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>> cnn's clarissa ward on the turkish border with syria right now. clarissa, there are these meetings going on in moscow right now between the united states and russia about the syrians and about the people that you've spent so much time with covering. there was some support for the actions taken by the u.s. last week, but as they're watching what's going on in moscow right now, what are the people caught in the middle of this? what do the syrians want? >> reporter: i think if you talk to anyone, john, who supports the syrian opposition, there is a feeling of frustration that the trump adminis...

Has made, russia, getting back on the same page will be the logical step. >> the prime minister of great britain spoke yesterday with donald trump saying the west regards the current moment as a window of opportunity in which the russian federation at long last withdraws its support for syrian president bashar al-assad. >> is the meeting with vladimir putin set? we don't know that will happen yet? >> nothing on the schedule for rex to listen to meet with vladimir putin but a foreign minister, you know how these go, the president can sometimes, quote, drop by the meeting and it would be remarka...

Dropping bombs on another country is war. we have to think about what are the ramifications. what may happen from this. will assad reform? will assad get worse? if assad is toppled, will be people who replace him be better or worse? >> two different views right there. joining me is silvia brelly. hearing two sides there. this was war, this was legal. nato backing trump. putting the political aside, legally, could he do this? >> u.s. law does allow the president some leeway to arespond to attacks on actions that are isolated or affect security. the question is this, was legal.

Kinetic action is not war. i think that's difficult. i think most regular americans sitting at home watching the tv would understand dropping bombs on another nation to be war. i'm not saying that what syria did wasn't atroe shus and that we wrrpb aghast at the pictures of babies and children suffering from nerve gas. we have to understand we will be sending our young men, we have some over there already. they are there in the middle of this. really don't they deserve that we obey the constitution and only take them into war according to our oath of office. >> melissa: can you see the benefit ...

Post-apocolyptic nightmare of a city that has been bombarded for months. >> it's cold and they can't get food and water and are not being accepted anywhere. the obama administration essentially blames the assad regime, blames the russians, blames the iranians, but isn't what we are seeing right now, you called this five years in the making, isn't this catastrophe we are watching right now, wasn't it more or less predictable? doesn't the obama administration have to accept some responsibility for it? >> obama administration officials i have spoken to for years have been waiting for this day to ...