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A republican majority, have passed all 12 appropriation bills ahead of the fiscal year deadline but as you know the senate can filibuster those things. so, we will pass a short-term cr that is necessary to keep the government open to keep talks going, hopefully people will decide to participate in the talks, and at the senate democrats choose to filibuster that they will have chosen to shut the government down, something we do not want to see happen. >> senator collins claims she has an agreement with senator mcconnell to get the alexander murray issue addressed before the end of the year and ...

>> regime clank is something we think is going to happen because all of the parties are going to see that assad is not the leader that needs to be taking place for syria. >> reporter: secretary of state rollergirl soviet republic, however, appeared to say the opposite, placing his faith in a political process inside syria over any outside action. i think our strategy in syria, as you know, it's first the defeat of isis and through that political process that we believe the syrian people will ultimately be able to decide the fate of bashar al assad. >> reporter: white house press secretary sean...

Happen in the future because of the iranian/russia differences, in their own end games. both of them want influence. and for a while, iran was leading in terms of being the most influential external actor in syria. now, russia is playing that role. russia wants syria to be strong and influential through them. iran wants them to be weak so it can influence from the bottom-up. therefore, the russian/iranian end game is interesting in syria. it can only add to the nervousness of iran because it's another thing that means that its own interests might not quite be realized in syria. but again, we s...

Looks like noah's ark. there are two of everything. you have a general challenge to the issue of record and authority in the middle east. and this is not something that can be measured in administration time. this is something likely to be measured more in generation. >> so, in 20 seconds, do you think this finally you know, will end within the next few years or is this just with us forever? >> i think abandon the notion of a solution. think outcomes and yeah, i think there's a reasonable chance that within the next several years, you could bring a mod camera of stability to a highly combustib...

Stop the rockets, or is there a broader goal? is the broader goal the demilitarization of gaza, removing the rockets entirely like the syrian chemical weapons were removed from syria, or is the goal to bring down hamas? >> either of those end games, those options that you lay out there that the israeli government is likely considering, come with a price that comes in the form of lives, basically. we have seen a large loss of life on the palestinian side and huge numbers of people injured. let me ask you about the cost for israel in the court of public opinion. >> it is a significant cost, isha...