churchi churchill/russia. very helpful. thank you, chris. >> thank you. thank you. >> we will we be back. i want to bring in nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel covering the syrian civil war intensively who tonight is here the border in syria/turkey. heading into the speech tonight, the developments of the last day and a half have made it seem less lakely the u. ikely the u.s going to do anything in syria from where you stand in turkey and the region does it seem that way over there? how is that being received? >> we have spoke tine sen to sy rebels. they were drawing up war plans, 48 hours ago. setting up special units so they could take advantage of the momentum. we have spoken to them tonight. they're absolutely crushed. they think that the military action is not coming. that the united states held out false hope for them. and that -- in their opinion,