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Fighters from airstrikes? >> your question points up the whole contradiction here in the russian position, which is that by taking on, by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, you are taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> that is not our position. we believe that at least some parts of the anti-assad opposition long as part of the political transition going forward. so that's one of the reasons, in fact, it is the central reason why the russian approach here is doomed to fail and i hope that they come over to a point of view where they...

Doing is using that as an excuse to attack america's allie the moderate syrian rebels, assad's opponents. he's not attacking isis. he's really going after assad, then he has lied to us. >> what is happening today is one of the leading activisactivs saying one of their lydeie leade killed by a russian airstrike. >> ash carter was -- saying get out of our way is like a slap in our face. number two, if russia uses this as an excuse, we're going after isis, they were propping up assad, the third thing, i was interested to watch secretary carter, in effect, we are flying in the same airspace. the r...

Problem for the united states because he in the u.s. view is the big problem here. he is the one that is killing his own people with his barrel bomb attacks. isis, the additional problem. here's the interesting wrinkle. the u.s. is letting it be. known they would be fine if russia comes in and wants to join the fight against isis. but if all of this is aimed at propping up assad, the u.s. has a big problem. assad has to go, propping him up onk only prolongs the war and the terrible misery that so many syrians are suffering right now. wolf? >> given the russian military buildup around krooi mer...

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Assad falls with this pll political transition being worked out with international leaders, if he continues to help iran prop up assad. >> there are reports also that the head of the syrian opposition coalition reports that he resigned this post at some point today. what do we know about that, and what kind of complications could that present for the united states and its allies? >> reporter: it is a complication, because he quit today. it was not unexpected, said kerry. not surprising, but he said he felt sad about it, because he felt personally connected to him. he liked him a lot. this is t...