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00:00But do you think there will be, I mean, there are inevitably going to be people in Washington who think, look, Ashraf's administration's been there for six months.
00:09And before that, he wasn't necessarily in the headlines for all the very best reasons.
00:13Do you think there will be people in Washington who think perhaps this is all a little bit too much too soon?
00:19I do. And there are. There are voices like that. And there are loud voices like that. And I don't blame them.
00:25Look, anyone who is thinking thoughtfully about this region and about U.S. foreign policy has every right to question whether this is a step too soon.
00:37But we have to keep a few things in mind. One is Ahmad al-Shara has certainly been moving for years away from jihadist rhetoric and actions.
00:49And so far as the president and even before he was president of Syria, he's been saying all of the right things, talking about truth and reconciliation, moving beyond the painful chapters of Syria's past,
01:02engaging with allies, engaging with allies, Arabs and Europeans in the region globally, making it clear that he that he doesn't want Syria to be, you know, in war or sort of in enmity, I would say, with Israel, that he's not interested in that.
01:21So he's been saying all of the right things.