in the spring. we said, well, he can't use them systematically. the timing of this was incredible. it was the middle of august when the president's on vacation, where everybody is out. if you were trying to see what you could get away with, this is exactly what you would do. i absolutely think if we don't do anything, he will continue. >> there was a report today saying the first cia trained opposition fighters are now infiltrating into syria. is there a whole covert action that we -- that the american people do not know about? >> we've been training special forces, if you will, in jordan. the jordanians are very discrete about this. they lie right next to bashar. they don't want to fight him, particularly they don't want to fight him unless they see the americans have made a decision to completely destroy him. so we are ftrying to help. in june, we promised we would