saying it will only lead to further bloodshed. our cnn s chris frates, he is live in washington with the latest. and chris, this certainly seems in many ways to be an escalation. reporter: well, that s right, suzanne. i mean, president obama really came out swinging yesterday against critics of his syrian policy. they ve suggested that russia now has the upper hand there. and you re right, you remember that earlier this week, russian president vladimir putin began bombing what russia says were islamic state terrorists. but president obama said that s not true, arguing that russia is bombing isis and syrian rebels, fighting to overthrow syrian president, bashar al assad. mr. putin had to go into syria, not out of strength, but out of weakness. because his client, mr. assad, was crumbling, and it was insufficient for him, simply, to send them arms and money. iran and assad make up mr. putin s coalition at the moment.
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mysteries. we have been very clear. right along. about all these things and so i don t think there s any doubt about what our position is with respect to the veto. thank you, mr. secretary. i have two quick questions on syria. the syrian opposition groups saying civilians were killed in the attacks and strikes by rush why and the syrian national coalition president is encouraging now more than ever a no-fly zone to protect civilians s. that being discussed here at the pentagon? and then, also, you had mentioned that the talks were going to be to avoid incidents and also to avoid actions that would interfere in the fight against isil. but isn t the fact that a russian general would come and ask the united states to stay out of the syrian air space, isn t that already interfering with the fight against isil? let s see. you got several things there. to get to the last part, just going to say it again. we intend to continue our air
that s something that the white house is pointing to today as measured progress. they re also responding, thomas, to criticism of senator john mccain who s pointed to this escalation we re seeing in syria as a fact that the u.s. posture in syria isn t robust enough, josh pressing back saying, look, russia is increasing i ll take it back to you. forgive me. we ll take it to defense secretary ash carter. let s see. i have several topics i want to cover today. let me begin with syria. last week, i observed from this podium as i had observed privately to russian minister of defense shogu the week prior that there is a logical contradiction in the russian position and now its actions in syria. russia states an intent to fight isil on the one hand and to
transition is only going to fuel the opposition and therefore the extremism and the violence. tony? let me ask you, get you on the record on the national defense authorization, you laid out the budget consequences of sequestration and cr. are you going to recommend to the president to veto the bill to go to the floor tomorrow? i and other advisers already have and he s indicated if it s presented to him in the form it appears it is going to be presented to him it is going to be vetoed. this is the national defense authorization act so yes. that is unchanged, tony. that s the same position. a message to the country who listening to you and the world is basically aflame in a lot of ways and basically recommending vetoing the defense policy bill. isn t that a contradiction? no. what we need, first of all, is an appropriations bill that funds the department. the authorization bill contains
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