Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180414:18:40:00
Going to have a conversation about just why russia is even in syria. this is russia, this is syria. they've had a long history with the soviet union and lart russia s -- later russia as maintaining the 19th century idea of great power status. in the 1950s, the soviet union invested $ 250 million of aid to syria. by 2011 when the syrian civil war began, russia had $4 billion worth of weapons contracts with the assad government. bashar al-assad's father, he was a military officer who trand in russia for years. he mast erered mig fighter jets which soon became the back bone for the air force. but...