It's your duty to ask and my duty to ask you back. So, you know, at the request of a lot of countries in the surrounding area of the Middle east, including Bibi, we will. We took the sanctions off Syria and I met the new leader. I was very impressed by him. Somebody said, well, he comes from a very tough background. I said, well, you know, I'm not that surprised. It's a tough part of the world. (27:57–28:02)
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