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The people who were fighting assad were, you know, they were business people, they were students, they were professionals, who had risen up against his tyrannical rule, that had really kept so much of syria under his thumb. and before him, his father's thumb. if we had been able to move in to help organize and support those people on the ground, maybe we could have made a difference. well, we got to deal with where we are right now. it's obviously now, a different set of circumstances and what the pentagon has been doing hasn't worked. >> do you think putin saw a vacuum and he's filling it bec...

We are going to train up the locals -- in tickets difficult in syria because our fight is against isis but the syrian rebels to a large extent are interested in bringing down assad, rather than necessarily going over isis. some of them in order to survive go back and forth between the two groups. this is the problem that we have, when we vet and figure out who is really going to go after isis versus this whole assad issue going on, the group gets narrower and narrower because we don't want to train these people to be fighting assad, rather than our primary concern, which is to go after isis. s...

Opportunities to take out enemies. >> it turns out the free syrian army are deciding not to be trained by us because we're not letting them go after assad which was their main onlybjective. the army that was supposed to fight doesn't want to fight and we're not doing it either. >> the free syrian army they're fighting assad. the crisis in the middle east they also fight isis. on two fronts they're having to defend a free syria. in many cases the united states's promises have been broken. a lot of them are saying i don't want to be in this training camp because i could be back in protecting my ...

On the ground there. we know, the defense department confirms there are armed drones flying over, although no authorization for strikes right now. i want to ask you both, and i'll start with you, senator casey, at what point do you think the president needs to come to congress to authorize any further level of involvement in iraq? >> well, shannon, i don't think we're at that point yet. i hope that the president will continue to on the path he's been on, which is to assess the situation, make sure our national interests are served. but an interesting development in the last couple of days wher...

On the ground there. we know, the defense department confirms there are armed drones flying over, although no authorization for strikes right now. i want to ask you both, and i'll start with you, senator casey, at what point do you think the president needs to come to congress to authorize any further level of involvement in iraq? >> well, shannon, i don't think we're at that point yet. i hope that the president will continue to on the path he's been on, which is to assess the situation, make sure our national interests are served. but an interesting development in the last couple of days wher...