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Congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. i met these young fighters, these battalion commanders. i met 1 of them. they're tough. >> we have a senator over there who had his picture taken with kidnappers. i don't know how good a job we're going to do vetting those who are going to get the arms. >> the split in the gop on how or even whether to assist syrian rebels comes as the e...

And they show no signs of letting up. >> kasie, you recently wrote about john mccain's trip to syria. rand paul has accused mccain of posing for a photo with men who may have been involved in lebanese shiites. this is a claim the senator's office denies. here's what senator mccain is saying about it today. >> i found out that these individuals are very tough. they're battle hartened. they're very dedicated. they are not al qaeda. they are not extremists. i met with some 19 battalion commanders, both in turkey and in syria, but they're badly outgunned. >> in terms of the roles of these 19 with ...

Sizeable force. he has battalion commanders he is in communications with. is it a perfect organization, of course not, because they're fighting as an insurgency, no insurgencies are perfect. there is a point that congressman rogers has, and that is every single day, more and more extremists flow in. whether it be from iraq, whether it be from yemen, whether it be from libya, they're flowing in all of the time. these extremists. but they still to not make up a sizeable portion. for example, there's about 7,000 al nusiria, several thousand fighting in syria. we can identify who these people are....

You know there is one of the most well-known, probably well-equipped groups is actually aligned with al qaeda in iraq. how do you prevent weapons from falling into their hands? >> well, by identifying those people who are on our side. the general has a very sizeable force. he has battalion commanders he is in communications with. is it a perfect organization, of course not, because they're fighting as an insurgency, no insurgencies are perfect. there is a point that congressman rogers has, and that is every single day, more and more extremists flow in. whether it be from iraq, whether it be fr...

>> which rebel groups did you meet with and what was their message to you? >> the overall commander of the syrian resistance was my escort, and i had a long meeting. they selected the people that we met with, which was a group of battalion commanders, who were fighting as far away as aleppo and around syria. their message was, to be frank with you, they do not understand. they do not understand why we won't help them. >> in terms of arming the rebels, though, as you know, one of the concerns, certainly the administration has, is that weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists or extremists...