loin and don't react, then i don't think you have credibility. >> where do you go from here? i know you think the deal is a loser. what else do you do at this point? >> dramatically step up our assistance to the 3r50e syrian anymore. >> do you think congress should be involved? >> this is done by the intelligence committees and would be in agreement, look, until you reverse the momentum on the battlefield and bashar al-assad thinks he is going to lose is the only way you get a negotiated dependentture of bashar al-assad. as long as he thinks he is winning. then he will continue, particularly with the assistance he is getting from the russians and the iranians. as we speak today, there will be a plane load of arms, conventional weapons landing from moscow to be used to kill syrians at the same time, we are dismantling the chemical weapons stocks. that's crazy. >> if this does move forward. >> yes. >> do you think u.s. troops should be involved, on the ground? >> never, never, never.