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They have taken over this whole area. >> reporter: the government militia continues to torture and murder their own people, using tanks in surprise raids. >> translator: i'm not the only one whose life has been destroyed or whose husband is missing. everyone in this country has a missing person or a destroyed home or is displaced. we have been through so much. we have suffered and have come to hate life because of all these problems. >> reporter: e-mails obtained by cnn apparently from the assad private e-mail accounts show throughout it all, they continue to live a life of luxury. one day in ...

Kill more of his own people. it goes beyond that. it's important to point out how this is a national security issue for the united states directly. not only our interest in the region but they could try to deploy the weapons to israel, to go to turkey, go to the kurds, our allies in iraq. we had to take action here. i think it was good he took such a decisive step. i think respectfully with regard to senator paul, i think he is wrong here. this was a national security threat. if there are additional strikes that are coming up, there's a longer term engagement or there are issues we decide we h...

And labeling them terrorists and it did ultimately, obviously, isis grew and he released extremists from syrian prisons and kind of created the enemy that he was originally calling the peaceful protesters. >> president assad best understands the language of force. i don't think he is worried his credibility when he tells falsehoods, when he tells lies. to him it's all about balance of power. the balance of military forces on the ground, that's how he operates many that's how the syrian government operates. it's a police state. >> is it clear to you right now what the trump administration polic...

Let's bring in the panel, fareed zakaria, mark hertling and c and clarissa ward. have you seen or heard talk of a shift in the balance of power or any kind of change on perceptions of the balance of power? >> well, i think, anderson, you are not going to see a shift on the battlefield in terms of this is unlikely to really reign in the winning streak that the regime of assad has been on. but where you might see a bit of shift in balance is in this larger proxy war. for a long time now, the u.s. has essentially been sitting on the sidelines kind of ringing its hands over what to do and who if a...

Sorry, regarding syria. we have used the military against isis. we have used -- attempted in the obama administration to use massive amount of diplomacy with the russians and the syrians. those are only two of the powers and they're not synchronized. if you bring all the elements of national power to bear, diplomacy, military, economy, information, we're starting to see some informational tools being used against the russians because they have been the ones supporting assad. the last thing i would say is, yes, our main fight should be against isis. but as long as assad is there, isis will cont...