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Fight against isis. is there anything you heard today or anything that you have seen that could make a somewhat immediate and significant difference in this fight? >> you mean, in relations to the russians or general? >> in general. >> in general. well, i think they are starting to act faster, because before it was very long space between implementing a certain policy, for example, training rebels against jihadis, which actually didn't work out. but it took a long time for it to not work out and for that administration to admit it. i actually think that russian involvement in syria as of late ...

And president obama in roseburg, oregon today meeting with families of those killed in last week's deadly shooting on a college campus there. some people not happy that the president made the visit. the pentagon announcing it will stop training rebels to fight isis. was the $500 million program a complete failure? what will it change about the future fight against isis? >> we have devised a number of different approaches to that going forward and taking under president obama y. thipg you will be hearing shortly from him. to a child in need in a developing country. thanks to customers like yo...

Rebels fighting the assad regime and the much larger one is the pentagon one that was aimed at training rebels only to fight isis. that was the one trying to get to reach between 5,000 to 15,000 over the course of 3 years and cost $500 million and literally produced 4 or 5 fighters. as a result, that program now is being scrapped. it is scrapped because they don't have the fighters, the money is wasted. the guns ending up in the hands of al qaeda-affiliated groups and not making progress on the ground partly because the u.s. want this is group of fighters to focus their fight on isis. these fi...

Factions, even the more moderate rebel factions, are sitting back and asking themselves, what kind of an ally do we have in the united states? especially when it seems at this stage that the syrian regime has a much more powerful and decisive ally in russia, which is a very precarious situation in terms of how these broader dynamics do play out both in the syrian and iraqi battleground. >> arwa, stand by. i want to bring in my panel on set. we've been watching this together. major general james spider marks and elise labott. i see you nodding when you hear failed policy when it comes to traini...

Trying to take in more people ourselves that the money we're spending to try to support the refugee proz process would be well spent? should we be spending more of it? >> well, i think we should be spending more money on bringing refugees here. i propose today that we should be taking all of this money we're throwing down the drain and training rebels who are refusing to fight once they go into syria and use that money on bringing more refugees. but we also have a world food program that has run out of money inside places like jordan. we aren't feeding millions of refugees. millions of refugee...