CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin December 18, 2015 19:25:00
This point, is it your expectation that bashar al assad's presidency will outlast yours? >> you know, there's been a lot of revisionist history sometimes by the same people making different arguments. maybe it's use fful to go over some of these issues. we did not depose mubarak. millions of egyptians did because of their dissatisfaction with the corruption of the regime. we had a work relationship with mubarak. we didn't trigger the arab spring. . the notion that somehow the u.s. was in a position to pull the strings on a country that is the largest in the arab world i think is mistaken. what...