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As a result of the annexation of crimea, will there be more sanctions? >> there should be. when you say what we could do, we do increase sanctions on russia. >> more activity this turkey? >> shore up the nato allies in the northern part of nato, shore up turkey. go to the allies in the region. jordan, israel, saudi arabia. for example, last week the egyptian prime minister spoke at the united nations and guess what, the american delegation was not there. they boycotted our israeli allies speech ...

Said everything is great, assad has to stay. has on go. vladimir putin said no, assad will stay. next day putin announced a coalition of russia iraq, syria. the next day, get out of sear gentleman because the bombers are going to start in an hour. by the end the week, united states is no longer a player in the middle east. >> so what happens now sha? because russia is looking at what critics say is a vacuum that we created. theyre looking at egypt and obviously libya and saying look at these wea...

Those. >> also hit some isis targets after they got pushback for hitting the sir yayriansyri. >> after being shown to do what they were meaning to do, which was prop up assad. >> i would rather prop up assad than prop up iran. >> then youre propping up iran. >> i would rather prop up iran, assad. >> i would prop them all up and let them all fall. now to the deadly strikes, talking about air strikes. afghanistan over the weekend, terrible, terrible, killed 22 patients and medical staff at a cli...

This is about russia getting involved with an opposite goal of the u.s. one, propping up assad, but two, going against forces. thats a real problem going forward. >> you say let russia meddle in sooe ya. why? >> i dont think this is going to turn out well for them. the irony is they are saying they are doing this in order to fight islamic terrorism. they have a real problem. one of the things to watch is a lot of people have gone to syria and one of the reasons the russians are targeting this ar...

One in which we can share to some extent and, therefore work in a common way. were not at that point yet. i think its worth trying to get to that point. >> we have a responsibility for that, to protecting them as we heard in the past. we heard in the past i believe you testified on the hill, the coalition has the responsibility to protect the opposition forces, specifically the ones trained by the u.s. the larger forces, what is the coalition responsibility if theyre coming under airstrikes by t...

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...

Doing is using that as an excuse to attack americas allie the moderate syrian rebels, assads opponents. hes not attacking isis. hes really going after assad, then he has lied to us. >> what is happening today is one of the leading activisactivs saying one of their lydeie leade killed by a russian airstrike. >> ash carter was -- saying get out of our way is like a slap in our face. number two, if russia uses this as an excuse, were going after isis, they were propping up assad, the third thing, i...

Problem for the united states because he in the u.s. view is the big problem here. he is the one that is killing his own people with his barrel bomb attacks. isis, the additional problem. heres the interesting wrinkle. the u.s. is letting it be. known they would be fine if russia comes in and wants to join the fight against isis. but if all of this is aimed at propping up assad, the u.s. has a big problem. assad has to go, propping him up onk only prolongs the war and the terrible misery that so...

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Assad falls with this pll political transition being worked out with international leaders, if he continues to help iran prop up assad. >> there are reports also that the head of the syrian opposition coalition reports that he resigned this post at some point today. what do we know about that, and what kind of complications could that present for the united states and its allies? >> reporter: it is a complication, because he quit today. it was not unexpected, said kerry. not surprising, but he s...