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It will be a blow to iran and russia. >> reporter: it's a position once shared by the obama administration, which after four years of saying assad must go now agrees with the majority of republicans that he should stay. at least for the time being. >> united states and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change as it is known in syria. >> reporter: after marathon talks in moscow secretary of state john kerry accepted president putin's long-standing demand that the syrian people decide assad's fate. >> translator: we think that syrian people alone should determine who they want to rul...

September when john kerry told cnn assad's ouster was the key to ending the civil war and defeating isis. >> as long as assad is there, you simply can't make peace. period. assad has done so many terrible things to his own citizens that that fighting won't stop, and we can't stop it. >> reporter: tomorrow in new york secretary kerry will hold a fresh round of talks on syria and hopes to get a u.n. security council resolution endorsing this peace process. the obama administration hopes that, if it can get a cease-fire going between regime forces and syrian rebels the u.s. coalition can team up ...