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I have rear adderall john kirby with me, cnn military and diplomatic analyst to talk a little bit about this phone call. again, just context for the call, admiral, this is the fact that the same day the cozy looking photos came out with bashar al assad and putin. assad, a man the president has called a butcher and we know putin and russia meddled in the election. so there's a lot of conflict in this call. >> yeah. this looks like this call was probably set up by the russian side. it looked like he called several foreign leaders after his day-long meeting with assad to sort of read them out. i ...

Guy. there's a lot of things coming out. >> should al franken resign now? >> i'm. >> reporter: happy -- >> should al franken resign now because there's pictures of him groping -- >> i don't want to speak to al franken. >> what about john conyers? >> i just heard about john conyers a few minutes ago. as far as franken is concerned, he's going to have to speak. i'd rather have him speak. [ inaudible question ]. >> we had a great call with president putin talking about syria. and of course, north korea. had a conversation that lasted almost an hour and a half. and talking very strongly about brin...

Maybe iran on the future here politically for syria, not necessarily anybody else. he talked about outsiders, meaning the united states and the u.n. so i don't think there is a lot of commonality here. assad wants to stay in power. russia wants to keep their foothold and are willing to accept assad to do that and the united states and the rest of the west ought to be, at least i hope they are, and the president's readout would suggest they are, interested in a real political settlement that gives syrians a voice in their own future. >> i've got less than a minute. we know that north korea was ...

And both putin and assad see the terrorists in the same way. which is anybody who is fighting the regime. and, of course, we know that that's not the case. so i think we need to be very, very cautious before reading too much into the readout of this meeting and what real progress is likely to be made. >> where do these men see eye-to-eye? >> well, who, assad and putin? >> all three of them. >> well, i think -- i think all of them would tell you that they want to see an end to terrorist groups inside syria, even assad would tell you that, but beyond that, honestly, brooke, there isn't a whole l...