the suggest shens and puts mike pompeo in an incredible position going into as the head of the cia when donald trump is so dismissive of the allegation coming out of that organization. i think today s question out of today s meeting does donald trump have such a firm world view that he simply won t let the facts, as presented to him, change that perception that he already has? however well, mike clapper does in presenting the findings they have on the russian hacking, will donald trump be prepared to change his opinion? and i think that is going to be very interesting or does he just have such a fixed view that nothing is going to shift it? david ignatius, we are going to get into the facts of in one moment. i want your general impression today leading into this meeting where actually that first line in the new york times lead, bipartisan, underline it, circle it, highlight it.
have some sort of interest in preventing that. mike clapper, good to see you. thanks for being with me. thank you. with me now, congressman adam shipp. pleasure to see you. thank you. good to see you. what are your hopes for this meeting between putin and our secretary of state? i m setting my expectations pretty low. i think there will come a point as the assad regime weakens where russia will decide assad is not capable of keeping this country together and ruling it indefinitely. there there will have to be a post-assad transition. hopefully we can find some way of working with russia to identify what that transition government will be with be how to avoid the state just collapsing and providing new ground for isis and al qaeda. is it too late for that, though? congressman, the situation there is so dire and there are 1,500 opposition groups in syria alone that we know of. i don t think it s too late in the sense that up till now it