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Of "the new york times" today that the rebels include a lot of these extremist elements, who would be no better than assad should they come to power. and so we need to have a debate on that issue. and it should not be just shoe horned in to this narrow resolution on the use of force to prevent and then deter chemical weapons use. >> congressman van hollen, thank you very much for joining me. >> thank you. >> coming up, that shocking video of syrian rebels executing soldiers is next. and in the rewrite tonight, off what chris van hollen just said, the shocking truth on how ronald reagan helpe...

His chemical weapons on his country, after using them in the iraq war. and the united states did nothing, and i always thought it was unusual that the united states, went to war when he didn't even have chemical weapons. so i think we need to send a lesson. but that is distinct from arming the rebels in a toxic civil war where we saw from the front page of "the new york times" today that the rebels include a lot of these extremist elements, who would be no better than assad should they come to power. and so we need to have a debate on that issue. and it should not be just shoe horned in to thi...

Here it is. who winds up being benefitted by this? who takes over? do you improve the situation? are you helping al qaeda or having extremist elements? >> that gets to the obvious question that we don't know why this is being done. this is no stated intended outcome. we know about these unintended consequences being thrown around. how do we want this to end? over a year and a half ago when the death -- or around a year and a half ago when it was around 10,000, there was a meeting and the russians said there is one inevitable question, we never had an answer to that and that goes to the fact we...

Syrian opposition is moderate and wants to be free from a dictator who kills them in the thousands and gases children to death. we provided assistance to a moderate opposition which is in our interest not only because we believe syria should have the future without president assad, but by providing assistance for more moderate opposition can we ensure that we're isolating those extremist elements. we want to make sure the extremists are not the most powerful opposition force in the country. we want to make sure the moderates, the syrian military opposition, the syrian military council, that th...

They feel about sequim the united states. now we're negotiating with them and peace should ben us. >> we know they are still the in the process right now, extremist elements, of the taliban, of attacking u.s. troops still in afghanistan, but most experts would point out that most wars come to an end through a negotiated political solution, and that is what u.s. officials say has to happen here. with some very clear conditions put out for the taliban to adhere to. listen. >> most notably our concerns about taliban connections to international terrorism, and we're in afghanistan, as you well kno...