Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don't know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

In reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars, and all this propaganda, the strongest media corporations around the world, if you don't have the support of your own people. That's against the reality.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement... contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.