obama's statement. he bit his lip and stared down at the floor. it's our understanding they never caught each other's eyes. still the leaders claim to be on the same page on some things. >> we agree we need to see a cessation of the violence. that a political process has to be created. to prevent civil war and the kind of horrific depths that we have seen over the last several weeks. >> shepard: of course, the evidence shows a civil war is already well underway. syria's leader bashar assad has been coordinating a vicious crackdown on its own people for more than a year now. witnesses say its forces have killed thousands upon thousands of civilians. and russia has indeed been supporting the syrian regime. in fact last week the secretary of state hillary clinton said moscow had dramatically escalated the crisis by shipping russian attack helicopters to the syrians. it was later learned that those attack helicopters were