combatants. some of them from the same plain clothed special forces units who were sent to ukraine, members of an airborne rifle brigade, the equivalent of u.s. army rangers. ukraine s president said russia is using the same playbook they did in crimea. these days our men are landing in the hundreds in syria. reporter: the state department continues to publicly downplay the reports. i don t know that i would call it a buildup. it s unclear exactly what some of these military activities are all about. i don t know that, you know, we re ready at this point to call it a buildup necessarily. reporter: he visited moscow from july 24th through 26th, just ten days after the nuclear deal was announced. despite a travel ban and u.n. security council resolutions barring him from leaving iran. israeli security officials have been quoted saying iran has sent hundreds of fighters into syria in recent days to work with the russians. at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. and now for
they re tired of getting these people that don t do anything, that have no energy. and it s true. people don t have energy. i don t think ben has the energy. ben is a nice man, but when you re negotiating against china, and you re negotiating against these japanese guys that are going to come at you in waves, and they think we re all a bunch of jerks because our leaders are so stupid and so incompetent and so inept, we need people that are really smart that have tremendous deal making skills and that have great, great energy. [ applause ] we had a case where hillary said and jeb said. and they used the same word. and it was the same day a couple of weeks ago. i don t like donald trump s tone. his tone. my tone. we have people, christians, in syria and other places, isis is
they say they are sending equipment to help him fight isis. translator: if a priority is to fight against terrorism selfish considerations like changing of power in syria should be put aside. all the more so when previous attempt to change in iraq,libya have led to the growth of the terrorist threat. reporter: yesterday president obama met with groups pushing back. he want russia to stop sending support to assad. we are going to be engaging russia to let them know that you can t continue to double down on a strategy that s doomed to fail. this is going to be a long discussion that we ll be having with the russians but it is not going to prevent us from continuing to go after isil very hard. reporter: both obama and russian president putin will be
more broadly what does this mean going forward for u.s. involvement? they talk about safe havens. the idea you push isis out and allow refugee, hundreds of thousands of them to go back to a safe place. that s going to take an awful lot of doing. for the more immediate future. turkish officials allow warplanes, uavs, drones, as we call them to use an air base in southern turkey, and that can significantly up the tempo of operations there. the turkish in the fight, too. this alters things quite fast in the future to come but as a big sting to all of this, too. turkey is open potentially to isis retaliation. that could mean attacks on western targets, turkish military targets. that s why many say turkey have not been in the fight early on, and we ll have to see what this does for the war inside syria. used to be against the regime. now against isis. it s so complex but now has a
what they thought would happen in syria is not happening. the premise was that assad would fall good guys would take over and they would take care of the bad guys. assad is not falling and bad guys are taking over. so the turks have realized their premise was false and they re coming closer to the united states in terms of isis policy. turkey will now be targeted unfortunately, by isis. the group is going to get angry and is going to try to change turkey s mind by being aggressive inside turkish territory. i think because isis has used turkey as a crossing point for about four or five years now, they know the weaknesses of the turkish system and they probably have a network inside turkey of recruits and safe houses so they will unfortunately, be able to carry out some attacks and turkey will have to crack down on isis. so we might have some bad news coming from southern turkey in the coming days and that will be very unfortunate. although turkey has joined the u.s.-led coalition, the