Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170115:01:41:00
Decision was not fthcoming t do that for quite a very long time. >> the president was skeptical. he saw the syrian civil war as a quagmire in which the moderates were too few, too weak, and too disorganized to prevail. >> i think this notion that somehow there was this ready-made moderate syrian force that was able to defeat assad is simply not true. >> jay tells me you've been missing me. >> then in august 2012 at a routine press conference -- >> update us on your latest thinking of where you think things are in syria. >> obama appeared suddenly willing to use force against assad. >> a red li...