law has some worried that gay american athletes - or fans - could be arrested, fined and deported. the law makes it a crime to publicly acknowledge you're gay.provide information on homosexuality to minors.or publicly support equal rights for gays. >> johnny weir, u.s. figure skater: for me the olympics are the most important aspect of my life. they are the thing that made me johnny weir. >> reporter: openly-gay u.s figure skater johnny weir is against the new law but hopes to compete at sochi. >> johnny weir, u.s. figure skater: i think and believe really that our presence in russia will do nothing but help fight this law and help the lgbt community >> reporter: the gay rights group "all out". has launched a global campaign, urging pressure on the r

. >> cnn foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the white house. jill, the administration is briefing senators today, and it's from their -- they're briefing both sides of the aisle. >> we are understanding now from a white house official that that conference call will be taking place this afternoon, and it will be with the senate republican conference and the democratic caucus, and on that meeting will be all of the top officials of this administration, national security visor sadvised er susa admiral winfield and director of national intelligence clapper. they will all be on that call. this is all part of talking with the congress that we are referring to, not only the vges information, but also the rationale for taking whatever action the president wants to take. now, you mentioned president putin, and there is a lot of interesting stuff coming out. the latest is he is saying remember, he would speak to president obama as if he were and he is a nobel peace prize winner, and he said as that, he should remember that the united states has been invol

jill dougherty, cnn, washington. >>> startling comments from the sister of a man accused of killing and kidnapping her daughter, laura dimaggio tells piers morgan in a cnn exclusive that her brother james was quiet and dependable and incapable of the crimes police says he committed, including the murders of christina anderson and 8-year-old jason anderson. >> i looked at the hanna anderson that i saw three nights ago on the tv. it's certainly not the girl who sayed at my home three nights prior to them disappearing. >> what do you mean? what do you mean? >> i remember very vividly telling my brother, she's trouble. she's going to -- she's -- i said, you need to watch out for that one, she's trouble. >> laura dimaggio said her brother was a father figure to the anderson children, she believes what happened simply does not add up. >>> a former high school teacher in billings, montana, will serve just 30 days for raping a 14-year-old student who later committed suicide. stacey rambold was sentenced to 61 days in jail with 30 days of that. the girl's mother was in court and could not beli

i want to bring in jill dougherty. she's at the state department. jill, secretary kerry not mincing words. >> yes. and that may be the problem, brooke. he's not mincing words. he's using many of the same words they've used before. granted, it's a little bit more intense. deeply concerned, condemn the violence by both sides. oppose state of emergency, he said. violence will only lead to economic disaster. but he didn't go any further in saying will there be any consequences for the military and the government for taking these steps. let's listen to exactly what he said. >> today's events are deplorable. and they run counter to egyptian aspirations for peace, inclusion and genuine democracy. egyptians inside and outside of the government need to take a step back. they need to calm the situation and avoid further loss of life. we also strongly oppose a return to a state of emergency law. and we call on the government to respect basic human rights, including freedom of peaceful assembly and due process under the law. and we believe that the state of emer

jill dougherty is at the state department. we start with jessica yellin.ident barack obama will still be attending the g-20 summit in russia, but he won't be having these one-on-one talks with russian president vladimir putin. a major snub to russia, isn't it? >>. >> reporter: it sure is. it can only make relations between the two the men that much chillier. it's not warm to begin with. the white house says they began reviewing the summit in july and considering whether it made sense to do it or not. they have now informed russia the trip is off. clearly, it's because one important consideration was they could not come to terms on an extradition agreement for edward snowden or even some sort of wink and nod agreement whereby russia could extradite him for -- let him go to a second country which would then extradite him to the u.s. no progress there. and that was one knock against the summit. but in a statement, the white house also says some other contributing factors were a lack of progress between the two countries on issues including missile defense, ar

jill dougherty, thanks so much. at the white house. keep us posted. >>> let's go to new york where the lead u.n. weapons inspectors have arrived from syria. the team is carrying crucial cargo, data from the sites of those alleged chemical weapons attacks. these he can clue sif images from jfk airport upon that arrival. our nick paton walsh joining us right now from the united nations with the very latest. when might we hear publicly more details of the bags of evidence that were collected by these inspectors? >> reporter: well, we are supposed to hear from the u.n. spokesman in the next hour and a half or so, but it's no the quite clear how much we'll reveal. just to clarify, the samples taken from alleged chemical weapon attack sites in syria, they have now gone on a german foreign ministry charter plane from laeb lebanon to the hague in the netherlands where testing will take place. angela cane, who headed the u.n. inspections mission to syria, she's come back here to meet the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon. quite possibly that m

jill dougherty, thank you very much. russia hates the idea of u.s.on we're getting. turkey says that u.s. plans don't go far enough. >> its prime minister wants bashar al assad out and thinks that now is the time for a regime change. the crisis there, we've heard the numbers of how many people were killed. 1.4 million or more of refugees, getting worse by the day. how big a factor is that for turkish support for an attack on syria? >> reporte >> reporter: it certainly contributes, victor. 2,000 are living in camps. this is the border -- one of the border gates between turkey and rebel-controlled syria. there's a lot of just day-to-day traffic back and forth. some of these families we talked to are fleeing the war in syria. some saying they want to get out of the country before any possible u.s. military attack. there's also traffic going in. there's not a huge exexxoudus r now. they go fight the syrian government inside and many have told us they want the u.s. to bomb the syrian government. take a listen. >> if obama fight al assad and his government

joining me now, jill dougherty from the white house. good morning, jill. >> hey, carol.l, you know, if you look at the president's public schedule today, really only one thing and that is the speech later on today at the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, which, of course, doesn't have anything to do with syria. but behind the scenes, really intense activity. the latest is on the intelligence report that we are still expecting this week to be declassified and made public. and the latest on that is that a diplomatic source is telling cnn that it was israeli military intelligence that gave the information about what are called the signals intercepts. communications among senior military commanders in syria about the movement of chemical weapons and to the site where this alleged attack happened before it happened. so, that's a crucial bit of information. we still haven't seen that, obviously. but, that report we expect this week. then, the list of countries. you mentioned, that's the other front. the diplomatic front. having consultations with leaders around the

i want to bring in jill dougherty to explain, what is the difference. this is not permanent but temporary to allow the administration not necessarily agree or say it's a coup but almost act as if it is. >> you can see the problems here. it's not very well define and a lot of that is deliberate. the administration wants to send messages and be prepared to do something more because there's a lot of pressure building on capital hill to cut the aid to egypt. it doesn't want to overstep. it's not prepared and not going to define either a coup or not a coup. they are using the words reprogramming. another official said adjusting some of the aid. they are adjusting it to bring it in line with legal requirements for aid that the united states gives. then as they're studying, there's a very big evaluation of u.s. aid going on. they will be poised to cut the aid or continue. it would be more like cut. when they decide what they want to do. that would be done in conjunction with the congress. >> okay. jill, explain this to us. let's say they cut the aid and they e

. >> jill dougherty is outside the white house. errupt you in the briefing starts. we are moving, it seems to be, in a particular direction. anybody who has seen this sort of thing before and wonders how far down the road we are. >> they do. one of the key parts is the administration says they have the proof this was a chemical weapons attack, but who did it. the administration has little doubt that it was the regime of assad. we're waiting to find out when they might release this information that they have that would, we believe, according to what officials are telling us be the proof that would show that assad's people -- >> i'm going to interrupt you. we join the white house briefing. >> she's all anybody needs around here. the biggest brain in the shop. good afternoon. thank you for being here. i have no announcements to make at the top of this briefing. i'll go straight to julie pace. >> thank you. >> has the president made any decision in the last 24 hours or so on what the u.s. response to the syrian chemical weapons attack?

let's get some more from our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty.ome of the evidence that u.s. officials are pointing to for issuing this worldwide alert. >> right, wolf. well, you know, state department officials tell us they can't remember when state shut down as many diplomatic posts as this in the face of a potential terror attack. >> reporter: faced with intelligence that al qaeda in yemen was in the final stages of planning attacks, the state department took the unusual step of issuing a worldwide travel alert warning americans that al qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks. particularly in the middle east and north africa. in one of the most extensive announcements of its kind, it said it was temporarily closing this sunday 21 embassies and consulates in 17 countries. posts that normally are open sundays. they include yemen, libya, and saudi arabia. officials say they're taking the threat very seriously that the number of countries could increase, and the length of the closings could increase as well. officials

jill dougherty is live with that. y. there's a reason. right now the administration is undertaking a major review, full review of the aid that the united states gives to egypt. that, of course, is about $1.5 billion. what they are doing is not saying they are ending the aid. after all, the administration doesn't want to come down on either side at this point, so what they are doing is reprogramming while everything is under review. there's no decision, again, to permanently end it, but it avoids president obama having to take that step of saying is it a coup, isn't it a coup, which would then trigger a need, a legal necessity to end the aid. so again we're talking about $1.5 billion overall. most of that is in military aid. chris and kate? >> all right, jill, thank you very much for the reporting. a complicated situation, because you have such human causalities there and human rights issues on the ground, what you're going to do with the government, not easy to lead in these situations. >> not easy to lead and a murky

jill dougherty is at the state department. defense secretary chuck hagel delivered a strong response after the british vote rejecting military action. listen to this. >> every nation has responsibility to make their own decisions. we respect that of any nation. we are continuing to consult with the british as we are with all of our allies and partners. that consultation includes ways forward together on a response to this chemical weapons attack in syria. >> there is no doubt that the british decision not to go along with any activity has completely changed if you like the way this is viewed. >> a report will reveal it was assad's brother who ordered the chemical attack. if that is true, wolf, wouldn't that qualify add the syrian regime being directly responsible for this attack and possibly be that smoking gun that peek are looking for. >> they are willing going that far and release the audio conversation that may or may not be intercept ed if they're willing to release that audio tape and in the arabic so the whole world cou

. >> i want to bring in wolf blitzer and jill dougherty. jay said there's no doubt chemical weapons were used outside of damascus and little doubt that the syrian regime was responsible for that and they had the cape ability to deliver those. >> he did say that the intelligence report would be released. he said it could come this week. obviously, it could mean it still could come today or tomorrow. he did say this week. i think they're going through it. they're scrubbing it. they want to make sure that everything is rite. they don't want any blunders or no embarrassment that maybe some of the intelligence isn't accurate. they're going through that. i think they want to get all their diplomatic ducks in a row to make sure the nato allies are on woord. whoever is going to support the u.s. in whatever it does if it's la a limited cruise missile strike. they're working through the process. you heard jay carney say the president still consulting with his top national security advisors and world leaders. no final decision has been made. >> i want

. >> jill dougherty is our foreign affairs correspondent. she's at the white house this morning. so, is it possible that the president might call congress back from vacation? >> well, he could. in the meantime, he is consulting, there is a flurry of phone calls. there will be one, we understand this evening at 6:00 p.m. with the top members of congress and the top members of the committees to brief them on what the administration says it has in terms of intelligence and, also, to, as they have been, talking about the rationale and what should be done about it. that is really the question, carol. what do you do about it? you heard the president talking about these limited objectives. so, that's, that is a very important subject and it came up, also, from the united kingdom today. great britain talking about its rationale possibly for military action, as well. >> let's talk a little bit about the end game here because you heard judy woodruff ask the president, so, you bombed syria, but your goal is not to take out assad, right? so what then? >> well, number one and you hear them re

our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is here. she's a real expert on u.s.oing on? >> well, wolf, look, the rhetoric is really heating up. here's this one zinger from russian deputy prime minister who tweeted today the west handles the islamic world the way a monkey handles a grenade. >> reporter: there's no love affair between russian president vladimir putin and syrian president bashar al assad, but their countries have been in a tight embrace since soviet times. >> translator: the russian/syrian relationship is a historical relationship that goes back decades and is still continuing in this same momentum to this day. >> reporter: syria has been buying its military weapons from russia since assad's father ruled the country. and moscow is still fulfilling some of those soviet-era contracts. russia's naval facility in syria's port of tortuse is moscow's only remaining mediterranean repair spot for its ships. there are ties of blood. at least 25,000 russian women are married to syrians according to russian media. and ties of religion. the largest christian de

first i want to fwo to you, jill dougherty, our foreign affairs correspondent. because we have this intel report. we heard from the secretary of state this hour. i want you to just walk us through the new nuggets, the new details that we've now learned about the august 21 attack. >> reporter: you'd have to say the numbers, you're right, 1,429 killed including at least, the secretary said, 426 children. i was in that room when he was making this announcement, by the way. when he referred to the children, you could actually hear his voice quiver a little bit. then he outlined what they say is compelling evidence that this attack was planned. that the troops on the side of bashar al assad prepared themselves for a chemical attack by using gas masks. that after it was -- that it was very large. at least i believe he said 11 sites that they hit. and when it was over, worried that this would become well known very quickly because it hit the social media very fast, they began -- the syrian side began to shell that area. the u.s. would allege to destroy the evidence. so

but as jill dougherty reports.r, uncertainty an weekend i president obama proposes to tax reform in a plan he calls a grand bargain for the middle class. the president says he will agree to a plan that also if republicans work with him on spending. include spending for job growth, training and infrastructure. president obama is sending federal aid to rebuild west, fertilizer plant explosion. the obama administration initially denied the request. hundreds injured in the several homes and buildings were also damaged or destroyed. weather cam quick hit-scenic let's take a quick look outside this morning. let's check in with janu for your saturday forecast. scalpels either to look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ev

. >> i want to go to jill dougherty at the state department. what do people do?you need to do to protect yourself if you're traveling? >> you have to take this seriously as the people at the state department are doing. i totally agree with what dana is saying about benghazi. there's 21 places embassies and consulates around the world especially in those places africa and the northeast where this threat seems to be focused. what can people do? they can definitely be very, very cautious whether they travel to the region and if they do they should be very ware of their surroundings especially places where large groups congregate transportation hubs. they can also check on the website of the state department. that's a very good source. you can see the list of those 21 countries where this is happening. so updates and register with the state department if you want to do that. that would be the most important right now. >> are they going to be closing more embassies? do we think this will grow in hour s and days to come? >> this appears to be it. that depends on the th

but as jill dougherty reports. fear, uncertainty and anger. remains.014 winter olympics in the black sea resort of sochi are president vladimir putin's biggest p.r. project yet. expected to be the most expensive olympics evermore than 50 billion dollars, according to russian media. but a new so-called "anti- gay propaganda" law has some worried that gay american athletes - or fans - could be arrested, fined and deported. the law makes it a crime to publicly acknowledge you're gay.provide information on homosexuality to minors.or publicly support equal rights for gays. johnny weir, u.s. figure skater: for me the olympics are the most important aspect of my life. they are the thing that made me johnny weir. openly-gay u.s figure skater johnny weir is against the new law but hopes to compete at sochi. johnny weir, u.s. figure skater: i think and believe really that our presence in russia will do nothing but help fight this law and help the lgbt community the gay rights group "all out". has launched a global campaign, urging pressure on the russian governm

we have a team of reporters on this story, but let's begin with jill dougherty.orning, carol. you mentioned that intelligence report. we are told by u.s. officials that the plan is for -- to be released publicly today, and that would lay out the case for any type of military action that the president could order. now, what would be in that intelligent report? it will include, we're told, signal interception from the military, that would be communications among the syrian military. that is what the administration has been hinting at that it would be direct evidence that not only were chemical weapons used, but that they were used by the syrian regime. also that report, we're told, is expected to have forensic evidence. we've been reporting on that for a while. that could be tissue samples, other physical evidence that chemical weapons were used. then the next stop, you just heard from the defense secretary hagel, they are ready to carry out any type of order that the president would issue. we are also told by officials that this is expected, if there is an operati

jill dougherty is here. if you thought the u.s. was going to strike in the coming hours this weekend, indeed, in the fex fnext few days, not so . it's going to be at least september 9, a week from monday, when congress ends its break and gets back into session. >> we're getting the first reaction now. this is coming from the syrian national coalition spokesperson speaking from doha in qatar saying they were taken by surprise by president obama's decision, that there is great disappointment, and they fear, although they say yes, maybe it should, we'll wait and see how it goes in congress, but they're saying our fear now is that this lack of action could em bobolde the regime and they repeat the attacks in a more serious way, so we are quite concerned. you would have to say that's definitely an expected statement, because they really wanted some type of action immediately, very strong action, and already we're kind of critical of the president's limited objectives and limited strike that he was talking about. so that's the immediate

necessarily all of these affiliate groups, the supporting groups that have emerged since then, jill doughertyus, thank you. >>> questions are being raised about the obama administration's response to the latest terror threat. some applauded say insisting they're playing it safe. but others like the veteran journalist, ted koppel say the u.s. may routinely over-react to terrorism. writing in the "wall street journal," an opinion piece, he wrote this -- we have created an economy of fear, an industry of fear. a national psychology of fear. al qaeda could never have achieved that on its own. we have inflicted it on ourselves. ted koppel going on to say, nothing would give our terrorists enemies greater satisfaction than that we focus obsessively on the remote possibility and restrict our lives and liberties accordingly. let's talk about it with the former homeland secretary, michael churtoff. do you agree with ted koppel that we've done the work of al qaeda by creating this atmosphere of fear? >> i don't. i respect ted koppel as a journalist. but he never had the responsibility of having america

cnn foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department with details. ll, what are officials giving as the explanation for why these four are coming back? >> reporter: well, brianna, remember after benghazi and secretary kerry came in as secretary of state, he ordered a comprehensive review of those four people, three of who had been on administrative leave and the other had resigned his post. that includes eric boswell. he was the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security and charlene lamm, who is his or was his assistant secretary responsible for embassy security. so as they looked into the behavior and work during benghazi, they found secretary kerry agreed with what had been found by the independent accountability review board and that is that there was a lack of leadership, there was a lack of management ability, but they say no breach of duty. so secretary kerry has said they're not going to be fired but they will be assigned -- reassigned to new jobs. that drew a very angry response from daryl issa. he said instead of accountability the

joining us now is former moscow bureau chief jill dougherty, fareed zakaria and michael just wrote abouts putin's latest insult to obama. let's start with you, fareed. senator graham, and he's going to be joining us in the next hour, lindsey graham, says the u.s. now have a firm response to what the russians did. what do you think? >> i would tend to agree. putin did not need to do this. he seemed quite sensitive to the diplomatic importance of maintaining good relations with the united states. he seems to have decided at the end of the day, as far as can i tell, he's playing to a cheap nationalist pop later in russia. the russians do view snowden as a hero for taking on the big, bad united states. there is a scheduled summit at the end of the g-20 meeting. i think mr. obama should decide he has more pressing engagements at home and for unavoidable reasons not do it. in typical diplomatic fashion he should say it has nothing to do with snowden. >> he was supposed to go to moscow before the day before the start of the g-20 summit for a one-on-one with putin and then go to the g-20. now th

. >> let's bring in jill dougherty. both sides, i guess you could call it a conflict in egypt, they're blaming the united states. >> they are. it's very disturbing for the united states. after all, remember when they were trying to say is it a coup or isn't it a coup? the united states stood back and said best not to define it, let's stay out of it. let's keep both sides happy. but by staying out of it, they have angered both sides and being criticized. if they say it's a coup, it angers the military and pleases the people on the morsi side. if they say it's not, it polices the military, so they could win. dorgts forget senator mccain and gram went there. and said it is a coup so it's generating a lot of anger. >> what's at stake for the united states? >> number one it's a huge country, linchpin of the middle east. i think it boils down to terrorism and israel. israel back egypt made peace with vault, even when morsi came in, you know, muslim brotherhood, they were fearful here in washington that he might walk away from

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cnn's jill dougherty just landed and finished an interview with a very known olympic athlete, johnnyn. what did he tell you? >> he loves russia. he freely admits that. in fact, he's married to a man who's a russian-american. took his last name, et cetera. but he says, johnny weir basically says, we ought to go to the olympics. we should not boycott, definitely. because our mere presence will be enough. the gay people, let's say the athletes or the gay visitors who want to come, the fans, their presence will be enough to make a statement. now, there are other people who say that if you go to games like that and you don't make a statement, then you're kind of condoning what's going on. and what's going on is, of course, the law that it really is quite draconian. one of the problems is, it's very new. so how could it be interpreted? it could be interpreted very seriously or maybe not as strictly. now, i should point out that the international olympic committee did tell cnn that that law is not going to have an effect on athletes or fans. but many people, gay rights organizations, do not

jill dougherty, foreign affairs correspondent is over at the russian embassy right now here in washingtonsome high level meetings between u.s. and russian officials. we do expect the president will be asked about his decision to cancel that one on one meeting with the russian president, vladimir putin, in moscow just before the g-20 summit in st. petersburg, russia. what's the latest? what are you getting over there, jill? >> reporter: wolf, we're right outside of the embassy. just a few minutes ago the car of foreign minister lavrov also carrying the defense minister came into the russian embassy. they're going to be giving a news conference in just a few minutes. they will be summing up what happened at that meeting over at the state department. the secretary of state, secretary of defense, and the russian officials meeting to discuss this relationship. and hopefully something for the g-20. but the relationship really is having a lot of difficulty, primarily because of the snowden affair. the nsa leaker. there is a raft of other issues that they don't see eye to eye on. i want to hear f

first let's start in washington where cnn's jill dougherty is standing by at the white house. jill, this is a clear area of expertise for you. you worked in moscow for many years. what does this mean? >> i think it means that the wheels are coming off this relationship pretty fast, kate. there will be a meeting here in washington tomorrow with senior russian and u.s. officials, but it could be a tough one. there will be no see you in september summit in moscow between presidents barack obama and vladimir putin. state department spokeswoman jen psaki telling cnn's jake tapper -- >> our relationship with russia has been a roller coaster ride at times. >> reporter: the white house does say president obama will attend the g-20 summit in st. petersburg, russia. both men will be in the same room there but so far, no plans for a one on one. the biggest reason for the snub, moscow's decision to give nsa leaker edward snowden temporary asylum in russia but the white house has a litany of issues where the two countries are at odds. arms control, missile defense, trade, global security is