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Lets be intellectually honest here. maybe the trump campaign believes this -- that somehow hes a saviour in the middle east and donald trump is somehow in line with vladimir putin on foreign policy is kind of embarrassing if you actually think thats what the foreign policy of the united states is, if propping assad up -- >> the united states has invaded in the middle east, creating vacuums, making isis grow stronger. is that what youre saying? >> are you saying that donald trumps foreign policy ...

Of truth in this. all intelligence reports showed mr. assad as reeling. he was really in bad shape. he was losing his military. he was being contradicted into a small area of syria. it looked like he was teetering on the brink of defeat. russia has done that, so has iran. so you will see some additional advances of mr. assad. he is carting out an area. as we talked about before, russia is not only interested in helping the allie. russia is more interested in maintaining the military base in syri...

Collapse. they will have to go through change, whether assad changes or goes. putin will have a seat at that table. >> let me ask you about that. there are several administration officials that say putin controls the interstates and wants to be the agenda setter oak. the u.s. believes many here in the country believes he wants to simply prop up assad. is that it? or do they extend beyond that? >> i think look at what hes accomplished in a few short days. hes come in there. with a couple of bombs...

Crying on the refugees with one eye and aiming at them with the machine gun with the second one. because, actually, those refugees left syria because of the terrorism. so the west is crying for them and supporting terrorists in the middle of the crisis when it was a peaceful uprising as they called it. >> of course, what he calls terrorism we call the anti-assad syrian rebels who have, according to john mccain and other republican critics, not gotten enough support. we have testimony on the hill...

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>> bill: obviously a false belief on mr. kerrys part. for years, assad has been protected by the russians who were warned of the attack was coming that night so they could get their personal out of the airfield. >> russia should be embarrassed and ashamed. they are the one telling people that there were no agents, no chemical weapons left. we know for the better part of the year, assad has been using chlorine bombs against population centers. a couple of days ago, the nerve agent sarin. they hav...