Rebels and government. And assad will control the four major cities. Alep aleppo and others. But he doesnt control the whole country. He says he wants it back. Certainly in the days ahead, we can expect many more. Hours of fighting. And an increasing death toll, sadly. Im joined now by bob corker of tennessee. Senator corker, if you had to give advice on an intimate basis with the colonel president , or the incoming president , what would you tell him to do to try to stop this horror . Well, look. Weve been giving advice for four or five years, chris. This was said to be on the front end of the conflict. It is a blight on human kind. At this point, the story as it relates to Western Syria is mostly written. And what will happen will be determined by russia who stepped in, and iran. And certainly assad. So this is a disaster weve known he is torturing his own people. Youve seen the Holocaust Museum of caesar who was documenting this. Cutting peoples genitals off. It has been going on fo
to his close links to russia as the ceo of exxon. and marco rubio shares those concerns. he s on the foreign relations committee. tillerson needs his vote. their exchanges today were very contentious. i want to play one of them for you. is vladimir putin a war criminal? i would not use that term. based on all this information, what s publicly in the record about what s happened in aleppo and the russian military, you are still not prepared to say that vladimir putin and his military have violated the rules of war and have conducted war crimes in alep aleppo? those are very, very serious charges to make and i would want to have much more information before reaching a conclusion. i understand there is a body of record in the public domain. i m sure there s a body of record in the classified domain. and i think in order to deal with a serious question like this mr. tillerson, the town of aleppo is in the public domain and i would want to be fully informed before advising t
accomplishments that i just can t wash away based on a tweet. and the other thing i just want to say you like run down somebody in a crosswalk. there s no defense to that to say look at all the other days i had a great driving record. that s not a perfect analogy. but comment on the judgment that it takes to have said something like that and never apologize for it? if i may i would like to comment on the judgment of what we currently have, my heart breaks every single day when i look at aleppo. why? because i m a compassionate human being. i can t stand the fact that women are choosing suicide over rape. i can t stand the fact that you ve got basically plurality is not a majority of children under the age of 14 or so gone now either displaced or dead and killed. and i look at that as a humanitarian crisis. we ve done next to nothing of value for 5 1/2 years. where is the judgment of our secretary of state? where is the judgment of the administration? we can t just look the
that is not me changing the subject. that s me saying look at what a lack of judgment has wrought in hot spots around ta world like alep aleppo. a complicated and dangerous world i think it s almost inarguable that there s at least question if not concern that we ve got a president who has no governing experience, no foreign policy experience, no public service experience, that s an unprecedented thing, but obviously he put that case to the american people and the american people elected him. that s a big asset to them. president obama had he had been in the united states senate for practically a hot minute before he announced he would run for president. he d been a state senator but people liked that, too. they liked the fact that they had somebody in 2008 and again in 2016 can arguably look them in the eye especially given who their opponents were and say, i will go to washington as your president owing nobody anything. and i will work for you. it was a compelling argument for
and and the same goes for mosul. whoever this guy was, the policeman who shot the russian ambassador, the sympathies among turkish citizens really matters. and he said don t forget about aleppo. would you see increased syrian operations in aleppo as russian retaliation? i think the russians will retalia retaliate, i don t think putin can let this go. erdogan and putin are getting along these days, the best they can. i think the russians, getting involved in syria to this