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Rebels and government. and assad will control the four major cities. alep aleppo and others. but he doesn't control the whole country. he says he wants it back. certainly in the days ahead, we can expect many more. hours of fighting. and an increasing death toll, sadly. >> i'm joined now by bob corker of tennessee. senator corker, if you had to give advice on an intimate basis with the colonel president, or the incoming president, what would you tell him to do to try to stop this horror? >> well, look. we've been giving advice for four or five years, chris. this was said to be on the front end...

Trying to get it back on track, but, of course, with every minute that passes and with every shell that continues to be fired, the hope of that happening becomes more bleak, brianna. >> all right. fred pleitgen monitoring the situation in aleppo. thank you. american involvement in syria mostly limited to training and helping local forces in the fight guess isis. a few days ago the pentagon announced a new deployment of u.s. troops to syria nearly doubling the number of american forces authorized to operate in syria. is a reid far fariq zakaria spoke to president obama. >> and -- actually got...

Including women and children has fallen apart. there is shooting again. a deal made yesterday and hope tens of thousands of civilians could be evacuated from aleppo, syrian rebels held since the arab spring. today witnesses say the syrian army is crossto taking aleppo back. frederik pleitgen just left aleppo, watching from beirut and tell us who broke the cease-fire and what this means for all of those people trapped in the middle of the fighting. >> reporter: well, it's absolutely devastating for those civilians trapped there in the middle of the fighting. some reports that we're getting is t...

Complicated syria that i think he feels he has a simple answer to, which is, to hand it over to assad, and, in fact, assad is now doing better and better. the assad forces are likely to take over aleppo, but it won't solve the problem, because assad run what is still in many ways a minority regime in syria. he is an alawite, minority of 15% in syria. maybe has support of some sunnis, clearly i think he does, but there are a large number of people in syria who are in violent positions against the assad regime. saying simply, well, let assad handle it, isn't going to work, and it is out of that ...

Backlash from some of the agencies that feel that they're being undermined. that creates constitutional problems and it certainly creates the prospect for a lot of conflicts in this administration in the years to come. >> we have our work cut out for us. we do. carol lee, molly ball, thank you to both of you. up next, the cease-fire we reported on just 24 hours ago in alep aleppo, syria is now in shambles. the dire situation there, more desperate than ever. start yours with philips sonicare, the no.1 choice of dentists. compared to oral-b 7000, philips sonicare flexcare platinum removes sign...