a joint statement today on syria, basically it put out some points of accord there, one of which being that they will continue lines of communication in syria so that their military don't have any incidents and also, a reaffirmation of the belief on both sides that the syrian conflict ultimately does need to be resolved in a diplomatic way. elizabeth, back to you. elizabeth: all right, amy with the latest from hanoi. leland has more. leland: let's bring in eric chang from the heritage foundation and spent a lot of time researching asia. every word a u.s. president says is parsed so closely and watched by foreign leaders. he's on this trip and we heard what he said on air force one on reporters about believing vladimir putin, really in the face of this overwhelming evidence from the u.s. intelligent committee and community. what does that translate to to