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We must support him, the world should support him because he's fighting isis. the russian government says that it supports assad because it wants to make sure that isis is destroyed and of course now the president of the united states has often said that he thought it was worth supporting russia, maybe even supporting assad, hand syria over to assad because he will defeat isis. you actually witnessed in aleppo what was meant to be a battle before the assad regime was fighting isis. let's watch the clip and then you tell me more about this. [ speaking foreign language ]

>> so i guess the simple question is, you really did not see the assad regime ever fight isis? >> never. like, um, unless there is a drama or a play or a game played between both parties to convince, not us syrians because they don't care for us, but to play a game, to convince the international community that, hey guys, we're fighting isis. in aleppo, aleppo city, it was completely governed by the civilians, and then the free syrian army fighting there, they are the -- what they call them moderates, but they are the free syrian army -- >> not isis. >> no isis there. and all of the sudden, the...

Basis to eradicate all of ale o aleppo. and they did, they demolished the whole city and pushed 500,000 people outside the town. >> and where is isis in this? >> isis is all in rocca, so it has not presence in aleppo, and they pushed all the civilians outside and then they took like -- they paraded in front of the syrians that we liberated aleppo from isis. >> the russian air strikes, there are reports that they hit hospitals, orphanages, is that true? >> yes. they targeted only schools, hospitals, and the main service delivery, like bakeries, hospitals, schools, and by doing this, they were m...

Highest levels of the russian government were involved. what's your recommendation? what does the u.s. do about that? >> let me be clear -- i want -- i want the investigation, first of all, and i want the people who address these eschews every day, those 17 agencies to come back with their recommendations. i'm not the expert in this area. that's why we have experts. i want to hear what they have to say, after all, we do pay them the $70 billion a year, and i'm sure they'll come back with recommendations and hopefully the congress and president will follow those recommendations, wolf. >> elijah...

Describe the situation in ale o aleppo. is this tees cease-fire for real? >> reporter: you know, that's something the next couple of hours, wolf, will be decisive in telling whether it is actually going to be for real or whether or not it could get derailed. it has the backing of those who wield the most power prp the russian, the turks involved in brokering the cease-fire and rebel factions behind it also. by all estimates it is something that should happen and it's something that potentially will save a lot of lives, because there was a lot of fire power bearing down on that small rebel encl...