Tim Kaine: Obama Not Doing Enough to End Syrian Civil War

GEIST: “President laid out four points in his speech last week from the Oval Office about what he’s doing to fight ISIS. Why he believe it’s working. Do you think we need to do more?”

KAINE: “Yeah, I think we got to do more and I look at a little differently. There’s three [indecipherable] problems. The war against ISIL, the greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II and Syria, and a Syrian civil war. They all connect and in each one you got to do a little bit more. So, in ISIL, let’s start with Congress authorizing it and showing the American resolve. The Duma in Russia, the Parliament in England, the National Assembly in France, the Bundestag in Germany have all debated and voted to go after ISIL. So, we’ve got to do that. On the humanitarian crisis, we made a mistake by not doing the no-fly zone in northern Syria. We could have done it two years ago, when it probably would stopped about 2 million people from leaving. We can still do it and it will still have an effect. And on the civil war, that’s going to be the key and at least the parties are back around the table in Vienna and we got to really push that. Because this will continue to be a problem —it’s going to be a problem anyway, but it will always be a problem as long as the civil war is going on.”

BRZEZINSKI: “Senator Tim Kaine, thank you very much.” [crosstalk]