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Understand that implication. >> that's the question he asking. >> tucker: slow down, senator. that's not relevant to why i asked the question. i hope you are not trying to impugn my motive tying me to putin as some on the left do. let me ask again, we were told a year ago that the sarin gas attack in syria was committed by assad's regime. we learned two months ago that we don't really know that that we were lied to about that. i would think as a u.s. senator you would have an interest in getting to the truth because the chute matters, doesn't it. >> i think it's perfectly fine for someone in a...

Security interest that would be changed by regime change. can you think of downsides, death, cost, et cetera. how would this country become safer by overthrowing assad. >> i'm not sure regime change is still our goal there it was the goal of barack obama and hasn't really been our stated goal during this trump administration. but, defeating isis in iraq and in syria is still our goal. and i think that is in the national interest. >> tucker: but wasn't defeating isis one of the goals of the assad government? of course, isis was a radical sunni group. assad is allied with the shiites. he was fig...

Because the secretary of defense -- i'm sorry, i wouldn't typically interrupt you. you suggested i was somehow allied with putin. can i press you on this question. secretary of defense. >> i'm suggest thawing asked the same question that he asked. >> tucker: so i must be a russian agent. i get it? >> i'm not saying that at all. i'm not saying that at all. >> tucker: it's an obvious question actually. the secretary of defense said we didn't have proof but you apparently have proof that the secretary of defense doesn't have. could you characterize it for us? >> no. >> why? >> i'm not going to ge...

Using chlorine gas last weekend? well it, wouldn't. assad's forces have been winning the war in syria. the administration just announced its plans to pull american troops out of syria. having vanquished isis. that's good news for assad. and about the only thing he could do to reverse it and hurt himself would be to use poison gas against children. well, did he it anyway, they tell us. is he that evil. please. keep in mind this is the same story they told us last april. do you remember that? it was almost exactly a year ago. the new administration announced it was no longer seeking to depose as...

Allianceness place work with the french. if the turks are on our side on this. if we can, in fact, bring people together to say this is unacceptable behavior, then i think we can, in fact, clear out some airspace, allowing the rebels the opportunity and hopefully signal very clearly to the russians and to the iranians, that we are not going to be intimidated by the fact that they are backing bashar al assad. >> bill: general, do you think that there is an opportunity here even though russia called this fake news earlier today? is there an opportunity to appeal to putin? where you make the russ...