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The white house about a post-bashar al assad regime? >> that's a difficult question, and i'm not sure anybody has a good answer. there's going to be a fight for power once that happens. and you know, one of the things the white house has been trying to get russia to move on is, you know, to sort of drop their support for assad and make this happen faster, which it would if russia did that. russia has been saying, you guys don't have a plan. there is no plan after he falls. that could get worse. that's become an issue, has been an issue for a long time. right now, i don't think there's a great ...

But i think mr. fletcher had it very right on what the israeli red lines are and what the israelis are going to do when they see those red lines crossed. >> ambassador chris hill, always appreciate your insight, sir. thank you. >> thank you. when congress returns from recess this week, will it be able to focus on immigration reform as planned or will all eyes turn to syria? with me now, new york congressman, hakim jeffries. congressman, good to see you. >> good to see you, craig. >> first of all, off bat here, what do you make of the latest developments in this part of the world? >> i think ...

>> reporter: well, craig, israel's been watching obviously very carefully the unfolding events in syria, the two-year civil war, and they've always said that their red line is when syria and if syria begins to move weapons that israel calls game-changing weapons to lebanon, to israel's enemy there, hezbollah, israel will attack. israel will prevent those weapons from being deployed. and that's what happened twice in the last three days. so the last attack, very early this morning, sunday morning, israeli war planes attacking syria. and what they were attacking was a specific weapons facility, ...

All together. >> we know what's going to come out of the u.n. security council. >> by himself and do anything. >> a russian security council, you're not going to see, likely, a resolution that's passed. it will probably be vetoed, anything he puts forward. this thing in syria has been going on a long time. it's not like we haven't been cautious already. >> at the very least, we can try to create some sort of space to allow the u.n. to go in and determine, were there even chemical weapons used, and to get that on the books, so if there's going to be any assumption about what's happening in syri...

Not boots on the ground, u.s. leadership through intelligence and training and other things and coordination of their activities, which they're asking for could be hugely helpful to bringing the regime down quicker, number one, and trying to at least have a stabilizing force exist after this happens. and that's our biggest concern. >> can arming the rebels with u.s. intelligence really help bring down the assad regime? >> i frankly doubt it. the fact that this war has gone on for two years should convince most people that this is a pretty deep-seeded problem, that there are many people willing...