si syria has not been a win across the board obviously but, you know, we've seen this morning the trump administration really struggling to figure out where they want to go with syria because, as you saw, the second of state said one thing, ambassador hailey said something quite different, and now they're heading straight into talks with the russians and we're going to see where the rubber meets the road in that regard. >> now, if you were advising president trump on what to do next in syria, what would you tell him? >> reporter: well, i think certainly getting the russians to a better place would help a lot. i'm not sure that they've got a way to do that. they certainly have more leverage than they had at the beginning of last week, but the russians are ready to play chess with them, and that's where they have to really step up with a plan. we haven't seen that. we saw this morning that there was at least some policy