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As a result of the annexation of crimea, will there be more sanctions? >> there should be. when you say what we could do, we do increase sanctions on russia. >> more activity this turkey? >> shore up the nato allies in the northern part of nato, shore up turkey. go to the allies in the region. jordan, israel, saudi arabia. for example, last week the egyptian prime minister spoke at the united nations and guess what, the american delegation was not there. they boycotted our israeli allies speech to the united nations general assembly. that sends all the wrong messages. ultimately putin will ris...

Said everything is great, assad has to stay. has on go. vladimir putin said no, assad will stay. next day putin announced a coalition of russia iraq, syria. the next day, get out of sear gentleman because the bombers are going to start in an hour. by the end the week, united states is no longer a player in the middle east. >> so what happens now sha? because russia is looking at what critics say is a vacuum that we created. they're looking at egypt and obviously libya and saying look at these weaknesses. and now it's in real life we're watching the weakness come to fruition where we're seeing ...

Those. >> also hit some isis targets after they got pushback for hitting the sir yayriansyri. >> after being shown to do what they were meaning to do, which was prop up assad. >> i would rather prop up assad than prop up iran. >> then you're propping up iran. >> i would rather prop up iran, assad. >> i would prop them all up and let them all fall. now to the deadly strikes, talking about air strikes. afghanistan over the weekend, terrible, terrible, killed 22 patients and medical staff at a clinic operated by a wonderful charity called doctors without borde borders. i've seen them in operati...

This is about russia getting involved with an opposite goal of the u.s. one, propping up assad, but two, going against forces. that's a real problem going forward. >> you say let russia meddle in sooe ya. why? >> i don't think this is going to turn out well for them. the irony is they are saying they are doing this in order to fight islamic terrorism. they have a real problem. one of the things to watch is a lot of people have gone to syria and one of the reasons the russians are targeting this area is that's where they are. but i think what's likely to happen is there's going to be blowback a...

One in which we can share to some extent and, therefore work in a common way. we're not at that point yet. i think it's worth trying to get to that point. >> we have a responsibility for that, to protecting them as we heard in the past. we heard in the past i believe you testified on the hill, the coalition has the responsibility to protect the opposition forces, specifically the ones trained by the u.s. the larger forces, what is the coalition responsibility if they're coming under airstrikes by the russians? the strikes by the assad regime? >> we have conducted air operations against isil, a...