objective to remove ashad. >> to agree that ashad is winning right now?>> i think he is in a much stronger place than he was a year ago. >> thank you you have always been very honest with this committee. do you believe obama will leave office and ashad will still be in power in january 2017. >> i don't see a situation where he is not in power in january. >> so the only way a side is ever going to leave as if there's military pressure on him that makes the threat militarily more real to him. >> i think that's a fair statement. >> okay so if the main force inside syria is not signed up to take ashad out, where does that for some from? >> i can identify that force but i do want to distinguish between what you are suggesting with ashad. the reason why i support the s df is my number one priority is to stop the planning of activities and this is the way to do that. >> let's look at it this way. i isil is germany and ashad is japan. can they liberate rocca and hold it? >> they do not intend to hold the area, no. >> what is the plan to hold rocca west mark. >> w

ashad been down by as much minus .7%, so we're going to be how investors are taking in that information. seen global, we've stock markets reacting by not raising interest rates just yet set the ground for a hike by the end of the year. we saw major european industries jumping. there is over -- we've been wall street trading higher this thursday. stocks up between about .8% each. and investors have been weighed down expectedby weaker than data for housing sales in the month of august. organization trade has ruled that european aircraft makerrer airbus has been receiving billions of euros in illegal funding from e.u. members, even after they were ordered to cut them off. that's the latest twist in more long ofecade transatlantic spots. yet to rule on a similar complaint that boeing benefits from billions of tax breaks in the u.s. airbus says it will appeal the judgment. begunrench court has hearing what could be the country's biggest ever case of fraud. french authorities demanded more than 550 million european unions back -- euros from back taxes from a man who appeared this paris.y in t

as a matter of fact, they avoid ashad in this process. i think the temporary truce that was created never had a real calculation to actually effectuate the results that secretary carry intended which i would've applauded but it was to give ashad the ability to rearmo and reorganize and then immediately incredible despicable attacks made against umana tearing calm voice. my question is this, i would've asked what plan b is too. i don't get a sense that there is one and that worries me, i don't think we should wait for the next president to start devising something that moves in that direction. i understand that sec. carey has threatened to end bilateral talks with russia over syria but i can't fathom for the life of me what those talks are producing anyhow. russia seems to agree only for the purposes of giving aside time to rearm and regroup. what leverage do we really have. what are we doing here to russia to change its calculation because now, whether we like it or not, they are the major player.pl i have had a totally different view tha

the street against a side, it was a collection of different types of group that were taking up off ashad because he was so oppressive. at the time there is also an element that transcended that. that spectrum has unfortunately grown larger and it is very difficult to support a large opposition that has. looking back, 2020 hindsight, people could say sure, if we only supported them more strongly, we would've been able to push objectives but when you look at libya -- there's a fair amount of energy and chaos there you can take care of certain threats by use of military threat, but the use of military force brings another day. how are you going to plan to rebuild out of the rubble from airstrikes what you need to build for the future and syria is the most complicated and vexing issue i have ever had to deal with in 36 years years because there are so many internal and journal actors, competing interests as we try to bring an end to the asad regime which has exterminated. >> was a mistake not to enforce in 2013? >> the results of the statement of the red line, syria chemical weapons were vir

ashad a good sense of humor well as being a brilliant economist.e -- "newsweek" hired me in the 1980's to write a column that he had previously written, and he sent me a nice note saying that someone named sanderson cannot be all bad. host: more numbers. we're talking about the time barack obama has been president mostly, from 2000 9-2016. this is average gas price per gallon. you see on the screen. 2012 to as high as $2.06 and is now down to nationwide. mr. samuelson: i think with this table shows you is that we don't control oil or gasoline prices in any sort of obvious way or you would not have these huge fluctuations. you have gasoline at one dollar or two dollars forever. secondly, what you see in the trend is that in 2009, we were in the midst of the great recession, which was a consequence of the financial crisis. people were driving less. companies were producing less. this was a worldwide phenomenon. worldwideand oil are commodities, there were depressed prices. as we recovered from the great recession, prices when backup and they got up o

so far as the syrian civil war, the violence can't and until there is a political transition from ashad to a government that is decent and can govern the syrian people and put that broken country back together. insight, it is what we talked earlier about secretary carry trying to make arrangements to promote, but it is necessary for the resolution of what is a very tragic situation. >> let me just ask this, if you don't mind, it would help if the barrel bombing ended and i spoke to a democratic colleague of mine today and i've been calling for a no-fly zone to stop the barrel bombing and i asked this colleague of mine on the other side of the aisle if he would support that and he said yes, i want to call it something else rather than a no-fly zone, but at this particular point it is a fact that the senator has now changed his position and would like us to take action to prevent the barrel bombing. what is your position about that and wouldn't help if we took decisive action and ended this carnage. >> i don't know the specific proposal of which you are discussing with your colleague, i'l