Saudi Foreign Minister: Bashar al-Assad "Is Finished"

CNN's Christiane Amanpour talks to Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir about ISIS, Syria, Iran and what it will take to stabilize the situation in the Middle East.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: What is your assessment of the strength of Bashar al-Assad now given the three and a half months of Russian airstrikes that have supported him.

ADEL AL-JUBEIR: I believe Bashar al-Assad is weak and I believe Bashar al-Assad is finished and I believe Bashar al-Assad has no future in Syria. Bashar al-Assad butchered, massacred, and killed his people--men, women, and children--and his military couldn't save him. So he prevailed upon the Iranians to come and support him, who sent their Quds Force and their Revolutionary Guards. And they, in turn, couldn't save him. So Iran and Bashar al-Assad mobilized Hezbollah, Shia militias from Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and they, in turn, couldn't save him. And now we have Russia going into Syria, in support of Bashar al-Assad, and they will not be able to save him. A man who is responsible for the murder of 300,000-plus people, the displacement of twelve million people, and the destruction of a country is a man with absolutely no future in this country.

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Bashar al-Assad will leave. Have no doubt about it. He will either leave by a political process or he will be removed by force.