syria, that we ll be able to make progress on that front. well this comes shortly after that. the russian prime minister demetri medvedev. said the u.s. a has achieved nothing in the fight against isis in syria. only russia s involvement has changed that situation. steve? again, i think this is the president engaged in wishful thinking. we heard it from the president with respect to ukraine. he used to say russia, vladimir putin will learn that this is not in his interests to do this. he is saying the same thing here. we ve seen that vladimir putin has a very strong sense of his interests and president obama just doesn t understand it. i also thought it was interesting that the president had said after ukraine. after the cry crimean peninsula.
this began with a rumor and a blood libel ved led by hamas ane palestinian leadership and changing the al aqsa mosque, which the israelis are not and it s being repeated by abbas and others and that s why people are attacking the jews and the desecrators of islam. the president ought to say that and the fact that he doesn t is a betrayal of israel. next on russia, we ve heard the president before on russia s activities inside syria. he was asked about that again today. there s no meeting of the minds in terms of strategy but my hope is that as we continue to have these conversations and as we suspect russia starts realizing that they re not going to be able to bomb their way to a peaceful situation inside of
the air. and as a result, isis has expanded into the suburbs of aleppo, taken them over, this is territory they had lost before, as a direct result of the russian attacks on the nonjihadist talibans. they re working hand in glove. they want to divide syria between assad and isis and say to the world, you got no choice and that s what s happening. obama has washed his hands, if you pronounce an area a quagmire, that means you re out and that s what obama has done. he talked about iran saying the iran nuclear deal is different than the u.n. sanctions that iran is violating with testing a ballistic missile. next up, friday lightning round. stick with us.
every day there are 28,500 american servicemen and women in south korea to defend that country this is the least south korea can do to defend the united states. chang says in addition to beijing and pyongyang seoul faces increasing pressure from moscow to keep american missiles off the korean peninsula. today the president repeated his criticism of russia. which is involved in a proxy war to prop up the faltering assad regime. mr. obama left open the door for future dialogue. my hope is that as we continue to have these conversations, and as i suspect russia starts realizing that they re not going to be able to bomb their way to a peaceful situation inside the syria. that we ll be able to make progress on that front. that drew a stinging rebuke from russia s prime minister who tweeted of u.s. efforts quote, the u.s. has achieved nothing in
schools and hospitals. i mean of course these are all for a very heavily refined and eye dialized lens. what they re trying to sell is the utopia. the brutal videos do still exist, but in fewer numbers and isis still seeks to attack the u.s. but this shift has been seen by some as a sign of growing confidence in light of the ineffective bombing campaign against them. isis is not able to deliver on their promises of statehood yet. recently discovered documents show the majority of their money, estimated up to $300 million a year, is still spent on battle. they do have plans to change the financial system and introduce their own currency. within the province of dar ezor in syria the finances break down as 2.8% spent on media. 10.4 on the islamic police, 63.4 on military and 23.4 on governance. the fact remains that for a group which is being attacked by so many countries, including russia and the u.s., to even