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Auspices the geneva process largely stalled there's a second per track the astonishing to go she ations sponsors of that are russia iran and turkey neither the u.s. nor the e.u. has been involved in pushing those negotiations forward in fact foreign ministers couldn't even be bothered for the past year to hold a meeting about syria they did do so in this february but that was the first time in the year that they'd really spoken about it so suddenly they have rediscovered diplomacy the fact is diplomacy has been going on it's terribly terribly complex the one lever. that might be somewhat usefu...

Partners backed by 73 countries and entities, by the way, is in syria. we are all together in syria for the sole defeat of isis. but when you see a monster attacking his own people, it is incumbent upon the united states to act. so that is why we did this. now, in terms of solving the entire problem in syria, how do we do that? the united states and many other countries believe in the geneva process. that means that it's backed by a gentleman called stefan demastur demastura and that means a political solution eventually for syria. it's a lopping way off, but it means eventually syria can rebu...

There because it was a face-saving out for the obama administration not to do anything. they were supposed to get rid of these weapons concern. paul: right. >> and then they got a foothold. so i think what the president ultimately has to do, we have to change the equation from worrying about what putin's going to do to bad guys worrying about what's america going to do. >> we have to establish leverage on the ground. if president trump -- paul: on the ground, whoa, whoa. you mean troopsesome. >> no, not necessarily troops, paul. there are lots of other things that we can do. paul: okay. >> loo...

Firmly behind the process. many other countries around the dworld as well. that's a political process. we don't see the end result as being achiefed through military means. once the country can be stabilized and we are a lopg way off from that point but when that country does get there the united states and coalition partners, there are 73 members that can help get syria to the geneva process. people will be able to vote for who they want to run that country. imagine the millions of syrians, being able to vote some day in the election is what the united states is pushing for. >> when you look ...

Responsible party. >> you underscore there's still work to be done. what does the president mean when he tweets out "mission accomplished?" >> i think he means mission accomplished in terms of we took out and degraded three chemical weapons sites in syria. we hope that will bring syria to the table. help russia bring syria to the table. letting them know this kind of behavior will not be tolerated. let's take a look back at the number of people who have been killed. innocent civilians in the past numerous years since this all started. 500,000. i'm here at the state department today working. i'...