the world went down this route with saddam hussain. now you have to get a united nations security council resolution we create this infrastructure to look for the weapons and put them under international custody. you have to get a security council resolution, the united states would only agree to that if russia says if he breaks this deal we will seek authorization of military force. can you work that out. how do you go into syria in the middle of a civil war. do you broker a cease fire? and what worries a lot of people is you are creating a deal that leaves assad in power. >> in that interview with charlie rose he puts this on terrorists inside syria. >> he is a sociopath. >> that's the guy we have a deal with? >> yes. they can make a deal at some point for their own survival and that is the genius. >> this is an out -- >> not an out but an amazing achievement. if we get an international order in which the u.n., with russia leading the charge actually takes the stand on chemical weapons or the world community does this it's a wonderfu

it was used by saddam hussain to gas iraqis and his own -- iranians and his own people and now it hasen used by bashar al-assad. three people in all of history. >> he studied optometry in london for a couple years and trust into this job when his dad di died hafez al-assad. someone who studied bashar al-assad, is he another hitler? >> no, i don't think so the way we understand it. i think secretary kerry is trying to make the case to the american people, and if you compare somebody to hitler that's the worst comparison you can have and trying to influence the debate on this and congress and polls and american public. you compare someone to hitler or saddam hussain, it's someone you cannot accept or compelled to over throw. i know it's hard to reconcile this person that many of us knew at one time and many of us thought was something of a hope for syria and had a different type of background as you said, a licensed ophthalmologist and he was always -- he was considered by everyone who knew him as humble and unpreten shows. how did this happen? i think the key is is that he became much

this the start of another hide and seek games like the u n weapons inspectors had to play with saddam hussain? is all of this? the u.s. began dismantling their chemical weapons storage in the mid-1990's and they are still not done. a lot of experts say this timetable cannot be met. >> this is washington's reaction to the use of chemical weapons in syria. but will the u.s. do about the civil war there? >> barack obama has made it clear, especially in the past week, it was not the u.s.'s job to interfere in the civil war itself. at the same time, they have repeatedly said that assad must go. that is why the supporting part of the opposition, for example with weapons, but that is probably as far as it will go. enough to help the rebels. >> thanks very much. the international community has broadly welcomed the agreement on syria. u.n. secretary-general expressed hope it would prevent further use of such weapons and pave the way for a political solution. merkelmerkel -- angela said she was happy to see a glimmer of hope in the conflict, but she added the words must be followed by concrete action.

was included as a weapon of mass destruction really after the gulf war when we wanted to put saddam hussain in a box and make sure he wasn't doing anything bad so we said you can't build nuclear weapons, biological weapons and chemical weapons and then we kept him in that box and we kept emphasizing chemical weapons. i think yes, of course you don't want these weapons used but the impulse behind it which is you could kill lots of people is actually no longer true. conventional war kills many more people. >> you already see mission creed. >> i see mission creed because of the rhetoric and mccain says he'll support the resolution because he's been given private assurances this is not going to be a limited strike or symbolic and much bigger, that there is going to be more arms given to the opposition, an opposition not given arms because administration hasn't been able to find the moderates, so all of this suggestions we'll relax our standers as to who qualifies for weapons in training. >> well, all of a sudden, john kerry yesterday or the day before that said they are more moderate than we've

i do believe that today there was compelling evidence presented that saddam hussain they used nerve gas against his own people. now the next question is what is the best way to deter him from ever doing that again, and i think this is a problem that the world needs to get involved with pity we need to know that if there is a military strike but we are going to do and what will they do. i know the missions that said that they would support us. is this a schoolyard bully where they say you go hit him and we will hold your code and get lemonade or are they involved in this as well? where are the students around the world and the demonstrations and berlin and tokyo what are we doing and then where is the u.n.? i know they are waiting for their report and while they are waiting for the report on the nerve gas the have refugees so who is going to pay the bill not only for what is the consequence for the military strike but as we deal with this serious crisis. i want to hear where the world is and our best course of action. >> when you see pages like the front of "the new york times" today do