>> reporter: we've all been watching and indeed the kremlin has been watching the g-7 meeting which rex tillerson has left for signs of a united front from the west and signs of clarity from washington about what its next step in syria will be. clearly rex tillerson will be arriving here with a clear message and that message to russia is drop president assad. assad is toxic. just a short time before he left, rex tillerson said the days of the assad family's rule in syria are numbered. he said a few other interesting things just before he left. let's take a listen to rex tillerson. >> i hope that what the russian government concludes is that they have aligned themselves with an unreliable partner in bashar al assad. assad has made the russians look not so good under these