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Syria for a very long time. this is their principle client state in the arab world. it's been collapsing. he's trying to prop it up. i think that's hardly someone who's in a strong position. >> reporter: now this all comes two days after president putin and president obama met at the u.n. we know that the two leaders clashed over the issue of sir gentleman but they did talk about the possibility of some type of coordination with the two nations launching air strikes. when you talk about that clash though, brian, it is on this issue of assad. again, president beauten believes that the key to fi...

Say which targets they were aiming at and which targets were immediately hit. >> are you taking putin's word that he is only going after the isis? >> well, the department of the military will take a look at the activities of the russian mi military, and have a statement on that in the days ahead, but the question does warrant something that deserves mentioning here at the outset which is that we are seeing the russian russians ramp up their support for president assad, and it is clear for some time, and they have made a significant military investment of further propping him up, and the fact t...

President to do in the days and the weeks ahead? >> i want the president to get together with a country that has a stake or influence in the country, and that is going to the include vladimir putin. and people forget that syria was a client state of the soviet union, a nd there is a naval bae there, and so i want them to get together with turkey, and jordan countries rn and yes, iraq, and that is uncomfortable, because it is an appalling regime, but they have influence in the region, and for those folks to get together to phase assad out of power and do two things. describe the post assad syri...

>> i think that russia very much wants to maintain warm water ports and airfield capabilities in the eastern med. they saw that possibly being challenged by the progress on the ground of those opposing the assad regime. >> reporter: putin makes no bones about wanting to prop up bashir al assad. syria is putin's only client state left in the middle east. the personal connection isn't strong, but putin needs assad. >> putin is betting on assad because he has to. he wants to look strong. he wants a state a small state to deal with the syrian quagmire. he's picked assad to get involved with. >> th...

For years. they've had an intelligence relationship with iraq. they announce third-degrd this o play it up. frankly, we're not concerned that this represents an operational commitment of russia to engage in iraq. that's not what we're seeing. we're seeing them move military equipment into syria, which has been their principal client state, frankly, in the region. if you look at what the united states has done, we've taken thousands of air strikes in syria already against isil. we've taken, again, thousands of strikes in iraq. we're working me ththodically t build it up. >> there's a new bipart...