meantime, a white house official has said that the world will note if russia can't get this chemical weonseather: russiaoe't want the blame to be put on the syrians. it wants it to be shared between the rebels and the government of syria. >> brian: here is the other thing, they're starting to upgrade the amount of arms and heavy machinery and heavy material that is going into syria to support their army as is hezbollah and iran. for the first time, we understand the c.i.a. is escorting arms to the rebels. so things are upgrading in town because for one thing, i'm not sure what makes up the rebels, i haven't been there, but i will say this, there is russia, iran, and hezbollah all working for the syrian government, which has a standing army. >> steve: it's interesting you should mention the rebels because vladimir putin is writing an op ed in the pages of the "new york times." >> brian: why wouldn't he? >> steve: yeah. he says there is no doubt that poison gas was used, but, you know, there is not evidence that shows that the assad government used it and, in fact, as we know from the russia