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Pentagon that the u.s. training mission of moderate syrian rebels opposed to the bashar al assad regime, opposed to isis, that whole training mission has now been suspended. its simply not worth working even though the u.s. proposed about $500 million, half a billion dollars, they wound up training four or five rebels. this has been a real disaster. >> well, it has been because in a sense when we finally said were going to cross a threshold and support those on the ground there, the problem we h...

At least three times as tension heats up in the skies over syria. one pentagon official said the first time it happened, we thought the russians got lucky. then it happened two more times. on at least one occasion, a u.s.-manned aircraft flying over syria had to be rerouted to avoid a russian fighter jet. >> its largely reactive. >> the cruise missile strike marks the first time that the russians have targeted isis-controlled territory. u.s. officials have repeatedly criticized the russian milit...

Moscow is saying, that actually these strikes are meant to target isis? thats who were going after? >> well, it looks like the evidence on the ground isnt really supporting the russian claims, even russian claims that theyre targeting al nusra. the british open source journalism project just did an analysis of russian videos, military videos, where they said they were bombing isis targets and yesterday belling cat said that actually those were filmed i believe hundreds of kilometers away. they w...

>> people argue theyre not targeting isil the rebel-backed forces that are fighting assad. senator john mccain says the russians have struck u.s.-backed forces. listen to this. >> i can absolutely confirm to you there were strikes against our free syrian army or groups that have been armed and trained by the cia, because we have communications with people there. >> the russian, of course, assert that they are targeting isis as well as other groups in syria. but just want to get your gain of what...

Precisely one of the problems with the whole approach. by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, youre taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> taking out other rebel groups including the u.s. backed free syrian army could work in favor of the russian strategy in syria, setting up assad as the only alternative to a full isis takeover. emerging from a meeting this afternoon with his russian counterpart, secretary of state john kerry acknowled...

Precisely one of the problems with the whole approach. by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, youre taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> taking out other rebel groups including the u.s. backed free syrian army could work in favor of the russian strategy in syria, setting up assad as the only alternative to a full isis takeover. emerging from a meeting this afternoon with his russian counterpart, secretary of state john kerry acknowled...

2 fighting assad. kevin mccarthy admitted the strategy was what everyone thought from the start to knock down hillary clintons poll numbers. mccarthy was defending his record and argued his speakership would deliver victories for republicans. >> what you are going to see is a conservative speaker that takes a conservative congress, that puts a strategy to fight and win. let me give you one example. everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special co...

Fighters from airstrikes? >> your question points up the whole contradiction here in the russian position, which is that by taking on, by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, you are taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> that is not our position. we believe that at least some parts of the anti-assad opposition long as part of the political transition going forward. so thats one of the reasons, in fact, it is the central reason why the r...

Whole contradiction here in the russian position, which is that by taking on, by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, youre taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. that is not our position. we believe that at least some parts of the anti-assad opposition belong as part of the political transition. going forward. so thats one of the reasons why, in fact, the central reason why russian approach here is doomed to fail and i hope that they come ...

Common way but were not at that point yet and worth trying to get to that point. >> have a responsibility for that, protecting them as we have heard in the past? we have heard in the past, i believe you testified on the hill the coalition has a responsibility to protect the opposition forces, specifically the ones trained by the u.s. but the larger opposition forces, whens the coalition responsibility if theyre coming under air strikes by the russians? it seems they are by the assad regime? >> w...