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Syria problem, the ukraine problem and from the perspective of rex tillerson, frankly, and a lot of people in capitol hill, republican and democratic, the russian hacking of the u.s. election. whether it had a result or not, can be debated forever. the fact is they did do it according to the intelligence agencies and the president has never acknowledged that. tillerson did. he raised it, it seemed, almost incidentally today. this, today, was all about syria. he met with putin for two hours. puti...

Pinprick strikes and everybody laughed at him. everyone. all of the republicans who are now saying, wow, this is such a great, strong, blah, blah, blah, john kerry why say that? if you do small things just symbolic with no real plan or willingness to do a lot more, thats not going to work, okay. and now theres a lot of aspirational thinking this is going to really work. truth is we dont know if its going to work. the only difference between this and 1998, syria is a much, much bigger problem and...

Who are helping the refugees in jordan. ive spoken to some of those people in jordan last year. listen, these refugees are already traumatized by war. the last thing they need is culture shock of being taken over to the united states of america. let them stay here. create a safe zone here. bring more funding in from other countries and from your own country and then when this settles down and we deal with this syria problem they can move back to their homes which is what they want. >> and christ...

Have to figure out what is his russia policy because russia is blocking american interests in many areas. there are areas where it could cooperate. but what does he want to do under ukraine? does he really want to sell out ukraine? does he want to sell out the security of poland to make some deal with vladimir putin? who by the way hes never met. so the idea that they can -- theyll get on famously and do work together, you know, its all guesswork at this point. and trump is a guy for whom first ...

Issue. >> before we do move completely on, what do officials say that secretary kerry -- what is secretary carriy trying to accomplish in moss now just a, here we are talking thing or something thatçc0=ght happen? >> i think its to a large degree, here we are talking. the secretary is paid to talk to tjt guys and bad guys. it is possible to work with the russians on some things. no mart what you think about the iran deal, the russians and the americans work together on the iran deal. so, its no...

>> obviously, maintaining the nuclear power. talking about russia nationalism and also being a player on the world stage. so the influence that they have right now, as we were talking about the hand they show up for at the meeting with president obama, on american soil, but they have the stronger outlook for the conversation we had about siyria and crimea. >> the russians were with the united states during the iran deal. you know, in russias point of view, which is a two-way street. you needed u...

>> forget my parallel. where does the loyalty of the people lie at some point? we found iraq come apart because the sunnis didnt want to fight isis when they came in because they preferred the ice/shariah crowd to what they were getting from the government of the shia. where do the people of the islamic state want to be? do they want to be under islamic state? >> sunnis in syria dont necessarily want to be ruled by isis, but they dont want to be ruled by a shia militia. >> who do they want to be...

Now the black hole that was syria is now spreading over into iraq and going to destabilize iraq -- >> what i can report to you from the humanitarian front, its getting worse. the people have been knocked out of their homes twice, three, four, five times. >> david, weve got to get news really quickly and get dan senor as well. if the united states continues to do nothing, continues to take inaction as we did in syria. if we have that same approach to iraq as many are suggesting on capitol hill, h...

United states play to deal with the situation in iraq, what are the elements you would recommend to them? >> first of all, if the president agrees that we have a strategic interest in heading off what is not just an iraqi problem, its an iraq and syria problem. the critical mistakes in 2011 were not just not doing anything about syria, but also withdrawing fully from iraq. we now have this big ungovernable space that will have all the attributes of afghanistan pre 9/11 but on much more valuable ...

Definable in the cold war. you were with either the ruskies or you were with us. now, they have brought out thousands of years of animosity, you cant blame obama for not having the kind of very clearly defined lines that the cold war gave us. >> oh, no, no, you can. i actually think you can. there was a very clear line after 9/11 and it was one that the media made fun of, it was president bushs you are either with us or you are against us. i think it goes back to the red line syria problem that ...