but shortly after john kerry raised that idea in london the u.s. state department but saying it was never intended as a real offer. also this hour the battle for moscow is over. and instead elected in a new term in office but opposition runner up election of only refuses to concede defeat calling for a mass rally to demand a recount. very good evening it's now is to say just past eight o'clock here in moscow my name is kevin and you're watching r.t. syria has agreed to russia's proposal that it put its chemical weapons stockpiles under international control u.s. secular state john kerry initially suggested such a scheme as a way to avoid a military strike on syria but the u.s. state department says since issued an apparent retraction saying it wasn't a genuine offer to sean thomas joins us for more hi there sean it's been an afternoon of twists and turns but the dramatic news in the last hour syria now said its own border this plan bring us up to speed well certainly kevin has been a very interesting day in fact as this story has rapidly develop fr

i think john kerry will get hard questions from the israelis on that. >> the u.s. and russia have been asking israel to ratify the chemical weapons treaty. it hasn't happened. how likely is it that kerry will use today to ask israel again? >> well, there are some in the israeli press saying that some israeli officials may be having sleepless nights on the issue. you are right, the israelis signed the chemical weapons convention in 1993 but they have failed to ratify it. every time someone says, "oi why haven't you ratified it?" they say, "look at the syrians, they are not good neighbours, and what do they have?", if you are interested in making the regime chemmial weapons free, if you can inties the syrians -- entice the syrians to give up the weapons, the syrians won't have that excuse. it's an idea that is clearly being discussed. >> you mentioned enticing the syrians. now that the chemical weapons deal has been agreed pon - what comes next? >> well, from the israeli perspective, they want everything on the table as the detailed plan that john kerry and his counte

secretary of state john kerry met with his british counterpart in london today. syria was at the top of the agenda. the u.s. secretary of state laid out his evidence of use of chemical weapons by the assad regime and reiterated this strike would be a limited targeted short term action against chemical weapons in syria. >> the united states of america, president obama myself, and others are in full agreement that the end to the conflict in syria and requires a political solution. there is no military solution. we have no illusions about them. -- we have no illusions about that. but a resolution to this house to come about because the parties are prepared to negotiate that political solution. if one party believes he can rub out countless numbers of his own citizens with impunity, he will never come to the negotiating table. >> our correspondent joins us from london. you were there today. the u.k. and u.s. have long had a special relationship as they call it. last week, the british parliament voted against military intervention. what else was revoked at the confere

secretary of state john kerry and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov later this hour so stay tuned to boycott reports now on what the signs have agreed on and sticking points remain so far let's now. it's been a question of will they or won't they in geneva and so far there's been no answer to that question john kerry and sergey lavrov were locked in tense negotiations throughout the day and into the night more than fifteen hours of talks took place and now those negotiations over how to rid syria of its chemical weapons are set to continue into saturday both parties trying to hammer out a deal and avoid a u.s. military strike against syria that is what is at stake here and already there have been some reports of progress with the u.s. and russia reportedly agreed on the size of syria's chemical weapons stockpiles speaking earlier john kerry and sergey lavrov expressed cautious optimism that they would be able to come up with a diplomatic solution to this crisis despite the diplomacy there are a number of sticking points that could put a spoke in the wheels of coming up with a work

this all comes at secretary of state john kerry this morning told fox news that there is concrete evidence that it was sarin gas that was used in that horrible strike. good morning, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. >> hi, everyone. i'm jamie colby. interesting to note the u.n. and their mandate to go check out what happened with the inspectors was to find out whether chemical weapons were used, not who used them. i know you'll talk about this with ambassador bolton. there's new reaction now in the u.s. and around the world to president obama's delaying his decision on a potential strike on syria. he's decided to ask congress to first authorize any military action. france saying it will wait for the u.s. decision on how to act. and israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says his country is ready for any possible scenario. first to connor powell who joins us live from our mideast bureau. what's the reaction there? >> reporter: this move by president obama generating anger, confusion and even some just, you know -- confusion across the entire area of the m

among those testifying will be chuck hagel and martin dempsey and john kerry. jo it's good to see you again. what do you expect will come out of the the hearing? >> secretaries hagel and kerry will be making the case for an attack. if the u.s. does not act now they will be em boldened to use these weapons and attack u.s. allies and threaten u.s. interest. dempsey will make the case that no matter when the u.s. military strikes it will happen. >> how could it be the case that giving syria all this lead time won't effect the strikes and how potentially effective they are? >> you don't want to telegraph. the defense department arguing is they would bh adjusting their targets no matter what had they started this weekend or two weeks from now. syrian forces respond. they mover resources. the pentagon would be adjusting their targets. it's a difficult case to make because chemical weapons facility cases can empty. >> dempsey has expressed skepticism publicly and privately about the effectiveness of this potential attack. what is he going to say today? senators will br

secretary of state john kerry. mr president, those that sent to investigate confirmed chemical weapons were used in syria. the perpetrators of this crime must be brought to justice. permission to return to syria to complete the investigation, including of the incident in question. i expect the team to complete the fact-finding activities by next week. >> the secretary-general of the united nations, ban ki-moon announcing the unanimous vote, an historic resolution by the u.n. security council, which requires the government of syria to name all of its chemical weapons and the specific type of munitions used to deliver those weapons. the location of all the chemical weapons and the complete elimination of the chemical weapons as well as, including full communication of theiations of the united nations. >> the one thing this resolution doesn't have it teeth, is that correct. >> that is true. i want to remind the viewers of why this is so historic. it's historic because of the topic, because it's taken so long to get to

secretary of state john kerry. but shortly after john kerry made that statement in london the u.s. state department backtracked saying it was never intended as a real offer. in the battle for moscow is over. and is elected for a new term in office but opposition runnerup alexina valley refuses to concede defeat calling for a mass rally to demand a recount. you're watching tape with me and. now russia's foreign minister says he's ready to negotiate with syrian president bashar al assad to try and get him to hand over his chemical weapons stockpile to the international community he was responding to a statement from his u.s. counterpart john kerry will thomas joins us live from more on this show on this issue here isn't there because washington then withdrew that statement from kerry saying this rhetoric but russia have taken him up on the offer believing it could be a way forward indeed it's going to be interesting to see how all of this plays out as sergey lavrov says that they're ready to move forward with this this actually comes after john kerry met with william hague his counte

john kerry has started speaking. let's listen to what he's saying. >> i'm particularly grateful to sergei lavrov, who stayed extra time from what he had originally planned hoping we would finish sooner. this gave us additional opportunity to be able to work through some of the issues. i especially want to thank the cooperative effort of sergei lavrov who has worked hard, and his entire delegation, including teams of the world's foremost chemical weapons experts who have joined us here for the important discussions we've had over the last two days. two weeks ago president obama made the decision that because of the agregious use of chemical weapons in syria against women and children all discriminately murdered in the night that claimed the lives of people trying to rescue people, he believed it was critical for the world to say, no more. the president made the difficult decision that after multiple warnings it was his decision that the time had come to take military action to deter future use of such weapons. he also

peaceful end to the vicious civil conflict foreign minister sergey lavrov and secretary of state john kerry outlined a six point plan under which damascus would hand over its chemical stockpiles now the outline will first have to be approved by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons syria will now have a week to provide the u.n. with a complete list of all of its stockpiles so-called extraordinary procedures under the chemical weapons convention could be used to destroy the arsenal meanwhile all sides including the rebel groups have been told that they will be responsible for the safety of international inspectors and will have to provide free access to those sites. the ultimate aim is the complete removal or elimination of all syria's chemical weapons if any side in the conflict fails to comply with the proposed plan then the un charter chapter seven could then come into effect essentially allowing the use of force or naughty boy who has been following the negotiations in geneva press conference here in geneva kicked up rather unconventionally with sergey lavrov strolling

that's the quandary facing john kerry as he returns to the u.s. >> hadley, mr. rry said he was confident that congress will listen carefully. this is what he said just a few minutes ago. we know that half of congress essentially is still undecided. will they have been swayed by what mr. kerry said this morning? >> i think that what secretary kerry was really trying to do is, once again, lay out the evidence that he is open to -- >> unfortunately, hadley's line is far from perfect so we'll just leave it there for the moment. let's move on. friday's weaker than expected job numbers has done little to temper the worry that they'll scale back the bond buying. there were 169,000 jobs in the month of august. unemployment fell to 7.3%. a report in the "financial times" says that they could broaden their guidance by officially using inflation as well as employment data as a peg to keep rates low. >>> the impact of fed tapering on emerging market economies caused a great deal of friction at the g-20 summit. speaking to cnbc at the imf summit, christine lagarde said it wil

and ambassador, what do you make of the behavior of the -- you see john kerry's counterpart. you combine that with vladimir putin's op-ed in "the new york times" and the counterpart to john kerry that saying anything, making fun of john kerry for making a long political statement, does it seem to you that russia believes they are controlling the tempo here? >> well, i work with sergei lavrov in the unitees nations and this is his personality. he is a character. he is theatrical. he is a tough diplomat, a serious man, and he and john kerry have met almost two dozen times in the last year, so i think in private they forged a pretty direct, constructive relationship. of course, this is really about public diplomacy, and for the russians, this is a moment for them to re-assert their diplomatic leadership position they have long south in the region and come up with a solution that defies the perception that america is controlling the agenda in the middle east. >> you know, it's interesting because last hour i heard oliver north say he believes that we have handed all the credibili

in the middle of the we need time to get heat rising on too many days john kerry and sergey lavrov to leave that great great will to come up with a deal here in geneva a state how well the u.s. and russia can work together when everything needs to real and said. regime. and not to. put a peaceful end to the civil war taking now at least up to three times david told hearing he need not a military strike by the new laugh again fairy and have an ambassador routine. but you bring. in the new oxen right he's a german journalist focusing on the syrian crisis he believes the syrian government would let its goal of bound by giving up its chemical weapons we shouldn't forget another thing what's very important to this is the meaning of chemical weapons for syria for the syrian state and also for the syrian people so we talk about these chemical weapons stockpile it in a term of yes it is like an offense to weapon off aggression but for the syrian it's own for the syrian government the chemical stockpile is a sort of. protective arm or which shall protect the independence and the silver in the

it is hoped that it will help end the vicious civil conflict areas secretary of state john kerry and foreign minister s ergei lavrov outlined a plan that would give syria a week to provide the u.n. with a complete list of its chemical weapons stockpile. "extraordinary procedures" could be used to destroy the arsenal. rebel groups will have to provide free access to the sites. the ultimate aim is th complete removal or elimination of all syria's chemical weapons. it's any side in the conflict fails to comply with the plan, you win charter chapter seven could come into effect, essentially allowing the use of force. our correspondent has been following the negotiations. corrects the press conference here in geneva kicked off rather unconventionally with sergei lavrov sitting in amongst the reporters, chatting and clearly waiting for john kerry to show up. after days of tense negotiations, a deal has been struck. damascus has one week in which to provide information on its chemical weapons stockpiles and thereafter they must allow unfettered access to weapons -- inspectors from the organ

early yesterday in london, secretary of state john kerry responding to a question. when he said that syrian president assad could have earned an attack, an ultimatum of sorts, by turning over his chemical weapons to the international community. at that moment there was an idea that the state department initially was totally dismissive of. >> we have no expectation that he'll do anything different than what he's done the last several months, which is ignore the will of the international community. the fact is we've tried diplomacy. >> he was speaking rhetorically about a situation we thought had very low probability of happening. >> but russia's foreign minister seized on the idea, appearing alongside his syrian counterpart in moscow, and by time the president spoke midday in a series of network interviews he was saying the idea, quote, could potentially be a significant breakthrough. >> i think a famous american president once said trust but verify. you have to take it with a grain of salt initially, but between the statements that we saw from the russians, the stat

john kerry testifying at the house committee.'s listen. >> we have defense secretary chuck hagel. looks like he's taking his position now. let's listen in to the defense secretary. >> joined by general dempsey from platoon leader. he's served in the united states army for over 40 years and now serves as a chairman of the joint chiefs. we will go to our secretary of defense mr. hagel first. >> mr. chairman, ranking member ra rangle, members of the committee, thank you. general dempsey and i also apologize for being late. the other side of the capital held us up. we are much better for it. thank you for your understanding. in the coming days, as we all know, congress will debate how to respond to the most recent chemical weapons attacks in syria. a large scale of sarin gas was placed on its own people. i welcome this debate and i support president obama's decision to seek congressional authorization for the use of force in syria. committing the country to use military force is the most difficult decision leaders can make. all of us

fatalities in this. >> thank you, jennifer glass live from averages. >>> secretary of state john kerry says the evidence lies in the chemical warfare, used the chemical gas serin, the worst attack in 25 years and in five different interviews on sunday, kerry says it is already excelling against syria. >>> will be working in the week ahead to convince congress to respond. al jazeera's paul beban reports. >> president obama asks congress to approve military action against syria. secretary of state john kerry took the lead. >> the president clearly had sufficient case presented to the american people, that assad had engaged in an outrageous crime against humanity and it was vital to take steps. but i think the president realized consultations with the congress that people wanted to weigh in. and he believed after thinking about it that the united states of america is much stronger when we act in concert. >> secretary kerry made the rounds on the sunday morning shows, that the move was a sign of weakness. >> important development that in the last 24 hours we have learned through samples pr

think it's because the president's had to pull back now you know is that going to mean that when john kerry speaks people are going to assume that the president united states might dead or a bit hopefully not i suppose there's that respect i think that now you know there's some political cover that kerry even has because of the u.k. vote because of what the parliament let's remember john kerry has about a thirty year track record of saying too much about too much and broke obama has not wanted to be out there and be hard indecisive on this issue so i think it naturally created some day like what about the american public what a what are they thinking how do we know what was the water poll showing i think that people are strongly opposed to this and opposed to that we know this is going into syria i think there are reasons for that we are war weary war weary but by by the same token you know i don't want to like look i think that the voices of all americans are very important but there's always been a very strong anti interventionist sentiment in america there are americans who don't want to

secretary of state john kerry is saying more world leaders are backing the u.s. efforts to strike syria. the president set to address the american public on tuesday to again state his case for action. for more on syria's world, al jazeera sat down with former congressman and presidential candidate ron paul. here is a sneak peek of that interview. >> what would be your line in syria? is there a moment where the united states has a responsibility to protect, to go abroad to help people who are in crisis and being killed by their own government >> yes. if any country including syria, if they attack the united states, you know, under attack, you know, threatened us and came and bombed us or sent a drone missile over here or something, you know, that might qualify as a requirement to retaliate but under today's circumstances, i can't imagine any moral justification for us getting involved in another war because it's been morally unjustified for the involvement that we have had already. it certainly isn't authorized under the constitution that we should be the policeme

americans so they had to agree and if you see the message from today from the john kerry it means very clearly that he left his position from last week he did almost a u. turn and i'll say discouraged if possible next steps for the u.s. and syria are with former u.n. ambassador thomas pickering and has a preview of that coming up on sunday. it seems that american diplomats may start with a relatively flexible position but they lose patience fairly quickly and almost invariably start that looting to the military option look i understand there's a deep concern and i support this changing political relationship through the use of military force doesn't work very well it didn't work for me well in the cold war it is not work very well in the post cold war period and i am very concerned that a fascination in my country over the last ten years on the use of military force has undermined diplomacy i would like to play something that you personally have to say in the aftermath of the iraq war. if i had a choice between the last decade with our invasion of iraq and saddam. the alternative i thi

americans so they had to agree and if you see the message from today from the john kerry it means very clearly that he left his position and from last week he did almost a u. turn. domenech to have a plan as sad as france's foreign interior and tran minister says moscow has efforts to prevent the use of force have been a game changer the main factor is the willingness of russia to take responsibility and russia taking the lead making some proposals this is really changing the whole figure of the whole fijian army of the of the situation in the last thirteen years the use of force did not gave any result in the international scene we've seen it in afghanistan we've seen it in iraq we've seen it in libya so we know that the solution for syria is not force. and we know also that there is a way to escape from force from the use of an attack and this way out is to have some results on the ground some diplomatic results in order to find better solutions for the syrian problem for that we have. the league delusional legality we have the international criminal court so the answer to punish is

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here to talk about john kerry is a presidential biographer spent 16 years covering kerry for "the bostonthe show today. i guess i want to see if you can talk a little bit as someone who has watched kerry through the years to this evolution. he cites being informed by vietnam and being informed by iraq. at the beginning of his career he was anti-war. middle of the career was against the 1991 gulf wore in in the last 20 years voted for iraq war in 2002 and is now as we say the face of the administration's push for syria. how do you reconcile that entire career when you look at it? >> one thing is he sort of symbolizes the whole problem the american left has had since vietnam. vietnam was such a searing experience particularly for the left, searing experience for the whole country and left had hard time coming to grips with americ america's duty to use force around the word. back to vietnam days when he came back and he was a leader for vietnam veterans against the war, he called himself in that famous testimony you showed a picture of on the screen, a winter soldier. that's from tom payne'

i assume when he's speaking to john kerry, he spoke in english.poke to him in english. >> when you're in a private ceremony, you can drop the formality of an interpreter. >> in terms of a timeline, some people have been saying a couple weeks. how will you know something is actually working in these meetings? do you know it immediately? do you -- >> no, not immediately. this is going to take several weeks, i think. two weeks at least initially because you're going to go through the wordsmithing, plus you have the u.n. -- >> hold on, jay carney, press secretary. let's see if he opens up with q & a or house keeping. >> as some of you saw secretary kerry and his counterpart spoke in geneva. i wanted to allow you the opportunity to see that before i came out. before i take your questions, i wanted to make two statements. first, on wednesday, this coming wednesday at 10:45 a.m., the president will address business leaders at the quarterly meeting of the business roundtable. the event will take place in d.c. at the business roundtable office. secondly, i

secretary of state john kerry warned syria force is still an option if they do not put their chemicaleapons under international control. and routing hamburg. in the state of bavaria went to the polls in regional elections, giving us an idea of how things will look in the country's general election weeks from now. the conservatives got a convincing majority that will allow the party to govern without a coalition partner. the opposition social democrats are just over the 20% mark. 7 .8%,ens got about disappointing for them. the free voters have taken about 8.6%, and the free democrats take just three percent. and for more on that, our political correspondent, simon young, joins us now in the studio. good result very there for some. it does not tell us anything about where it is going to go on the national level? >> certainly, the main headline, it is a hugely positive results for the conservative camp, with the bavarian conservatives returning to their position as the sole party of government in the big and important state of bavaria. conservatives across the country will be taking hear

john kerry said the number of countries wishing to join a coalition is in the double digit. the list will not be made public until monday. manier wary entering into a con -- many are wary of entering into a conflict without the un's support. >> john kerry will go to london. after the u.k. parliament voted no to u.s. intervention, the u.s. knows it will have to build the case for war out the help of some traditional allies. >> gunman opened fire on the main street of a town near the gata mallan capital killing 11 people. most were sitting in a bar. police blame the attack on gang violence. residents say corrupt police are responsible. >> >> translation: i don't know what is think, you can no longer live calmly and peacefully. it happens everywhere, but not here before. it never happened before because this is a humble town. >> thousands of mexicans have been protesting over government plans to raise taxes and open the energy sector to private vestment. they say the president is putting big business first. >> david mercer has this report from mexico city. >> three weeks of dem

did we just hear secretary of state john kerry hypothesize his way into a potentially different solution. one person said that kerry made a major goof and went off script. but syria's ali russia suggested a plan for syria to hand over its chemical weapons to international control and the syrians said they would be open to it and we watched all day long as the administration seemed to publicly warm to the idea, culminating in the moment that president obama sat down in a chair opposite our own wolf blitzer. we'll show you his revealing interview and examine all of the implications with help of gloria borger and two others. but first mr. blitzer when you had a list of questions ready to ask president obama you probably had to scrap that list because of the events of the day. >> i had 15 brilliant questions ready to go. and they were all assuming there was going to be a crisis and vote and u.s. air strikes on targets in seyria and during th course of the day there is a realistic chance there could be a diplomatic solution to avert the need for military strikes and avert the vote that would

secretary of state john kerry and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. key talks in geneva into the second day. >> people are holding their breath in geneva and around the world at the moment while the top diplomats meet to try to come to a diplomatic solution to disarming syria other weapons. this is currently on course while john kerry and serge sergi lavrov will me to try to have a tip solution. some progress has been made. we have seen confirmation that there aren't treaty papers. this morning saw a meeting between john kerry, sergei lavrov, and the international envoy for syria will stop they expressed cautious optimism about the prospect of coming to a viable resolution, a diplomatic solution to the crisis. >> now the assad government joined the chemical weapons convention and we have to engage our professionals together with the chemical weapons organization as they agreed with the u.n. to design a road which would make sure this issue is resolved quickly, professionally,, as soon as possible. >> our residents are deeply concerned about the death

. >> the secretary of state, john kerry, joins us. and then, cnn's christiane amanpour and fareed zakaria weigh in. this morning, the state of the obama presidency, on this special edition of "state of the union." good morning, and welcome to washington, i'm gloria borger in for candy crowley. this morning, there is growing apprehension over president obama's surprise request for congressional approval of military action against syria. and that vote could come as early as next week. now, the u.s. military says the delay won't jeopardize its pl s plans, but this morning, members of the syrian opposition complained that the delay will embolden the syrian regime. and in a possible sign that's already happening, reuters reports syria's state newspaper is now trumpeting what it calls an historic american retreat. next hour, we'll get a briefing from the u.n. chemical weapons inspectors. but just now, secretary of state john kerry told me that the u.s. has new evidence the syrians used sarin in the august 21st attack that killed 1,400 peopl

security council would be a place we can take a listen to john kerry and sergey lavrov talking about that in a little bit more detail right now. for anything less than full compliance by the regime in the event of noncompliance we have committed to impose measures under chapter seven within the security council. we expect full compliance with the requirements the organization for the process of chemical weapons imposes and if they are not somebody uses chemical weapons the un security council will take measures in accordance with chapter seven of the un charter. does not mean that every time a violation is reported actions will be taken automatically will first have to verify such reports because there are a lot of fabrications along these surrounding this issue and we have to be very careful in terms of reaction we've already heard from the syrian opposition that they reportedly have rejected this deal that has been struck in geneva and during the questions john kerry also made an interesting admission that the syrian opposition could have also got their hands on chemical weapons th

jeact john kerry arrived in geneva this morning there for two days for talks with sergei lavrov. we have live team coverage going to geneva shortly. randall pinkston, good to see you. let's talk first of all about this op ed in the new york times from russian president vladimir putin. how is the white house responding to that? president putin being an ally of syria doing what he can to avert any kind of military strike from the u.s. what is the u.s.'s reaction? >> putin has his own objectives and aims at heart and certainly not america's. we would like to be the fly on the wall for shall we say the unofficial reaction to what putin wrote but we do have a senior administration official telling us this morning that president putin has invested his credibility in transferring assad's chemical weapons to international control and ultimately are destroying them. if world will note whether russia can follow through on that commitment. and you don't have to really read through the lines here to see what the white house is saying, that now mr. putin its up to you to deliver what you prom

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secretary of state john kerry has plans to meet with his iranian counterpart. rouhani has been counting for meetings to fast-track nuclear talks. are joining us is kristin saloummi. >> he has been sending signals he is ready to talk with the u.s. about his country's nuclear programs and those signals have been received loud and clear here at the u.n. general assembly. katherine ashton who is head of the eu delegation which has been leading talks between the permanent five members of the security council and germany with iran on their nuclear program, did meet with iran's foreign minister earlier today. she announced there would be a meeting of foreign ministers from those countries later this week and iranian foreign minister hassan zarif will take part in those talks along with john kerry. i can't stress how significant that is, for countries who haven't had relations for over 35 years to have diplomats as high as john kerry and minister zarif. will president obama and president rouhani actually meet and shake hands on the sidelines. there is speculation on th

president obama didn't consult with john kerry. john kerry was out there. sergei lavarov came with his deal. the white house embracing it. leaving john kerry out there to pick up the pieces and negotiate in geneva. let us not underestimate the skills of vladamir putin not a good dude by any stretch of the imagination. as a former kgb operative, taking out on-eds in a calculated series of move off to get international sort of, win the international debate over who is in charge here. in the on-said piece. putin is ceding factual ground. he wasn't willing to leave as possiblen the past. what people are looking for. why doesn't putin say what we think he should say the how dare he say, he doesn't think america is exceptional? there is a lot of countries in the world that don't think america is exceptional. don't expect it in "the new york times." >> americans are not used to being lectured to by other world leaders. i think people's offense. and putin is not a good dude. the way he is running russia, is the way, i lefty that i am will approve of. >> conducted t

john kerry and sergey lavrov very clearly extremely pleased that these they have been managed to set aside their differences strike a deal had they both spoke of how well the u.s. and russia can work together when there is a political well they said that they look forward to organizing asian iva to conference in october and not just working on eliminating syria's chemical weapons but also working towards a broader route for peace for syria so a collective sigh of relief here in geneva that for the moment that a u.s. strike against syria has been invited. and oxen trying to write a german john and it's to focusing on this syrian crisis believes the syrian government would let it down by giving up its chemical weapons. we shouldn't forget another thing what this very important tool this is the meaning of chemical weapons for syria for the syrian state and also for the syrian people so we talk about these chemical weapons stockpiles in the term of yes it is like. the weapon off aggression but for the syrians for the syrian government the chemical stockpile is a sort of. protective armor

then john kerry said the attack will be unbelievably small. they walk that back as they walked backerry's statement that if they can avoid air strikes if they would let the world have control of the weapons. that was putin. he jumped in and said, all right, let's see if they will do that. why so many contradictions? why can't they get the story straight? >> they can't get the story straight because it has to evolve because the american people aren't with them. the american people aren't with them because it is a terrible idea. this would be risky for america to weigh in on one side or the other in this awful civil war in syria without a clear plan as to what we are trying to accomplish and without a clear explanation as to how it makes americans safer rather than less safe. faced with the reality, they allow the story to evolve. they change it constantly. the american people are fed up with it. >> the administration so far, john kerry said the military operation, the attack will be unbelievably small -- his words. the president said it would b

i don't think it's fair to john kerry.ry, in fact, it has become here a central player and very much a team player for the obama administration, and he, by his own admission, said this was an idea that had been discussed, obama/putin. if the president -- >> if that was true why did he say it couldn't be done? >> if the president had aired this proposal earlier, it would have undercut his idea of saying i want congress to approve military action. so now -- >> but to brit's point, if the secretary of state is reacting to a question, and at the end of the question says, and he's not going to do it and it will not happen, obviously that cannot happen. >> they did not believe it, and the russians came in and said, no, no, we think this can happen and assad said i'd like to do it. that changed the dynamic. i don't think that's a reason to put down the president. >> he was driving towards a vote in congress that virtually nobody thought would pass and they had already written off -- >> i don't think it would have passed in the ho

secretary of state john kerry is? switzerland tonight. >> after john kerry finished his ten minute statement three times as long as the russian, he reclaimed the mic to deliver this unmistakable rebuke to the country. >> i'm not prepared with the political statement because our approaches are clear. i decided not to lay out here our diplomatic position. >> the two have known each other for years and used first names. that hardly matched their differences when kerry rejected the request for 230 30 days for the chemical weapon arsenal. syria's failure to comply with revive president barack obama 's threat to use military force. >> it has to be credible, timely and implemented in a timely fashion. finally, there ought to be consequences if it doesn't take place. >> aids to kerry said the u.s. and russian delegation has military intelligence officers who will compare the scope of weapons arsenal with the u.s. looking at start for signs of how soon syrian president assad will allow international access to relevant sites an

john kerry voted against that authorization.t through against the leadership of the democratic party. i think in this case similarly republicans and i would think a majority of republicans will end up voting to authorize the use of force. what john kerry said to you, you mentioned he made news by mentioning the sarin gas. he also made news i think by trying to get senators mccain and graham and people like me who really want assad to go. the way to deter the future use of chemical weapons in syria is to get rid of assad. he's the one guy to use them. but senator kerry gave an opening to the hawks when he said the military option is limited, it's just to deter and punish the use of chemical weapons, but our political aim remains to get rid of assad and we will weaken assad appreciably. and i do think in fact there will be a way to recognize the views of the hawks like senator mccain and graham, maybe give the doves in congress something say nothing ground troops, at least for now, perhaps we should try to end this quickly. people