it s not the government. how do you get them to change your mind? what are they publicly say one thing and privately with tillerson in an established sergey lavrov, do that kind of come out and strike a deal in advance of more geneva talks? i certainly think now is a time to strike a deal. the calculus is different. they see what president trump has done, they witnessed what president obama was unwilling to do. so i think that now, they are going to be a little more ready to make a deal and let s be very clear. in private, the russians have been saying recently that they are a little bit tired of what s going on inside syria. they are not going to be there forever. they are frustrated with assad. if you look at the reports that are coming out out of russia and inside syria, it is plainly clear that the russians are reaching their end. however, they still want to come out of syria was something. they want to have a base, they want to make sure that they
rick, democrats say that the president will need directional authorization. president obama did not order the strikes because he didn t get congressional authorization. wouldn t it say that president trump went ahead anyway? and what are the concerns by democrats especially about the fact that there is no congressional authorization on this air strikes? it s interesting that i ve seen from republicans as well call for more congressional action. i think that s the rule. i think there are enough leaders that recognize that the resident of united states has to lead to foreign policy in the way that he or she sees fit. i think we will be able to get through this. the white house should be reaching out to the members of congress that have some concerns in sharing some of the intel to show them exactly what s going on. i also think there are some
d otrs. at the end of the day,hat faction thinks if assad loses they all get killed which may well be the outcome. so you have to have a score card to watch what s going on inside syria. kurdish interests, the turks are in there fighting against the curds. hezbollah, iranian revolutionary guards, u.s. special forces and british s.a.s., this is a mess. it s unlikely to be improved by the employment of u.s. air power. never mind getting in on the ground to try and set up safe areas. so, you know, again, my caution is let s spend a billion dollars a month on humanitarian aid for syrian refugees inside jordan and turkey and iraq and be very careful about the use of military power. if they re going to use military strikes, then they should choose a decisive objective. and not to mention even though that opens a whole nother can of worms for another
unfinished business, something that sounds eso teric to many people, it stands for economic leadership. the world wants america to stand upd and things like approving quota reform mean we re going to stay strong on the world stage for some time to come. pleasure to have you on. next on gps , i ll talk to assad s first cousin, an inside look at what s going on inside syria and what it will take to bring the assad regime to an end when we come back.
democrats voted yes. about 30 on each side, something like that, went in a different way than the majority of their party. and that was when the planes were really ready to go into bosnia. he went. and you know what happened there. so i don t i don t think that the congressional authorization is necessary. i do think it s a good thing. and i hope that we can achief it. i feel pretty confident on the evidence, the intelligence, the national interests that is at stake, that we have a good conversation to have with our members. i myself i ll tell you this story and then i really do have to go. my 5-year-old grandson, as i was leaving san francisco yesterday, he said to me, mimi, my name, mimi, war with syria, are you yes war with syria, no war with syria? he s 5 years old. war, he says war. we re not talking about war but