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Provide a foundation for the administration to find common ground with russia? what do you make of the news that came out of the g20 summit that the president of syria or the president of russia have agreed to this limited cease fire? we don't know if it's going to hold indefinitely or spread to the rest of the country. what do you make of the progress or apparent progress being made will? >> i hope we can actually make progress. one of the stipulations we have to have is assad has to be removed. you can't have assad at the end of this whole chaos and still have 10 million refugees that won't ...

So i think there's -- there has to be continuing conversations with russia on many different topics. we want to make sure that we don't end up in conflict with them as well. at the same time, we have to be prepared in case we have to be and be prepared to show strength and make sure that they don't go further than we want them to in our interests in places like the ukraine or syria. >> i want to touch on the multiple fly zone that's the russians have cooked up and we should not interfere in those zones. so we obviously would not honor that. what happens when one of our planes fly into that? >>...

Nichols who has more. >> defense secretary james mattis starting a week-long tour of the middle east with a brief stop in africa. here in saudi arabia, meetings with officials on the agenda. the war in yemen a few hundred miles south of here. official position from the trump administration, they want to accelerate u.n. brokered talks. they see a peace brokered agreement through the u.n. also on the agenda, the fight against isis. on the plane we spoke with the secretary of defense and he said the de-confliction line -- didn't necessarily say it was open but he said they're de-conflicting. ther...

De-confliction line. that line has been very useful for news the past to avoid fatality. it was useful for us on the night of the strike both in our prenotification to the russians and the immediate communication afterwards. >> are we not talking about the de-confliction line because it's not being used? >> no. that's not what i'm saying. >> the operation goes on. the operations are going safely right now. go ahead. >> you're a student of history, a student of strategy. you talked about red lines, the president talked about red lines. the russians have talked about red lines. at what point is ...

We could strike a blow against violent extremism, not only in syria, but also in iraq, and across the middle east and around the world and nothing would be more in keeping with the high purpose for which this council was created 70 years ago and nothing would better serve the interest of the people we represent. i hope we can achieve that. thank you. >> there is the secretary of state john kerry and from the words of grave concern if russia hits anything that has nothing to do with al-qaeda or syria and they are friday a de-confliction talk. it feels like this just got worse? >> secretary john...