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Academia, it's accepted to say islamist and islamic. that to me is a red herring. two of the countries on the list, iraq and syria, consist of people, muslims who are fighting the war against isis on the front line, keeping america safe. i just got off the phone today with a guy called mustafa, a political director of a brigade called the mutasa, which is backed by the pentagon for one purpose of the war in syria, to fight isis. they cannot fight assad, hezbollah, russia, iran. the pentagon is backing him for that purpose. he said, we already have a target on our back because we're seen as ame...
This is what you wrote today for cnn.com. you ended by saying "it's a fancied-up version of a con man looking for his mask." sorry, looking for his mark. you're saying he's trying to manipulat manipulate. >> you see someone not great at calculating national interests. he said it's wonderful for putin to be in syria because putin is fighting isis. well everyone now knows, not just on tv, that putin is not in syria to fight isis, he there's to back up aside and fight assad's other opponents including people who back, whom the turks back. and if you look at the way that putin deal with journalist...
It will be a blow to iran and russia. >> reporter: it's a position once shared by the obama administration, which after four years of saying assad must go now agrees with the majority of republicans that he should stay. at least for the time being. >> united states and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change as it is known in syria. >> reporter: after marathon talks in moscow secretary of state john kerry accepted president putin's long-standing demand that the syrian people decide assad's fate. >> translator: we think that syrian people alone should determine who they want to rul...
Agree that assad's bloody crack down on the syrian people created the space for isis to rise. they say regime change would only allow the terror group to grow further. >> welcome these republican candidates -- >> reporter: making their pitch to be the next commander in chief the republican candidates show cased their strategy to defeat isis. one by one they argued syrian president assad, long viewed as the cause for isis growth is now key to its defeat. >> we have to do one thing at a time. we can't fight isis and fight assad. >> there will be chaos. i think isis will then be in charge. >> ass...