operations against all of those fighting asad. >> the u.s. is backing some of them. let's say the u.s.-backed syrian rebels come under attack by the russian, does the u.s. support the people that we've trained and equipped to be even though there are not many of them to be on the ground. >> i keep thinking of the scene from "red october" where they say this is going to get out of hand and people will die. the problem with this image we're hearing for the first time, is that talking about as if that is the diplomatic priority, deconfliction, when in reality the russians are bombing our defacto allies on the ground as part of their larger strategy, deflect from ukraine. reassert dominance in the middle east. this has been a per nekt seminar in what you get in reality when you go into the white house with the ideology that the president