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Decisively outclassed. how might the obama administration's stalling on syria impact iran? impact rouhani's strategy on his own nuclear assets? >> you know, brooke, in fact, president obama came to this encounter, came to this chess game, if you will, with the iranians and rouhani and the foreign minister, he came weakened by the way he handled syria. i think the iranians watched him in syria. we had a proxy war in syria on one side, the opposition forces, the rebellion, and supposedly with the democracies behind them. on one side, the bashar al assad regime. i think the iranians have won this...

President was, that the opening of the u.n. would give them a chance to, you know, maybe even do more. >> want to talk about this development and about iran's new president with fouad ajami, senior fellow at stanford's university senior institution. welcome. just yesterday, israel said they wouldn't even listen to rouhani's speech at the united nations until he at least acknowledged the holocaust happened. as we saw with the interview with christiane. he did that, you have been incredibly skeptical of rouhani, his motives, his new outreach. does this change your mind? >> no, brooke, it doesn't...

Told them the truth, how i honestly felt and what our interests were and what our objectives were and they appreciated when i didn't kick them around in public. that's my experience. >> did putin every renege on a personal agreement he made to you? >> no, he did not. >> so behind closed doors, he could be trusted? >> he kept his work in all of the deals we made. >> he also talked about the president of iran. wait until you hear about what he said about rouhani's ground breaking comments about comments, specifically the holocaust. that's next. i've got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. ...

And president rouhani. let's start with iran because that's always a big talking point at the cgi. christiane amanpour interviewed him, and compared to the interview i did with mahmoud ahmadinejad last year, struck a much more conciliatory tone, especially admitted there had been a holocaust. what did you make of that? how important is that kind of concession, and do you see a real shift there in the relationship with america? how much do you trust him? >> well, first of all, i think it's interesting commentary on the world in which we're living that admitting that the holocaust occurred quali...