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See it. >> a leader like assad who has murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people is clearly not legitimate. look, there's a huge problem with governance throughout the arab world. legitimate governance that has the support of the people and respects human rights. but i think we can all agree level way beyond any of the a others in terms of the way he has systematically butchered his own people and destroyed his own country. i don't know, you know, what you would say about the folks who haven't stepped over that line, but assad unquestionably has stepped over that line and is no longer l...

>> this is pretty po thathetic. late last month just five days before the chemicals weapons were in syria, he appeared to contradict himself, this is our secretary of state before reverting back to his original position on sunday morning. yesterday tillerson's original statement was partially to blame for assad's behavior using the chemical weapons, let's watch mccain. >> do you think the administration did anything to encourage this behavior by the syrians by saying that the syrian people would determine assad's fate and that removing him is not a priority, things that were said before the us...

Of jail as the revolution was starting because that's who he wanted to fight. that's who he wanted to pit himself against. i will say if it comes down to assad still being in power, i don't believe we can defeat isis, as long as he's out there as a symbol of oppression, then you will have people who, you know, support isis, still coming into syria to fight assad as an illegitimate ruler. so it does no clear path. there's no easy path. we cannot just say we accept assad, period. that sends the wrong signal. >> okay, thank you gentleman. ambassador, i'll just say to the american people let stand...

Let me say that very clearly, does not care about world opinion. he cares about a balance of power. it's a police state. so, especially with russian and iranian health, he's winning in the civil war. he's not going anywhere. basically the war against bashar al assad is winding down and assad is going to stay. >> does he have tickets to the south of france or to moscow? >> he doesn't need tickets. >> what's plan b for these guys. you think he's definitely going to stay? >> absolutely he's doing to stay. he took aleppo, the last major opposition held city of the eastern part of aleppo, he took i...

>> here is how secretary tillerson addressed the question whether his statement was responsible for boldening assad. >> are you aware at all that that was taken as a green light by assad to launch that chemical attack? >> i don't see how that could be the case. this is not the first chemical attack launched by assad. there were two other chemical attacks. this was just the latest of a series of violations. >> ambassador, what's our policy, dump assad or not? to try to dump assad or not? he said we don't have a clarity there. what is it? >> policy in syria clearly in the trump administration, a...