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Precisely one of the problems with the whole approach. by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, you're taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> taking out other rebel groups including the u.s. backed free syrian army could work in favor of the russian strategy in syria, setting up assad as the only alternative to a full isis takeover. emerging from a meeting this afternoon with his russian counterpart, secretary of state john kerry acknowledged the broader political solution of the conflict remains a long way off. >> even as we don't have...

2 fighting assad. kevin mccarthy admitted the strategy was what everyone thought from the start to knock down hillary clinton's poll numbers. mccarthy was defending his record and argued his speakership would deliver victories for republicans. >> what you are going to see is a conservative speaker that takes a conservative congress, that puts a strategy to fight and win. let me give you one example. everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. why? because she...

Fighters from airstrikes? >> your question points up the whole contradiction here in the russian position, which is that by taking on, by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, you are taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> that is not our position. we believe that at least some parts of the anti-assad opposition long as part of the political transition going forward. so that's one of the reasons, in fact, it is the central reason why the russian approach here is doomed to fail and i hope that they come over to a point of view where they...

Whole contradiction here in the russian position, which is that by taking on, by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, you're taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. that is not our position. we believe that at least some parts of the anti-assad opposition belong as part of the political transition. going forward. so that's one of the reasons why, in fact, the central reason why russian approach here is doomed to fail and i hope that they come over to a point of view where they try to pursue their objectives in a different way that makes mo...

Common way but we're not at that point yet and worth trying to get to that point. >> have a responsibility for that, protecting them as we have heard in the past? we have heard in the past, i believe you testified on the hill the coalition has a responsibility to protect the opposition forces, specifically the ones trained by the u.s. but the larger opposition forces, when's the coalition responsibility if they're coming under air strikes by the russians? it seems they are by the assad regime? >> we have conducted air operations against isil, al nusra and other targets. it is not our practice ...