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There. it's a proxy fight. by the way, the russians have been here the whole time and complicit in allowing chemical weapons to be used. they got exactly what they wanted. they want add sad here for a year, at least extended for a year. they got that. and there's not one ounce of chemical weapons in this -- remember, it's a framework. there are a lot of shoulds, not a lot of hard dates. all this has to go to the u.n. not one ounce of chemical weapons came off the battlefield but we gave up every ounce of our leverage because we've taken away a credible military threat. the russians say we main...

Back home is i'm interested in the outcome that makes us safer. the worst thing is to hit him once and let that be it. we don't need boots on the ground, but we need a strategy that will make sure that assad loses. we're in a war with iran in syria. this is a proxy fight between the iranians and the united states. and we can't afford to lose. if a year from now assad is still in power after all the things we said, what kind of signal does that send to iran? so to the average american, i know you're war weary, god knows i am too. but i'm never too tired to do what's necessary to defend this nat...

World. >> russians are all in. hezbollah with 4,000 or 5,000 troops. iranian revolutionary guard. it is now erupting into a regional conflict. it was not that at the beginning. in 1930s we had a thing called the spanish civil war that, when it came to become a proxy fight. this is now becoming a proxy fight between different interests in the middle east and outside the middle east, including significant involvement by the russians, while we sit by and watch these people being massacred. i year and a half ago, i asked when we were going to intervene when 7,000 had died. a year from now there wi...

Described her as brilliant, top diplomat. someone who he pointed out, quick to point out, worked for him and supported him in his 204 presidential race. he a applauding these new colleagues. >> in terms of the samantha power nomination, u.n. ambassador a high-profile job. not as high profile as something like secretary of state but she'll have to be senate confirmed. she has been a blistering critic of previous united states decisions to intervene or not intervene on the basis of humanitarian concerns in other conflicts abroad. that's really sort of where she made her bones, where she won a pu...

The thing -- and, yes, this is a proxy fight with president obama. it's not that they're just close personal friends of the president and the first lady's. it's that they were big fundraisers for president obama. and, you know, republicans and the right wing and senator marco rubio and the two members from congress, congresswoman ross lateman and diaz ballard, they're trying to make it seem like because they are big bund lers, money people for president obama, they then got special treatment to go over to cuba. you know, beyond what the travel restrictions are. and, you know, a source says tha...