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Takes the russians at the word because at the beginning of the briefing he said the actions are a logical contradiction between what the russian position is and what they're actually doing in syria so then coming back to say i take them at their word. they said they were connecting air strikes and they're conducting them. but they said it's against isis and it is not. secretary carter himself would not specifically say what opposition forces he believes the u.s. military believe it is russians are targeting with the strikes but he did acknowledge that they're conducting strikes in an area wher...

Homs, on the other hand, is on the west side of the country near where the russians have their warm water port. it's over where they have a large military build-up. and it is over closer to damascus where, of course, bashar al assad is maintaining his seat of power. so to give you a sense of why the u.s. military officials and defense officials i'm speaking to don't believe that this was actually a strike against isis, there's really no isis in that area. the u.s. coalition is not conducting strikes there. the russians, on the other hand, since they put in their military facilities there and b...

This is primarily an area where there's syrian opposition forces as opposed to the isis, the terrorists that the u.s. coalition are strike against. >> courtney, stand by for me as we bring in the conversation with michael kaye, a former british advisor with the min stir of defense in the u.k. you are very familiar with this region but also specifically as courtney just brought up, the warm water port area of tartus and why russia is so invested with that area of syria. >> absolutely. there's a lot of evidence that putin is propping up assad. the real question is, why is he doing that? and the ...