Every day we come to our jobs in the State Department and in the U.S. Government working on Syria, our goal is to ensure that that Assad regime does not gain another inch unless we have a political process and everybody wins, not just him.
Jeffrey emphasizes the U.S. goal to prevent Assad's regime from gaining territory without a political process.
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