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Ambassador, why? >> well, what is the cause of these refugee flows? it began with the civil war in syria, which we have not addressed adequately these last five years. and now exacerbated by isis setting up a caliphate and committing arguably religious genocide against christians, other muslim sects. the question is if you want to stop refugee flows, you have to address the cause. the cause is isis and for the last year and a half although our declared objective is to degrade and ultimately destroy isis, we have done next to nothing to accomplish that. >> where does iran and president assad of...

First is the response to america's failure to deal with isis, second is turkey and europe's failure to do what they should do to handle refugees. martha: no choice but to deal with refugee flows, people are streaming across all of these borders but to not recognize how we got here, we look back to the red line moment in syria, play that sound from president obama when he stated there could be no red line crossed in syria. >> very clear to the side regime and other players on the ground at a red line for us, we start seeing a bunch of chemical weapons moving around. that would change my calculu...

Sergei lavrov to express concern about the statement. he issued a strong statement saying it could lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows, risk confrontation with anti-isis coalition operating in syria. barbara starr joins us with more. barbara, as you know, this phone conversation between lavrov and the secretary of state, significant development. what exactly are you hearing? what are the russians suspected of specifically doing in syria? >> well, what we know, wolf, is that the obama administration through the state department expressing that concern and specifically ...

Complications including escalating the conflict, increase loss of life, increased refugee flows. and also a concern expressed by john kerry if the russians are there and they do bolster the syrian army that could lead to an unwanted confrontation between the anti-isis coalition that is there led by the united states and turkey carrying out air strikes on the i.s. positions. that is a concern that that would not be able to continue or complicate that process. if it's true and we don't have confirmation that it is, it could be an important development in the syrian civil war. it would be somethi...

>> the french prime minister said the terrorist threat faced was the greatest in its history. there's real concern for european counter terrorism officials. there could be more terrorist attacks in europe. they believe that isis is pivoting towards launching attacks in the european union. that was an isis directed plot to launch a major attack. real concern. more than 3,000 europeans have traveled to fight in syria and iraq. more than 750 have come back. there's also concern of refugee flows. more than 100,000 came from libya just last year. >> it's easy to disguise yourself as one of them and...