article_snippet: ways to pressure Assad into agreeing to talks, U.S. Secretary of .
article_snippet: the standard U.S. line that Assad had lost all legitimacy and . had to go.
article_snippet: for a negotiated transition to end the conflict.
article_snippet: did not name, were exploring ways to reignite the diplomatic . process to end the conflict. '
article_snippet: What we're pushing for is to get him (Assad) to come and do .
article_snippet: To get Assad's regime to negotiate, We're going to have .
article_snippet: to make it clear to Assad that there is a determination by .
article_snippet: everybody to seek that political outcome and change Assad .
article_snippet: calculation about negotiating,' Assad said. '
article_snippet: to destroy Russia by providing aid to an insurgency now .