there are reports right now, though, that the u.s. -- this is the motorcade i want to mention here. the motorcade going by, the president is in right now. so the reports of the u.s. and russia are nearing an agreement on how to resolve the syrian civil war now that isis is out of the area. >> melissa, those reports are nice and we've been seeing similar reports for the last six months every couple of weeks we hear how they are making progress. if you look on the ground in syria, the situation fundamentally hasn't changed. isis is much weaker than it used to be. there are many other bad actors operating in syria. and if you look at where the united states and russia are with respect to syria policy, the kremlin backs the assad regime, the united states backs the rebels that are not connected to isis and al qaeda. and those positions haven't fundamentally changed and the war doesn't show signs of stopping any time soon. >> melissa: i was reading an