>> look, when you talk about russia being crucial here and that has been for some time, as you say and russia is also a central subject for this trump administration and it has invested a huge amount of political capital on the campaign and now in trying to improve relations with russia. the question this morning, mr. chairman, is for what? for what? if syria is going to be slaughtering civilians committing war crimes and the russians aren't going to do anything to stop it, where is the united states going to use this capital? >> there's an old saying in the united states army, i used to be an army guy, when the map doesn't match the terrain, time to go with the terrain. so i don't care what their plan was moving forward about assad and russia, this changes everything. they need to make sure that they understand, and assad understands we will not tolerate it. we do have capability. remember, we have a according to the administration and public reports there are u.s. troops