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Its a monumental event to undertake the potential impeachment of a president of the united states. lindsey graham characterizing his lunch with the president, talking about the presidents frustration about how all of it has gone them he feels clearly under seat based on what was just shared with us by senator graham. he also did talk a little bit about the syria process and we are going to get back to general keane in a moment to get more feedback from him on what was said about that but first l...

>> reporter: the word no has been a part of russians diplomatic vocabulary and he used it three times saying no, theres no planned meeting at theoment wean rex tilrson and president putin. but if putin didnt meet him i think it would be a sign of putins displeasure of those u.s. missile strikes. peskov said theres no alternative to the syrian peace process largely based in geneva at the moment which is u.s. is not part of. he says there was no cooperation by america in the syria process at the m...

Part of the six-party process on north korea. the russians are part of the syria process. so i think we do need to kind of work with the russians on these international issues. and i think its also important that we have a kind of grander strategy, if you will, where were working with china and other countries. we need russia to understand that they are going to be diplomatically limited by what they have done in ukraine. and by the way, i dont think crimea is going to really help russia. i thin...

The iranians? >> they already feel there is weakening because iran is having trouble selling oil. >> chris: but continuing the centrifuges and enriching. >> the more trouble they have selling oil the more likely they are to come to the table. that is the view because that is where they make the bulk of the money and what supports their government. the sanctions already in effect are making if very, very difficult for them to sell that oil. >> chris: kim, about 30 seconds. >> things tend to blow ...

The iranians? >> they already feel there is weakening because iran is having trouble selling oil. >> chris: but continuing the centrifuges and enriching. >> the more trouble they have selling oil the more likely they are to come to the table. that is the view because that is where they make the bulk of the money and what supports their government. the sanctions already in effect are making if very, very difficult for them to sell that oil. >> chris: kim, about 30 seconds. >> things tend to blow ...

Carnage. >> how do you negotiate with somebody like bashar al assad. >> we dont. we are not going to be the ones to negotiate with him. it is important that the trump administration has taken a harder line on russia. this is a 180-degree reversal from their rhetoric in the first month and thats positive. youre never going to get a settlement inside syria unless you play hard ball with the russians. were doing that. this is not something that is going to be negotiated by the united states. its go...

Right now is trying to defeat isis. well deal with assad later. ultimately its going to have to happen through a political process. so the question for sean spicer today, for president trump, what is the policy when it comes to aside. what are the next steps no syria. one more point thats important, the administration seemed to stress over and over again that they are open topo tenlly taking more action. of course last week we had the air strikes -- if it is deemed necessary. theres a lot on the...