senator kerry says mr. davis has diplomatic immunity, but will face a criminal investigation at home if released. >> under interrogation, a high- profile suspect teamed to get away. this is agreement davis, a u.s. embassy official, accused by pakistan police of cold-blooded murder. last month, he killed two pakistan a men, shooting them dead from inside his car. he is a crack shot and allegedly a former u.s. special forces. davis said the men tried to hijack him at gunpoint and it was self-defense. the case is like a spy drama gone badly wrong. a third man was run over and killed by a backup car. this is the busy intersection where the shooting took place. the bullets fired here have created a legal and diplomatic and political crisis. america and pakistan are not at loggerhead. both nations have accused -- have huge amounts at stake, but neither show signs of backing down. u.s. senator john kerry has been meeting pakistani leaders at an attempt at damage control. president obama insists that pakistan canno

mr. sydney schanberg. we spoke several times during the mccain and kerry campaigns.an organizer for vietnam's veterans against john mccain and john kerry. i'm here today because of the p.o.w. issue. as you very much involved in that. and what i would like to ask you is there is a prison in a hanoi underground, 1992 the senate committee, our government has the gift and before, with nixon in '73 when they said they all came home, just there's no other underground facility were 300 americans were held after the war was over. i would like to know if you would be willing to go with myself to go over to hanoi and insist that john mccain -- >> is billy here? >> yes. >> how are you, billy? >> [inaudible] >> yeah, i would be willing to go, but i don't think it's grin to happen because i don't think they are going to let it happen. they would probably shut it down and the would tell us that, you know -- >> there's the peace in the book about the many americans he believes were left behind in about a failure of the mainstream that covered the story. >> i would be willing to go

kerry, you have heard quite a lot this morning. give me your reaction to where things stand. >> i was encouraged by what i heard this morning. i thought mr. elbaradei actually moved. i think what we have heard from egypt about the meetings that vice president suleiman is, frankly, quite extraordinary. if you tally up what's happened in the last 12 days, president mubarak announced that he is not running. his son is not running. he has put a vice president in place. he has engaged in a dialogue with the protesters. he's now promising to remove the emergency law which is a major opening of the door to the democratic process, allowing people to organize, speak, meet at a cafe. i think that's a beginning. the most important thing now is to guarantee the process is in place where there are free and fair elections. parties can organize. people can campaign and, number two, that president mubarak, i think once again perhaps addressed the nation to make it clear what the timetable is. precisely what the process is. i think if that happens, this could actually turn significantly to the good and to the promise of a better outcome. >> as you know t

mr. kerry: i would ask the indulgence of the senator, if he would, before he engages in a discussion of his amendment, if he would permit senator mccain and i to send to the desk a resolution with respect to egypt. we would like to speak for a brief moment of time on it. mr. inhofe: mr. president, all i want to do is put two amendments in the queue. mr. kerry: no objection. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent to waive the reading of the amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment by number. the clerk: the senator from oklahoma, mr. inhofe, proposes amendment numbered 6. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment for the consideration of inhofe amendment number 7. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from oklahoma, mr. inhofe, propos