CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin September 8, 2014
I would say a couple things about that. The first is the United States has been engaged in an effort to support them and we have been for some time. For more than a year at least. Separately, the concern that was expressed by the administration at the time and has been its been repeated. Its a concern that we didnt want to provide assistance to every individual who said that they were fighting bashar al assad. Had we done that without thoroughly vetting them and building a relationship to understand who were providing weapons to, we would have provided weapons to the very people were now fight...