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From the white house. >> reporter: ask about the failed program to train and equip syrian fighters, president obama told "60 minutes" sunday that he never believed in the plan in the first place, despite its billion and a half price tag. >> this is why i've been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside of syria. >> reporter: but if you're so skeptical of the strategy, which already has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, he certainly didn't show is in 2014. >> tonight i call on congress again to give us additional author...

Syrian opposition. tonight, i call on congress again to give us additional authorities and resources to train and equip these fighters. there is no doubt it didn't work. this is why i have been unsure about the notion we would effectively create this proxy army inside of syria. >> so in the first instance he is asking congress for money to get it done and now he says he never believed in the process. >> he is saying putin is coming from a place of weakness as well which couldn't be further than the truth. i will give the president credit for ending the $500 million program and create a force i...

Opposition. i call on congress to give us additional authority and resources to train and equip these fighters. there is no doubt this did not work. that's why i have been sceptical from the get-go that we were going to create this proxy army in syria. bill: then he says what am i going to do, send in 100,000 troops? i haven't herd anyone call for that. >> he's saying the incompetence of my administration in fumbling this training program for the syrian opposition proifs was right in the first place for not want to go go in. but right now it's obama who is acting out of desperation. it's not p...

Stalemate. but what's going to happen to isis? i mean they have to be -- somebody has to take them on. what's going on right now is not working. they're still occupying big chunks of iraq. they're still occupying a good chunk of syria. >> right. >> who's going to get rid of them in >> over time the community of nations will all get rid of them. >> you have been talking a lot about the moderate opposition in syria. this seems very hard to identify. >> steve, this is why i've been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside of syria....

Stalemate. but what's going to happen to isis? i mean, they have to be -- somebody has to take them on. what's going on right now is not working. they're still occupying big chunks of iraq. they're still occupying a good chunk of syria. >> right. >> who's going to get rid of them in >> over time, the community of nations will all get rid of them. >> you have been talking a lot about the moderate opposition in syria. this seems very hard to identify. >> steve, this is why i've been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside of syri...