now to me the only way any hope assuming russia is honest and assad is being honest, the only way to find these weapons and secure the weapons, so get them out of the country would be if there is no war going on. that would require a cease-fire on both sides, and in effect that would give assad a victory over the rebels and certainly weaken the rebels and give him a secure him in power for as long as assad is. i would like you to be precise. you don t think the president should have sent the secretary of state john kerry to geneva for tomorrow s meetings to meet with sergei lavarov, the russian foreign minister, you think that is a blunder. i am saying once to me the mistake was made of putting the offer out there and unintentionally and the russians accepted, we really have no choice. at that stage we had to do it. i am saying now that we are locked into doing it, we should be extremely skeptical and weary and not making more concessions. again, even if this works
relationship. bill: right, right. and we heard from the white house yesterday it was a unanimous vote, you cannot meet with him. right. bill: however, the president talks about the cold war mentality that he believes putin falls back into. this from 2009, hillary clinton and sergei lavarov. we want to reset our relationship [inaudible] we worked hard to get the right russian word. do you think we got it? you get it wrong. i got it wrong. [laughter] it should be [speaking in native tongue] and this says [inaudible] which means [inaudible] [laughter] well, we won t let you do that to us, i promise. bill: embarrassing. and i think that s what the laughter was from the secretary of state at that point. how d that work out? well, it d be funny if it weren t so serious. can we finally say that the obama administration s russia policy has gone from reset to regret? i mean, it s been a mess. we did so many things, the obama administration did so many things to try to