question, what does it look like a year from now? or what is actually your best case scenario for syria if assad is gone, and compare this in a way to iraq, with multiple different groups and factions coming together in some way, it was disjointed. >> and the answer was what? >> that the current situation in iraq, the numbers of different groups coming together, because there are so many different factions within syria right now. i don't think there is a good solution out there. but certainly relying on russia is not the right solution. >> senator john mccain seems convinced he has been over there a number of times. i pay a lot of attention to people who have been there and talked to people on the ground, he believes that arming the rebels is a good idea. and that the rebels, it is a defined group of rebels that are good for us to arm and stand behind. do you get the sense the president thinks there is that group? >> well, the president used the