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Risk for an armed conflict with russia. hearing you, the chairman of the foreign relations committee say that is somewhat terrifying. do you think that the u.s. should be preparing for an armed conflict with russia? >> no, what i'm saying is, look, our relations are at that low point. the lowest since the cuban missile crisis. our leadership knows that. secretary mattis knows that. and therefore, you know, the rhetoric, the kinds of things we're doing to deacon conflict in syria are very important, because things are hot right now between us. and it's not that we should be preparing, it's that...

You know, it's not a good thing. it does not help the fact that we have hundreds of men and women in harm's way right now both in syria and iraq. they are within striking distance of assad's army, of hezbollah, of many other actors that would gladly strike at our men and women if they feel threatened. and they may feel threatened just because we are being so unpredictable within our own actions including the men and women flying missions right now all over syria. this is why we have operations to deacon conflict with russia to make sure we are not shooting at each other. whatever we are doing ...