"The problem for us, Anderson, is that, you know, successive administration is going back to the early '90s and tried to reign in North Korean nuclear program without succeeding."
"The Russians really do need at the end of the day some way out of the Syrian (inaudible)."
"If we're not able and the Iraqis are not able to affect the conditions that led to the rise of ISIL in the first place, once it's defeated, it won't stay defeated and you will have ISIL 2.0."
"There's a clear limiting principal here in upholding a principal. That principal is you don't use chemical or biological weapons."
"The challenge now, Anderson, is that we do want to keep our eyes on the prize and that is the fight against ISIL and that fight is going well."
"Well, for now. But there are two problems. One is the president's painted himself into something of a corner. Even if he really wanted to improve relations with Russia for whatever reason, there's so ..."
"It is, because if you're -- anything that you do that allows that basic principal that you don't use chemical weapons or biological weapons in our conflict anywhere, that if you're undermining that pr..."
"At the same time, the trick is to be tough with Russia, to hold them to account for what Assad is doing with chemical and biological weapons, but not to overplay the hand to the point that Russia star..."
"If you don't do it, we're going to have to continue to take steps to protect ourselves and protect our allies and partners."
"Secretary Tillerson is going to Moscow in the middle of the next week, actually, I think he should move up the trip and go as quickly as possible, and basically say to the Russians we're going to hold..."
"And if the United States is not prepared to stand up when that norm is violated, I don't think anyone else will and it's vitally important to the international community if we do so."