progressive candidates already on the ground has some questioning just how far left democratic voters may be willing to go to beat president trump. joining me now onset, dean abdela, column inconsistent for the daily beast and host of the dean abdela show. and in milwaukee, charles sykes, editor-in-chief of the bull walk and msnbc contributor. dean, you do a progressive radio show. and there are those that are considered far left and left and liberal. how far left is the democratic party willing to go, and how far left, if you feel at all, is too far to win a general election, but you can win primaries? i mean, this is a question being debated. sure.
cities but not the focus. they are focused on fighting rebels who seek to take them out of government in damascus. some say the syrian regime is happy to let isis thrive because it s that terrifying radical extremism that is effectively the face of the part of the population or country that you don t control and that works in your favor. you become the bull walk against global terrorism. at this point we haven t really seen much in terms of isis leaping forward and publicly declaring their aggression toward the strikes or the desire to make capital upon it but it does feed into the dynamic that confuses matters and makes the possibility of washington and syrian regime in damascus getting on the same page. they are exchanging missiles deciding to get together and focus on a common enemy but isis is sitting back trying to see whether this leads their
agenda. earlier president obama took to the u.n. stage to make an impassioned defense of diplomacy hailing progress with iran and cuba. we, the nations of the world, cannot return to the old ways of conflict and coercion. reporter: and making clear he is now open to negotiations to end the relentless war in syria. the united states is prepared to work with any nation, including russia and iran, to resolve the conflict. reporter: still, presidents obama and putin sharing a toast at a u.n. luncheon sounding unlikely partner in peace. obama calling bashar al-assad a tyrant. when a dictator slaughters tens of thousands of his own people, that is not just a matter of one nation s internal affairs. reporter: president putin, a bull walk against terrorism. translator: we think it is an enormous mistake to refuse to cooperate with the syrian governmentnd its armed forces
leaders are well-known. all this buildup to a face-to-face meeting they had this afternoon. their first official sit down in more than two years. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins us with the latest and this was a rare meeting for these two gentlemen. what came from it? first formal meeting in two years. it was 90 minutes long and spent the first half talking about ukraine and the second half syria. on ukraine, the president and white house and pressing some possible progress there on instituting the so-called peace accords and fighting there but on syria, the white house saying that putin and obama have a fundamental disagreement. you heard that in the speeches with president obama describing him as a tyrant who killed tens of thousands of his own people and putin calling him a bull walk against terrorism where they did have some agreement is they both believe there is the possibility of a political solution there.
leaders are well-known. all this buildup to a face-to-face meeting they had this afternoon. their first official sit down in more than two years. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins us with the latest and this was a rare meeting for these two gentlemen. what came from it? first formal meeting in two years. it was 90 minutes long and spent the first half talking about ukraine and the second half syria. on ukraine, the president and white house and pressing some possible progress there on instituting the so-called peace accords and fighting there but on syria, the white house saying that putin and obama have pua d fundamental disagreement. you heard that in the speeches with president obama describing him as a tyrant who killed tens of thousands of his own people and putin calling him a bull walk against terrorism where