Country. we don t want to come to united states. we want to stay in our country, with all due respect. this is hypocrisy. if you really care, if you really care, help us stay in our country. we don t want to become refugees. we want to stay in our country. help us establish safe zones. understand. help us stay in our country, and if you just give me a few seconds just to tell president trump once again, please, sir, what you did was amazing, what you did was powerful message of hope for a lot of people inside and outside of syria. please, don t stop on this. please, help syrians stay in their country. please establish safe zones and please take out assad owes air force so they won t be able to commit more atrocities committing traditional weapon. just so people can know what we ve suffered in the pass six
Weapons, the very staunch move by the trump administration has sent a snell that this administration s strategic restraint is limited. and chemical weapons is a line that should not be crossed. that now affects u.s. russian relations. it s very timely that rex tillerson, the secretary of state, is going to be in moscow next week. that is going to take on critical dimensions, that discussion. but putin has to think of the big picture and that s the strategic relationship between the united states and russia. and iran has to think very carefully of the person and the regime that its supported in syria. owning these types of regimes has its consequences. so what pleases me about all of this is that a signal has been sent out that it s not a free ride to be supporting the policies of a regime like this. mr. ambassador, greatly appreciate your time and insights today.
Chemical weapons. this could be a one off. if assad stops using chemical weapons. is that possible or has the united states now bought in to the syrian civil war? i think the decision to launch the missiles in response to assad using the weapons t looks like gas has used which the syrians have had for many years in their inventory which we thought had been dismanteled by the russian broker deal but obviously not. i think this signal is one that is very deliberately targeted to the chemical weapons use as a red line that this
Produced in the middle east. think of your steps and how they have impacted on the political settlement process in syria. now, today s appeal to move forward with the political process, they are hipocritical unfortunately. over recent days there have been clear progress. now, what aims guided you when you undertook you undermined this progress and the progress achieved was not thanks to you at all. now returning to the history of chemical weapons, now in syria
Chinese president xi jinping left florida after a high-stakes visit by president trump. he did talk about the military operation in syria after the two had dinner but today it was back to bilateral discussions. trump called his meeting with the chinese leader, quote, tremendous. i think truly progress has been made. we ll be making additional progress. the relationship developed by president xi and myself. i think he s outstanding. we look forward to being together many times in the future and lots of very potentially bad problems will be going away. david is back with us today,