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Favor of winning. if he stays in power, iran is winning, hezbollah is winning. they are winning everywhere. if they are winning how can we be winning? >> i think al assad is a bad guy. a lot of people killed. we are backing people we have no idea who they are. the rebels, we have no idea. a lot of people think that they are isis. we have to do one thing at a time. we can't be fighting isis and fighting al assad, al assad is fighting isis, russia is fighting isis and iran is fighting isis. we have to do one thing at a time. lindsey graham said i have been here for ten years. but he will be ther...

Russia will keep on bombing different targets, washington taking aim at isis, moscow hitting u.s.-backed forces fighting al assad. still, based on their conversations, the president is convinced putin may be shifting his calculation in syria away from supporting assad, but mr. obama cautioned, during a news conference today, that may not happen any time soon. here's what he had to say -- >> mr. putin, i don't expect that you're going to see a 180-turn on their strategy over the next several weeks. they have invested four years in keeping assad in power. predicated on propping him up. and so th...

Succeeded, americans, going to syr syria. >> you did see the study, 300 americans acting in effect as isis ambassadors on twitter, many of them women of the 300, many women. what is the attraction? especially to women here in the united states to go out there and serve the cause of isis? >> well, you know, some have a romantic delusion they'll marry the man of their dreams of. we've done research of the women going, many are getting married and seeing them taking part in heroic religious struggle against assad and restoring the caliphate, a whole set of reasons. seeing american females recruit...

Troops, 200,000 reservists, the president saying there's nearly 100 kilometers on their border with syria where they are not patrolling. there's a transit point for foreign fighters. isis is shipping out oil from syria into turkey for sale to fund their terror operations. what's going on? turkey is a nato ally. can't they close up that 100-kilometer area of the border? >> that's a huge part of the problem. we have two clear missions in syria. we have to get rid of assad. assad is not a legitimate leader. and second, we have to get rid of isis. part of what fuels isis is assad. >> why isn't tur...

Syria against assad, right? >> that's exactly right. to go to war, to overthrow another country's government, this is something that congress must authorize. but this is something that's been ongoing from the united states here now for a few years with this arming and quipping, this cia program, to provide weapons and ammunition and support to these groups, some of them islamic extremist groups to overthrow the syrian government of assad. >> congresswoman tulsi gabbard of hawaii, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. coming up, prisoner swap frees ex-wife of the world's most-wanted terrorist....