what the russians are doing. i don t know what we re doing. what is our best case enerio fifth we do everything the way we want to do everything, what do we want to happen? i think what we would like to see is that the state of syria does not completely fracture and that the winner and the post conflict will not be isis. but between those two goals is a pretty huge challenge, which is a chaotic civil war. and there s this the fact that somebody has to lead syria when whatever we do there comes to something like an expend i don t our goal is for the end there, like, if there is no more assad and no more isis, who do we want to run syria? i don t think well know the answer to that question and i don t think the syrian people figured that out. how to the then powering gasoline on the fire. it s going to get worst for the foreseeable future. thank you. i appreciate it. another live look at the white house there. we ll take you there as soon as the president s news conferenc