Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161208:02:41:00
For quite a very long time. >> the president was skeptical. he saw the syrian civil war as a quagmire in which the moderates were too few, too weak and too disorganized to prevail. >> i think this notion that somehow there was this readymade, moderate syrian force that was able to defeat assad is simply not true. >> jay tells me you guys have been missing me. >> then, in august, 2012, at a routine press conference obama appeared suddenly willing to use force against assad. >> a red line for us is we start saying seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that wou...