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>> there is a pretty shocking video by "the new york times" posted today. it is syrian rebels executing captured assad soldiers, gunshot to the back of the head, naked. if the u.s. attacks syria, do those men in those videos become, by definition, our ally? >> no, in fact, i believe those men in those videos are disadvantaged by an american response to the chemical weapons use, because it in fact empowers the moderate opposition. we all know there are about 11 really bad opposition groups, so-called opposition. they're fighting assad. they are not part of the opposition that is being supported...

Response to the chemical weapons use because it, in fact, empowers the moderate opposition. we all know there are about 11 really bad opposition groups, so-called opposition. they're not -- they're fighting assad. they're not part of the opposition that is being supported by our friends and ourselves. that is a moderate opposition. they condemn what has happened today. and they are -- and we are busy separating the support we're giving from any possibility of that support going to these guys. >> how confident can we be, though, that that support can be cordoned off or quarantined in any way? >...

Us now. how does a limited strike prevent assad from using chemical weapons again? what would be the goal? >> reporter: it is really not clear, jenna. general dempsey said it would take 75,000 u.s. troops on the ground to secure the chemical weapons. there is no plan to do that now. there is no part of the limited strike using tomahawk to go after the chemical weapons stores which are stored underground by the way. here is defense secretary chuck hagel yesterday on the hill. >> if assad is prepared to use chemical weapons against his own people, we have to be concerned that terrorist groups li...

Mission that is similar to iraq. that is similar to afghanistan. what we were promise is that this would be a limited, targeted aerial strike to make sure that the future assad and the present assad and any thug in the world knows the use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians is prohibited. now that is quite different than changing the momentum on the battlefield. jenna: sure. >> that is getting involved. even though we won't have boots on the ground that is quite different and that is just not going to make. jenna: would you be able to work with a future assad if we keep on calling h...

Weapons on the ground in syria if the war continues to deteriorate and al qaeda continues to gain ground. jenna: is that concern enough for you to want a stronger response than what we're hearing? >> what i really want is to help the people on the ground who are fighting assad. the free syrian army, not the al qaeda-related groups. is capable of doing a great deal against the assad regime. if we were working with them, if we were indeed as the president promised some months ago, arming them, then we could worry less about having to do a job later and more about the syrian people fighting for t...