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That's defense. defend the ground, you need to win. that's one option. then there's the offense option. don't just go for a win, go for a blowout. hand the republicans their own butts. try to win everywhere. that could be the strategy that we see it work in the clinton campaign's small recent moves in texas and utah and georgia. texas looks kind of close right now. utah, who knows. we've had two polls out of utah. one had trump by one. one had trump by 17. maybe it's close, maybe it's not. it's complicated by a third party candidate who appears to be competitive in skput nowhere else. in georg...

Chomping at the bit to win georgia. option one, defense. go maximum in just the states you know you need to win. option two, offense. go for the read statings. try to win the whole freaking country or option three, split the difference. shore up what you need, but go for states that might be reached, but maybe even if you don't win there, they could give you some down ballot momentum. give your down ballot candidate as boost. states particularly where there might be senators you would like to pick up. indiana, missouri. maybe clinton won't win the states, but maybe spin enough there to move th...

About this and would hand over the chemical weapons supplied to international control, the u.s. would stand down from a strike? >> jake, we just saw the russian proposal and of course, we are going to look at it carefully, and we'll talk to the russians about it. of course, at the end of the day, anything that involves syria giving up in a verifiable manner its chemical weapons and having them destroyed would be a very good thing. that's the purpose of what we're trying to do. we're trying to make sure that syria can't use these weapons again. but just a couple of things. we know that over the...

Weeks to speak out? >> well, today because she was at a public event and it was -- >> she was previously scheduled to be at. >> and she has another one tomorrow or the next day. so it was clear that she was going to have to say something. she can't walk into the white house in the middle of this conversation as former secretary of state and not say anything. it would have been odd. so that's why now. and i think, look, i think she did give credibility to two things. one, she said that, you know, if you can get the syrians to give up their chemical weapons, right, that's a good option. that's t...

Military installations are taken out. what happens next? how do we know the situation in syria doesn't get even more bloody? >> well, it's been a situation, it's been a war situation for two and a half years. the assad lost control of more than 60% of the land. he's fighting the rebel on the suburb of damascus. this is why he used chemical weapons, because he could not defeat them by conventional means. so the country is already in this situation. this strike is going to lead to the end of this war. there will be a transition plan coordinated between friends of syria and the free syrian army a...