ambassador to russia under president obama, and steven hadley, george w. bush's last national security advisor. gentlemen, welcome to you both. ambassador mcfall, let me start with you. to unpack the president's statement there, he said putin was going in out of a position of weakness because assad was crumbling. by that logic, if assad was on that close to crumbling, did we miss an opportunity to sort of push assad over the crumbling line six months ago? >> i would say four years ago, chuck. the real moment for opportunity for change in syria was when there were hundreds of thousands of peaceful demonstrators, assad looked very weak then, isis did not exist in syria at the moment and that was an opportunity lost. six months ago or two weeks ago i think it's a much more complex terrain, though i do agree with the president, putin has had the same policy for four years, which is to support assad. he believes that's a way to peace and stability in syria. that policy of putin's hasn't worked, so he's had to double down with these latest military attacks. >> s

. >> steven hadley, let's look at where we are now. obviously we can go back and i think everybody is backseat driving the president, including hillary clinton on that front. does this mean now that despite us wanting to say assad has to go before you can fully defeat isis, that we're stuck with assad? >> well, i think we need to step back and say what are our objectives here? our objective is there's a huge humanitarian crisis that is overwhelming the neighboring states, it's threatening europe. we have isis, which controls territory. they are training tens of thousands of terrorists that at against our friends and allies and potentially the united states. and we have a civil war going on and as long as that civil war goes on, this chaos and violence will continue. so we have to step back and say what are our objectives here, what do we need to do? i think the first step we need do is we need to get engaged. we've been basically absent without leave for the last four years, and the situation has degenerated in the way a lot of people

according to former national security adviser steven hadley, it is time for america to step up. >> theay we have to be engaged, and if you're worried about russia establishing a sphere of influence, the way to stop that is for the united states to start leading. to say that it would be better for a man who has killed over 250,000 people, displaced half of his country, ruined his economy that it would be better for him to stay in power, i mean, it's a kind of lesson to the world. if you kill enough of your own people the world will let you stay in power. that's a terrible lesson. it's not america. >> eric, he's right, the first part is right. russia is reacting because we created a vacuum by not acting. the second part, though, about throwing assad out, what about what donald trump said about the dictators like assad are better for world peace than so-called democracy? >> i agree with you the vacuum we left available, russia filled that void. obviously they were going to do it. i've heard twice now we should declare syria a no-strike zone. my opinion for the last two or three years has

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her deputy steven hadley and another deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism, fran townsend. so, i'd like to divide my comments into two parts. first, what i would call the prep part. what my life was like getting ready for the briefing and secondly, the key elements of the job as the briefer in the room with the policymaker. my wife was not thrilled when i mentioned i was taking on the job. when i told her well, i'll be going to bed at 6:00 tonight, dear, because i got to get to work by 12:30, so i would spend from 12:30 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. getting ready to be the briefer that day. so, you might ask yourself, why do you need six hours to prepare? it's a pretty small book. four or five pieces. what's the problem here? the short answer is as david noted, i'm really a rush at hand from the past and suddenly, i found myself having to brief about nuclear programs, nuclear proliferation, weird goings on in north korea. take your pick of the world and suddenly i had to brief on this. so, part of my prep was familiarize yourself closely with the piece. what's the main analytic lin