but we would be willing to engage with the iraq government on how this should look in the future. yes, go ahead. has the white house given the military authority to preempt e preemptively strike at syria if in fact you had knowledge of a looming chemical attack? then i have a north korea question no. you have not been given authority to preemptively attack if you know in advance of a syrian attack? no, we have not. thank you, mr. secretary. does the u.s. view chlorine barrel bombs filled with chlorine now as chemical weapon? the second question, going back to north korea, are there any feasible or straight forward mill friday actions that the u.s. could take that wouldn t immediately spiral into a broader regional conflict? i don t want to speculate about north korea military actions.
time cocktail party to describe russia and iran and syria here, arguing that russia needs to be delivering a message and they will not continue to stand with him. as was raised, that comes after years of russia working with the syrian regime in syria. what would make putin change his mind now? what pressure are they prepared to put on moscow. as the secretary of state is holding the crucial face-to-face meeting. not at least and it s a headline in and of itself. thank you. stand by if you will. let me spich ywitch over to bily in moscow. russia is essentially on an island right now, but vladimir putin compared the accusations about chemical weapons in syria
surprise. it is still a question mark and the president appeared to be tying the issue of trade and security on the korean peninsula, all of it as the navy is now sending the strike force to japan close to the peninsula that he intended to send a message and to beijing as well. let me go back to the meetings that will be happening with secretary of state rex tillerson. bill did outline some of this and i wanted to break down the issues that are complex in the relationship between russia and the u.s. right now. obviously syria. secretary tillerson made it clear this administration does not support assad s regime. especially after what happened last week. hacking. they called on russia to end the foreign relations and that undermines their relationship with the united states.
they need syria. it doesn t matter whether assad runs syria or anyone else runs syria. however if we can get together with russia to solve the syrian problem and make a decision on who is going run syria, there is one clinker that we can t effect. doesn t care about warm water ports. iran is in a different battle. they are aligned in propping up assad, but at the end of the day, we satisfy this russian requirement, we still have to deal with iran and they don t yield easily to strategic notions of national security. so many that are so complex. o we still think about 10 or 13 minutes from now? that s what we are thinking,
approach. is there a syria policy from the standpoint. by all indications, russia is not happy with assad. these are the chemical weapons. there could b a situation where russia is testing the u.s. to see how far it goes. both parties are saying we are talking about a regime change. there is no name people are discussing as a possible successor. he is not going anywhere today, tomorrow, or the near future. what is the in the region. they invested a lot of truth as well and if it s the only naval base outside of russia. that s a critical base for them. i want to bring this up and i hesitate, but something sean spicer said is going viral and everybody is talking about it. the comparison made to nazi germany. you top the explain that? right.