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The women in the world conference, that it's not done. she's in the papers today, on television over the weekend saying she sees the mission as accomplished when the leadership of syria is changed, and she seems to be taking a hard line on russia where secretary of state is taking a very different line. these just don't be the parts of the world that we want to lack clari clarity. >> i agree ambassador haley seems more clear that the eventual goal should be to get rid of this dictator, assad, in syria. >> so why don't mcmaster and tillerson know that? >> i worked for president george w. bush, ...

Syria with assad in power. assad is the one reason why we have a refugee problem. assad is the reason that a civil war started, which created a vacuum allowing isis to come in. i think isis is an immediate threat to the united states, but in order to demolish him, you have to have assad go as well, so i do believe there needs to be more conversations about what disease syria look like post-assad. what does syria look like once the rebels take back raqqah? these are conversations that the executive branch and congress should be having conversations on. i also believe that the strikes of last we...

About the future of dictator, tillerson emphasizing america's first priority is a fight against isis, not toppling assad. >> it's through that political process, the syria people can ultimately decide the fate of assad. >> reporter: as haley insists regime change is a primary concern. >> there's not any sort of option where political solution's going to happen with assad at the head of regime. >> reporter: reversals from last week and discrepancy that's not gone unnoticed by tillerson's critics. >> the strategy he's outlining is based on assumptions that are not going to work. there's no such ...

That, baa i think that's, obviously, you know, a terribly frightening decision right now, what you're saying, going to war with syria. not advocating that. clear at all. but what i'm thinking is just unacceptable is to have the u.n. ambassador and the secretary of state saying things that are not in lock step, and you know what? i'm not going to cut in president or any president slack when they are talking about brutal horrible dictators like assad and vladimir putin and one day here, another official there. >> aren't president trump's words the ones we should be listening to? >> well, that's ...

Republican of florida and member of the foreign affairs committee. congressman, welcome to you, sir. how do you respond to your colleague, senator marco rubio there? do you think the president needs to make a more aggressive effort to get assad out of power? >> well, i don't think anybody's saying that assad shouldn't go, that assad's not a heinous authoritarian ruler. in fact, i think finally we have a president willing to take some tangible actions, measured actions, but tangible actions, to show that we are going to protect american interests in the middle east. so we have this isis problem...