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>> tucker: i don't think anybody doubts that a lot of these are decent people fleeing the worst possible circumstances. i think this is a fair question to ask. i just want to flush out your answer a little bit more. what is in it for american citizens? why should we pay for this? they will also be some risk, why should we assume that risk? he said it's because some other countries like it when we do it? >> let's talk security. i would argue it makes us more secure than less secure.e. what isis and other extremist groups want is what the president gave them today. a war between the west and isl...

To make it so that the syrian refugees who had fled syria to not only the middle east but europe and otherdd parts of the world are able to return home. >> tucker: but what do you say about u.s. policy? is he open to some sort of alliance with the united states, assuming the trump administration is open to that as well? what did assad say to you? >> i think he is looking for what our new president would see as a shared interest with him. with syria. and the shared interest that he has seen is that this commitment to defeating isis. 's commitment to defeating this terrorist threat that not only...

Certainly the obama administration, would put toppling the assad regime at the top of the list? >> beginning with iraq, toppling saddam hussein, with libya, qaddafi, and now in syria. to topple assad. >> tucker: what's the thinking behind this? you thought about this. why n assad? it's not a defense of assad or his mentality -- >> united states should be the world's police, they should say here is a bad guy, we are going to go and topple this bad guy without digging through what the consequences of those decisions are. >> tucker: what would those be? if assad was toppled, sake of that happen. ...

With assad, i am not a defender. i met with the syrian people, to share the care, the love and thn aloha that me and my people have for them. and to see the situation on the ground for myself. when the opportunity presented itself to meet with president assad, i took it simply because i believe that if we profess to care for the syrian people, we want to end you suffering for them.em we have to be willing to meet with whoever we need to in order to accomplish that. that was much of what ide discussed with him in that meeting. how do we get to a place where we can end this war, where the terror...

Have an expert to vouch that for us. now you are saying isis is really going to hate us, if wech don't let syrians and they're going to hate us more? don't they already hate us? >> it's about all the muslim countries that the president -- it's an attack on islam, not just syrians. >> tucker: isis has been making that case since its origination. al-qaeda before them.ca various radical muslim groups before them. they have always said this is aw religious war and we hate islam and so it sounds to me like you are blaming the united states and our policy for their distorted view of the united state...