and fred is live from moscow with the latest. good morning. >> good morning, dave. we managed to get in touch with the kremlin, and the spokesperson for vladimir putin, he said he believes the u.s. is not in syria legitimately under international law but russia is. that goes into a chorus of russian statements over the past couple of days and weeks where they have been saying they think it's time for the u.s. to leave syria, and america has a lot of troops on the ground there after defeating isis in places like raqqa but also is flying in the skies. i want to read a russian statement where they said, and i quote, the task of defeating the terrorists group in syria by the americans has actually been fulfilled and therefore there are no compelling reasons for the units to be located in syria, and the reasons they give, the americans, are groundless. there's a source of conflict,