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Colorado, back in june of to 13, i asked him about the situation in syria. listen to this exchange. >> what, if anything, should the united states be doing to get rid of bashar al assad? assuming thats what the u.s. wants? >> we are going to have to determine what is the end state we want? this war needs to be ended as rapidly as possible. thats the bottom line. but if the americans go in, if the americans take leadership, if the americans take ownership of this, its going to be a full-throated,...

Time. hes intraspective, focused -- the way i described jim mattis, the guy to take you to the objective, desired end state and walk back from that and everybodys going to figure how to lyn rhe lyn r linearly get there. >> and you dont often hear a description of blunt or -- jim sciutto, of course. but -- so straight-talking. >> yeah. >> but very thoughtful and not going to mince words. right? >> the thing about generals today, spdr marks in that category. you go out in the field or in the penta...

Its a paradox and trump bringing it up, it feeds the republican base that loves to go to war mentality but it doesnt get you to an end state that changes it much. it makes democrats stronger for her and reminds republicans that bill clinton is a guy who spent a lot of time on sex slave island. >> so much to respond to here, joy, that im not sure -- go ahead. >> known quantities maybe if you read world net daily. but i think one important point in that giuliani analogy, he dumped his wife on nati...

Move a lot of republican voters any further than they have been. everybody knows bad touch bill clinton. everybody knows this is a guy who engaged in behavior over a course of a decades that would put most people in jail. what it does is bring democrats home to hillary that weve seen in previous lixs. in 2012, we saw in focus groups that when you brought it up that bill clinton was a bad actor in a million different ways, what happened is people say yeah, we like him still and we like her. its a...

Been that there is a necessary requirement for ground forces if you are going to try to defeat, and the strategy has not been sufficient. it has not been following with what the president has indicated us to do, and not resourced, and so if you want the defeat something, you have to be on the ground to pull it apart, and guess what, there are some ugly results as a result of that, and it starts with the desired and the very clear picture of what that desired end state needs to be. if it is defea...

Power on the ground. these are the cities that the u.s. wants to be able to say isis has been booted out of. pamela? >> and whats interesting, just in the wake of what youre saying, barbara, he basically said, look the u.s. is doing our part. were escalating the attacks against isis. now other countries theyd to do the same. and he singled out countries, peter. he said, you know, russia, saudi arabia, turkey. they need to step up to the plate. what do you make of that? >> you know, but what hes ...

Forward politically today. we dont want to commit military forces and risk lives and the treasure of the nation if we dont know what the end state is. the problem in iraq was we didnt have an end state. we hadnt done our political thinking to get it through. this is the time to put this together. so its easy to focus on the military but its not the right answer at this point. the question is whats the political shape and thats what the jousting is going on in vienna, thats the jousting going on ...

Export the front lines? >> theres no doubt that isis leadership in syria and iraq is both trying to consolidate territory and trying to both export and inspire attacks abroad. its an all of the above approach. they have moved into a phase where they are able to do more beyond the borders of their so-called caliphate but its always been their goal to pursue both of these strategies. the u.s. and allies can increase the pressure on the isis strongholds and were seeing evidence of that now. theres ...

The problem is, what the sustainable end state in syria that doesnt lead to the destruction of the country further and for syrias population to be fur her displaced. half of syrias 22 million population is now outside of their homes, either in neighboring countries for fleeing to europe. we have to find a stable end state. i dont think the assad regime, the iranians and russians can blast their way out of this one if think it will take a political settlement that is not in the cards. >> a settle...

Long game. number two -- >> hold on, before you go to number two. so if president obama is no longer there of course because his time is going to run out and someone else is going to be elected, do you not think the next president will not get engaged with putin? its the same problem. >> i think by the time the president -- this president is no longer president that youll probably have some sort of russian-american negotiation. a deal, im not sure. but there will be an effort to negotiate some s...