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Ultimately comes down to him. >> sam, i mean, to me what was striking to watch the president yesterday in the rose garden was that his command of the issues seemed charitably extremely thin. but this is a place in which he is watching cable news all the time, and that is how he is producing his opinions on things. he doesn't have deeply held strategic visions or world view or a thick ideology or politics. he's sort of watching cable news, and that's how he's making these decisions. >> yeah, i mean that's conceivable. i mean it's also conceivable that that's a story. i mean within weeks of him ...

Hours, russia would carry out operations and resumed more bombing attacks within syria, especially in and around aleppo, and the administration is yet to name the -- the incoming administration is yet to name the secretary of state. what direction should the new administration take with regard to russia and syria? >> well, again, this is where a sense of limits and boundaries are important. in my opinion, vladimir putin has not had that sense for many years. going back to the russian reset in 2009, and in particular, when obama refused to enforce his own red line in syria in 2013, and it's lik...

Based on everything you're hearing, you're seeing, what's happening now? >> reporter: we've been talking to people inside eastern aleppo, wolf, where a quarter of a million civilians and some 8,000 rebels are surrounded by the syrian regime. there's also a russian flotilla warships off the syrian coast to support what is expected to be perhaps a final push on this rebel-held area of aleppo. it could be a very difficult situation for the people who are still inside that city. there's been a month-long humanitarian pause. before that it was a month of relentless, really horrific bombing. 500 peo...

Together. one thing that isis has been telling the civilians, when the kurdish fighters are coming into the city, they'll be slaughtered. that's what they're telling them, they've been living with ongoing airstrikes. they have been living with violence. then all of the things that isis does to people who don't live within the very strict rules of their self-proclaimed caliphate. now they have the terror of this force moving in that they believe, many people with little access to the internet, radio or television might be coming in to do more harm to them. it is a heartbreaking situation. we kn...

United nations security council is holding an emergency meeting on the deteriorating conditions in yemen. cnn senior united nations continue richard roth is there for us so this meeting came at the request of yemen's president, what is he hoping the u.n. request gale do? >> he has said that he would like a halt in the aggression with the security council. the best that the security county sill will do this statement will echo many calls from the security council that will be halted immediately, backing the government of the president who in effect fled the capitol and also condemning the bombi...