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Battlefield. >> yeah, exactly. and again, i would have been right where senator mccain was earlier in your show, three years ago, four years ago where everything was more malleable. and look, anderson, forget about the russians being there to fight isis as candidate trump said. they're there to buck up their client's state. and now we need them to keep their client on-side while we go do some other stuff. and that's probably the topic for secretary tillerson in moskow. >> do you think there's also an advantage in what the trump administration did last night in terms of, you know, other bad act...

>> well, it's clear to me with what we've been saying for the last 24 hours after the attack it's going to take a serious provocation for us to repeat what we did last night. look, as sad as this is, anderson, we want to park the assad problem over here, just let it sit, while we solve what we think is the more high priority problem, which is isis. so the strike yesterday is in essence our telling assad, settle down. we're not going anywhere, and we're going to turn our attention back to problem number one, which is the assad estate. >> republicans who want to see regime change and want much m...

And i do think that for better or for worse or whatever inintention behind it, these u.s. strikes have certainly forced everyone at the negotiating table, whether it's the russians, whether it's those at hezbollah, whether it's those supporting the opposition to take stock for a moment, that the u.s. does have some leverage and is potentially going to involve itself, maybe having more of an impact, more of a voice, and more of a say. >> general hayden was on in the last hour and saying essentially you can't go against assad and syria at the same time -- excuse me, isis and assad at the same ti...

Grufitty. and from the ginning he's been cracking down on his own people and labeling them terrorists. and ultimately isis grew and released extremists from syrian prisons and kind of created the enemy he was originally calling the peaceful protester. >> president assad best understands the language of force. i don't think he's worried about his credible when he tells falsehoods, tells lies. to him it's all about the balance of power. that's how he operates, how the syrian government operates. >> is it clear right now what the trump administration policy is to syria, what it continues to be in...

>> the problem is this, consider the situation here, which is if we were to achieve the objective we seek on the assad front, if we were able to oust the regime of assad tomorrow, what would happen? there's a large part of syria that is ruled by the assad regime, that is ruled by a lut of the minorities, the christians. they would all be in threat. it would be chaos. most likely those areas would be penetrated by jihadies at that point. it certainly would strengthen the forces of isis and al qaeda. we don't want assad in power, but we don't want a power vacuum either. and the idea we could car...