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Russia isn't exactly -- and putin, they both aren't exactly the united states' best friend. >> where did that love come from? >> i know. and in most cases, they don't rise to the level of frenemy. so here you have poor -- poor. you have edward snowden who is there, leaving china basically from hong kong, which is china, going to moscow, which was supposed to be a transit point before heading off to venezuela, and, i'm sorry, to havana and then possible venezuela, there he is, stuck in this weird kind of limbo, as you said, for the last nine days. and he is apparently carrying these four lap to...

No more leaks from the soil of russia. he has to neuterize himself to agree to stay there. so he has it turn out the lights it survive personally. >> right. when vladimir putin, when russian president putin said said that, you know, in order to stay, snowden would have to do this, it was rather surprising. russia isn't exactly -- and putin, they both aren't exactly the united states' best friend. >> where did that love come from? >> i know. and in most cases, they don't rise to the level of frenemy. so here you have poor -- poor. you have edward snowden who is there, leaving china basically fr...

House's conversations as they watch israel undertake these two strikes this weekend, which there had been one previously in january, so this is not exactly completely new, but it does look like an escalation and the syrian response has been escalated. what are those conversations in the white house like? >> well, just the israeli strikes, in a way they're not about syria as much as they are about lebanon, about hezbollah, the big arm group which sits on the israeli border. syria is the transit point for all the weapons that hezbollah gets from iran. so israel is rightly concerned and they have...

Predictably, none of this is war. reporter: as if bashar al-assad is any closer to hang onto power, the ambassador said he is not a psychiatrist, but the receivers military situation is worsening. jon: the longer this goes on from the more damage goes on. >> they are seeing hezbollah soldiers and weapons systems coming from iran and using iraq as a transit point. the secretary of state was recently in saudi arabia by providing arms to the rebels directly while the u.s. has non-lethal it. ambassador defended the administration's approach. >> is secretary.

To do a better job of addressing than we have in the obama administration. >> greta: is it right now -- because of what is going on in syria and because iran gets its weapons to hezbollah through the transit point of syria and they are up to their eyeballs with syria? is the area more of a powder keg than, let's say, a year ago? >> absolutely. a year ago, iran was a year further away from nuclear weapons capability. and obviously, the situation in syria had not deteriorated to the point that it is now. this question of gas masks and concern in israel for syria's chemical and biological weapons...