>> just by sitting down at a table with assad, with russia, with iran, with the united states, with president macron and saying, look, we have all these people killed, we have so many people displaced, how do we settle this? i'm not sure that that would include -- it could include, it shouldn't include but i try to be realistic about these things about assad continuing. he's not the only leader in syria that could restore syria. in fact, he's probably the least likely to do it, but we need some peace in syria. that doesn't mean peace at any cost, but i'm just not sure that iran wants peace. i think they like the idea of this trying to establish themselves. hezbollah is already there in lebanon. they're controlled by the iranians. the revolutionary guard is now moving into syria. i'd like to hear president