warned of dangerous currents making his feelings clear about putin s new shadow in the middle east. we re told that such retrenchment is required to beat back disorder. reporter: he slammed the recipe for beating isis, whose main ingredient is propping up asaad. we should support asaad who drops barrel bombs because the alternative is surely lors. reporter: with no end in sight, putin is essentially proposing a plan b. instead of supporting the syrian rebels like the u.s., russia wants to back asaad. so it s sharing an intelligence agreement with iraq, iran and syria. translator: asaad s forces and kurds militia are fighting in syria. reporter: putin blamed the
the nations to continue to impose their will on the smaller ones speaking of ukraine occupied by russia and mentioned crimea which is important, and georgia which is also occupied by russia, but it is not mentioned there, but by u.s. officials in other venue, and if he keeps going with this message, then putin will fail to des design this meeting as the end of the diplomatic isolation. and nobody is meeting with him sh, and that is a strong and di low matic standing of him in russia. i want to ask about the meetingb because it is assumed that one of the two topics coming up with the president is the new intelligence agreement between iraq, russia, syria and iran. does this deputy secretary of state anthony blinken was asked about it, and how it would brought up in the meeting, and listen to what he said.
we re going to see more scrutiny of their body language. but what the u.s. president is pushing for is details and intentions, goals, objectives, what is vladimir putin planning to do in syria now that we have seen this very bold, dramatic step up and really doubling down on his support for the syrian president there. what s he doing? we didn t learn any of that today when vladimir putin spoke. no details there at all. just a repetition of long held grievances and repeating that policy clearly there stand iingy assad. that s their man. but what do they do now? it s this intelligence agreement, this acord that was signed. you have russia, iran, iraq and syria agreeing to share intelligence. we have u.s. there and there s intelligence happening there as well. i have to imagine that there s some nerves frayed on the u.s. side of things, but could russia and the u.s. be on unlikely partners for peace?
repeating it, that s another matter entirely. so we have a relationship with flat is part of an intelligence agreement where we basically agree not only to share large amounts of important intelligence but not to spy on one another and so what the accusation here is of our closest ally sort of violating a really core agreement. i think you can tell from the strength of their response how sort of out of line that accusation is. susan hennessey, thanks for your time. still to come, after trump s new travel ban was blocked by a federal judge, the president is vowing to take the case to the supreme court. the hawaii attorney general whose challenge led to that temporary restraining order is my guest ahead. i can stay. i m good.