allied commander, he says russia's involved in syria, equipment is deplying, anti-aircraft equipment, nothing to do with isis. what does it have something to do with? >> i think russia's feeling the power vacuum. we've had a failure in foreign policy in the region. we have not dealt effectively with assad or isis, and i think mr. putin sees an opportunity to move back into the middle east since the first time really since the afghan war. and now we have the russian, iran, syrian geopolitical alliance. i think mr. putin has called checkmate now on the united states in this power move into the region. >> it's not surprising they've worked out this intelligence cooperation with syria, support al assad's regime, or iran, for that matter what happen is surprising is that the iraqi government is part of this russian intelligence cooperation right now, despite all of the u.s. support, military