using a camera asad provided.t was the plot, a group of poor men in miami with no real al qaeda connections, no bombs in their positions, wanting to attack a skyscraper more than 2,000 kilometers away. batiste asked asad to give them $2,000. the liberty city 7 desperate for cash claimed they were running a scam. >> we wanted to get money from this guy, we didn't believe he was a terrorist. >> my name is rothschild augustin. liberty 7, our mind was on the money. it was messed up, a stupid idea, didn't know how everything turned out you know but that was our mind frame at the time. >> as part of the operation, asad agreed to deliver a new van to replace this aging pickup truck. filmed here by fbi agents following close by. asad also offered to rent a larger warehouse for the group. money was no object. >> pull big trucks in here. >> okay this yours, i'll do my best no matter how much it will cost, no matter how much you want, you want this, i propose to bring this to you. >> asad suggested the men come to the wareho

the residents blamed forces loyal to syrian president bashar al al asad.ials say police turned students over to a gang and they had not been seen since. >>> well, u.s. democrats are reeling after a series of stinging defeats on election day. the result mean republicans will soon control both houses of congress. >> the big question is now can the gop and barack obama actually work together for the last two years of his presidency. >> the united states has big things to do. we can and we will make progress. >> president obama says he hopes to meet the new senate majority leader for one of his home state's best known berchls. >> i would enjoy having some kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. >> reporter: mcconnell offered the president something else to savor, a vow he repeated more than once that in a break with the past, republicans will not impose a funding freeze to close the government or threaten default on the national debt. and they want to cooperate as much as they can. >> there are probably some areas and that's what we're going to be talking about

asad himself is somebody that we believe has caused this. therefore, that's why it isn't a choice because there is -- it's so binary that we need to switch from one to the other. because isil is developed into a greater threat, we need to support assad. >> let me be clear. you are saying that the priority is to get rid of isil? and we all accept that this is not going to be immediate. this is a long-term process. that presumably means, whereas two years ago the government was talking about the imminent end of the assad regime, where he envisioning assad in some form controlling considerable parts of syrian territory for perhaps years or even longer to come? >> i will return to this in a second. >> i think the answer to that is no, we're not. we do think that, if you like, the first concentration of our intervention should be against isil. but the effect of that mustn't be that we thereby strengthen assad or that while we fight with others isil that the flame of the syrian opposition is sort of extinguished. and, therefore, we have to be able

do you believe that asad is getting stronger now that we are attacking only isis in syria? >> as we make it a stronger counterweight, asad will get weaker and his position will change. >> but we are not attacking them and that is a fact are we? >> currently know. >> we are not attacking a solid al-assad. the best way to deal with them is to transition him out so that the moderate opposition can fill the vacuum. that's what we've been working on. over the weekend president obama was asked if he was discussing ways to remove the president al-assad as part of a political transition and his response was no. are we working to transition him out or not? >> the president said repeatedly and i'm not sure the exact words that you are referring to. >> it's fairly simple. he said no. >> said the president was incorrect when asked if he was actively discussing ways to remove him as part of a political transition and the answer was no. >> it's been focused on the effort to support the moderate opposition and build it as a counter person to change the dynamic so we can get to the transit

not the free syrian army, asad's army. we partner with them.they're our enemies but we have a common interest and we should be arming the forces that are in the town of kobani. they've been asking for weapons. they've been asking for assets we can provide. ammunition. we have not given it to them. they're willing to fight isis on the front lines and we're not answering their call. >> tipping point was long ago and now we're seeing beyond the tipping point. it is painful. all right. no doubt it will come up in the news again and we'll cover it as it does. former president clinton did a clot of stomping for midterm election candidates and now he's speaking out on the political beating democrats took at the polls and offering some advice to president obama. and some nfl teams got a surprise visit yesterday and not from the fans. federal drug agents showing up, checking out their cabinets. yet another problem for the nfl as it continues to rake in big audiences, big dollars coming back on big outnumbered. if you're suffering from constipation or ir

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about not just the military component so, as they clear an area, whether it's up to baji or out to al asad, they've got to follow it up with governance, economic development, humanitarian sance. otherwise that insurgency will persist. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> gentleman from mr. minnesota, mr. klein is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen. just following up on the discussion in the last minute or, two i think it's important for all of us in this committee, all of us in america for that matter and certainly you, gentlemen, to keep the focus on what the policy is. the policy is to defeat isis, our enemy. whatever we do with iraq is a tool in achieving that policy. it's not -- our ultimate goal here isn't to protect iraq and build a stable iraq, we just need that tool to effect our policy of defeating isis. and sometimes i think we forget. we start talking about how many wars we're in or what are we doing, can the iraqis defend their own country and so forth, all useful discussion, but the policy is to defeat isis. general dempsey, are americans flying helicopters

about not just the military component so, as they clear an area, whether it's up to baji or out to al asad, they've got to follow it up with governance, economic development, humanitarian sance. otherwise that insurgency will persist. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> gentleman from mr. minnesota, mr. klein is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen. just following up on the discussion in the last minute or, two i think it's important for all of us in this committee, all of us in america for that matter and certainly you, gentlemen, to keep the focus on what the policy is. the policy is to defeat isis, our enemy. whatever we do with iraq is a tool in achieving that policy. it's not -- our ultimate goal here isn't to protect iraq and build a stable iraq, we just need that tool to effect our policy of defeating isis. and sometimes i think we forget. we start talking about how many wars we're in or what are we doing, can the iraqis defend their own country and so forth, all useful discussion, but the policy is to defeat isis. general dempsey, are americans flying helicopters