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Fight isis in syria, you've had no skin in this game and they want to know at this point with just one targeted u.s. airstrike, where is your bottom line? boris, this meeting is just started. it's just underway. i can see that the reporters in the room are now straining to see some opening comments. right now rex tillerson looking for some wiggle room with russia. not just on whether or not his support, bashar al-assad -- russia's support for bashar al-assad is unconditional, whether or not they might move away from that regime,but also if they are willing to put their own credibility and lev...

Administration, but they violated it. what i did should have been done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. and you would have had a much better -- i think syria would be a lot better off right now than it that's been. >> let's bring in senior international correspondent clarissa ward. in syria this morning. you have to wonder what effect these meetings will have on syria's war. not to mention the relation between u.s. and russia. the contours of discussion here, a no-fly zone, humanitarian corridors, north korea, ukraine, a lot on the table. >> reporter: there is a lot on ...

This is an animal. >> the latest, let's go live to cnn's paula newton in moscow. is secretary tillerson's meeting underway yet? what do we expect to come out of this? >> reporter: not as of yet, but we do expect it to start at any moment, christine. and if we take ourselves away from the punching and the counter punching we've been hearing for days now, rex tillerson at that table with sergey lavrov to understand what russia is up for. at this point in time, tillerson wanting to examine two things, whether or not the russians have the unconditionally support assad, if they will back away even ...

On the ground. listen to what he said. >> we're not going into syria. but when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the obama administration. but they violated it. what i did should have been done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. and you would have had a much better i think syria would be a lot better off right now than it has been. >> let's bring in senior international correspondent clarissa ward. she's live on turkey's border live for us this morning. what impact are you expecting these meetings might have on the ...

That's a very big ask because the relationship between russia and the assad family goes back decades. russia has spent hundreds of millions if not billions propping up the regime, selling them weaponry, helping them financially, not to mention its own military intervention. so, it is going to take a lot of persuasion to tell them that they should suddenly reverse course. it's important to remember that syria is really russia's only major ally or toe hold in the entire middle east. it has given them access to the mediterranean. and beyond all that, forest, it has really become their geopolitica...