you have a lebanon situation where you have different ethnic and religious groups that are constantly fighting with each other for power and any kind of political solution is an unstable one. this needn t have come to this place. i will say two years ago there were lots of groups in the fight that were secular is not the right word, but that were liberal, should we say, and that were not linked to al qaeda. but those groups were essentially pushed out of the night. al qaeda-connected groups were the only ones getting active outside help at the time and they took to they also, of course, many of them are experienced fighters from other conflicts so they were taking the sort of forward position. they led the fight. i understand. and eventually they came to dominate it. right now there are relatively few groups available there for whom we can say these guys are reliable and we can own them.
this needn t have come to this place. i will say two years ago there were lots of groups in the fight that were secular is not the right word, but that were liberal, should we say, and that were not linked to al qaeda. but those groups were essentially pushed out of the night. al qaeda-connected groups were the only ones getting active outside help at the time and they took to they also, of course, many of them are experienced fighters from other conflicts so they were taking the sort of forward position. they led the fight. i understand. and eventually they came to dominate it. right now there are relatively few groups available there for whom we can say these guys are reliable and we can own them. let me ask you about this problem we have. military logistics and military strategy. if we start flying over the country, they apparently have a tremendously state of the art soviet system, russian-backed more recently, of any aircraft capability. missiles. they can shoot anything t
other issues in my life, but on this one, i had not contemplated changing my position. senator portman says it is in line with his beliefs, with his catholic beliefs. he obviously has changed his position because his son said that he was gay, told his father that. i know your wife, your daughter, megan, support same-sex marriage, publicly made statements about t do you think if a member of your family was gay and told you that, that might influence you? i don t think so but i would like to point out that my daughter s opinions i respect. we have discussions about the issue. and she makes strong arguments and i think we ought to continue this dialogue throughout the country and by the way, i have admired your forward position and stand on this issue. well, thanks. i let s talk about syria. i want to play for you our
this one, i had not contemplated changing my position. senator portman says it is in line with his beliefs, with his catholic beliefs. he obviously has changed his position because his son said that he was gay, told his father that. i know your wife, your daughter, megan, support same-sex marriage, publicly made statements about t do you think if a member of your family was gay and told you that, that might influence you? i don t think so but i would like to point out that my daughter s opinions i respect. we have discussions about the issue. and she makes strong arguments and i think we ought to continue this dialogue throughout the country and by the way, i have admired your forward position and stand on this issue. well, thanks. i let s talk about syria. i want to play for you our viewers something that you said yesterday about it. more than 1 million refugees
country and by the way, i have admired your forward position and stand on this issue. well, thanks. i let s talk about syria. i want to play for you our viewers something that you said yesterday about it. more than 1 million refugees have fled their country at a rate of 8,000 people each day as of last month and 2.5 million people have been displaced within their country. only the general siocide of rwa the iraq war have driven more people to refugee status over a similar period of time. those are some of the deadliest conflicts in recent history. do you think syria has reached that same now? absolutely. absolutely. aid meeting with the saudi ambassador today ambassador to the united states today answered mentioned to me that not only have we got the 70,000 massacred but we also have 100,000 that are missing. you know what that means in