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Known to the world that he doesn't have to be part of the long term future, he'll help manage syria out of this mess and then go off in the sunset as most people do after a period of public life. if he were to do that, then you could stop the violence and quickly move to a management. this really all hinges on one person's choice and on supporters of that person who insists that he's the essential ingredient to the future. he's not. and you cannot bring peace in syria as long as assad is in fact there. >> given what you know about president assad and the way he's behaved even over the last thr...

Said as richard pointed out u.n. speak assad must go. the question is now what's the plan to get assad to go? >> the truth is the americans don't have a plan and what i think the russian moves over the last couple of weeks have shown is the extent to which the u.s. policy in syria is in tatters and has been for now for several years. there's been moments where the u.s. could have effectively intervened or imposed no-fly zones or imposed buffer zones or used coercion and force to stop president assad barrel bombing his own people. it didn't do any of those things and now the russians are taking...

Ability to get beyond. russia is punches over its weight. >> putin is a person who sees that opening. he sees these openings in places like syria and where he can come in and essentially cause trouble and have influence. this is all about influence. this is all about him gaining respect. and, you know, i think in the end the president comes to the u.n. and the administration thinks that they've had some successes from last year to this year. they wanted an iran jan nuclear agreement. they wanted this opening with cuba. even if you want to talk on a different sort of framework they came and the...

Strike publicly. and the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of syria. that's the purpose. well while we were in the process post-announcement -- >> when we speak we mean what we say. >> yes, except congress started to weigh in and i was on a conference call with over 100 congressmen. >> democrats and republicans? >> democrats and republicans pup got to come to us. you got to ask permission. lo and behold unbeknownst to everybody on the thursday before the weekend we were going to strike, david cameron went to the parliament and lost the vote. how in the wake of britain's...

But you heard an anonymous staffer say knock yourself out. we'll let the russians and irans buttress assad. he'll be in charge of a little chunk of syria but he can't establish control. this is one of four failed states in the middle east along with libya, iraq, yemen. this part of the world is fast unraveling and to thing happened yesterday that will change that trajectory. >> isn't the u.s. in effect saying we can't solve syria, you solve it. that's what knock yourself out means to me. making the best of what's a bad situation. >> we're saying we can't solve syria, you can't solve syria, go ...