up on the battlefield because of this. in turkey, at the pentagon, on capitol hill, and i want to start with keir simmons on the ground in southern turkey near the border with turkey. keir, i understand that a little bit earlier this morning you were close to some of where this assault whas happening. what are you hearing and seeing? that s right. this is a conflict that has kind of escalated through the day and actually we just heard a martor from the syrian side land in that direction. we heard in the last hour from the governor, you can hear the artillery fire there, we heard from the governor here where we are in turkey, that three people were killed when a mortar landed here, including a child. and you can see behind me, if i step away at syria itself, across the border, you can see there, that town of tall abad
kinds of problems as early. i think he wanted to focus on job creation. but he s got a great national security team. i thought secretary tillerson was perfect when he said look, either the russians collaborate and knew this was happening whether russians were duped and they re just incompetent. but they have to choose one or the other, and i think that second tillerson is going to be very firm tomorrow and say to the russians there is a path forward where we look work together but that path cannot include assad and new, the russian state, have to decide which team you re on. very telling by the way, and the entire world, the only countries that publicly objected to the president hitting syria were syria itself, iran, north korea, and russia. nobody else. so vladimir putin has to feel a little bit isolated at the moment. martha: it s an interesting strategy whom, and as you just pointed out, it is quite different from what we heard from candidate donald trump on the campaign trail.
all of these years of negligent is close to having nuclear weapons within intercontinental capability to reach the u.s., i think he s also made the decision that after a year of being lied to where both president obama and secretary of state kerry claim things that were just plain false that assad really is totally unacceptable. it s very telling by the way, martha, in the entire world, the only countries that publicly objected to the president hitting syria were syria itself, iran, north korea and russia, nobody else, so putin has to feel a little bit isolated at the moment. jackie: u.s. is hoping that isolation will bring them to the table. heather: taking another shot at apologizing to the passenger dragged off the plane.
kinds of problems as early. i think he wanted to focus on job creation. but he s got a great national security team. i thought secretary tillerson was perfect when he said look, either the russians collaborate and knew this was happening whether russians were duped and they re just incompetent. but they have to choose one or the other, and i think that second tillerson is going to be very firm tomorrow and say to the russians there is a path forward where we look work together but that path cannot include assad and new, the russian state, have to decide which team you re on. very telling by the way, and the entire world, the only countries that publicly objected to the president hitting syria were syria itself, iran, north korea, and russia. nobody else. so vladimir putin has to feel a little bit isolated at the moment. martha: it s an interesting strategy whom, and as you just pointed out, it is quite different from what we heard
restore any kind of order for a long period of time. there s also the issue of isis in syria and their territorial growth over the border. we got this headline from the wall street journal today where it talks about how the obama administration had secret talks to get rid of bashar al assad, that failed to infiltrate his regime to push him out, to relinquish power. and now some say he s wanting to join peace talks. what do you make of that when it comes to the future of syria s leadership? everybody knows that ultimately assad is going to go one way or the other. and everybody involved, the united states, syria itself, russia, china, iran, everybody wants a seat at the table to decide what the fate of syria is going to be. and assad, knowing that ultimately he s going to be gone is perfectly willing to at least talk about sitting down for peace talks because it s the