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Are actually going after e terrorists. i think that is a -- i think that is disconcerting that the president-elect would be making these kind of arguments that are pro-russian and frankly in the interest of iran in syria as well. >> speaking of the interest of iran, michael, how much do you think the president's policy or nonpolicy in syria was driven by his desire to do nothing to p interfere with making a nuclear deal with iran? >> a ton. and we see the evidence of it. the "wall street journal" has an article out that talked about the fact that when the president was thinking about whether o...

Residual force in iraq which could have kept isis from moving into iraq and destabilizing a bigger door for the region and making the situation in syria ct more complications. but 400,500 and 600 million -- >> not million, hundred thousand. >> a million or two million refugees destabilizing europe and foreign policy, these are the -- these are the credits on president obama's report card when it comes to syria. >> we ask you for questions for the panel and on this issue of whether or not president obama could have done more and his contention that he couldn't, we got this from christopher hess...

Done more to defend or to help the moderate -- >> back in 2011 in fact was urging that they put more p support for the syrian rebels. >> yes. and the question always has been that once you start down that road, it does become one in which what happens when they arc slaughtered do we defend them and do you put troops on the ground. he is concerned about this slippery slope and we've seen that we have taken other actions, obviously our engagement in iraq, which is a contributing factors to the destabilization of the entire middle east and in fact a factor in what has happened in syria has been p...