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A showdown or a mexican standoff with the russians. >> you bring up the russians, with us not being all in, it seems as though we have left this big vacuum in syria that the russians are now coming in, at least in some ways, filling. >> they are. remember, putin, the russians have a 40, 50 year relationship with the assad family. they have 30,000 russian nationals, most of whom married syrian men, women on the ground, russians have allies, they have time, and they have a policy that frankly is much more consistent than ours. they want to hammer isis to be sure, but above all support assad. we'...
Focus now on a former iraqi lawmaker and her husband. they're on a mission to rescue yazidi women and children. >> the desperate phone calls from some of the enslaved women kept coming in. atika shubert tells us more. >> reporter: the sound is muffled. crackly, barely audible over the sound of children, but this is a lifeline, a way to plot an escape from slavery under isis. every day this woman takes calls like this, pleas for help to escape. a former air strike iraq ri mai remembers when isis first captured mosul. >> we said why are they coming,
The areas they struck, there's very few isis targets in that area, and all the videos we've seen coming out after the strikes don't show any isis involvement. >> so it begs the question, what is russia's intent here? syria, do you think? and wouldn't it have been a wiser move for russia to go after isis targets first no matter their intentions? >> i thought they would go after isis first, and kind of establish that as their baseline. much as the turks did. they went after isis first and then they devoted their attention to the pkk targets. i thought the russians might do the same. they want to...
But the effort of the obama administration to train those people and find those people and vet those people who might do the job has been a complete failure as e we reported several times in the last week. we have to turn somewhere if you want to get rid of isis first. where we're turning is toward russia, which now has many more planes operating out of syria and syria air space than we do. >> chris, thank you very much. i appreciate it. coming up next, donald trump gets specific. the billionaire releasing his highly anticipated tax plan today. he says it's going to make the wealthy very ang...