I don't know him, when I sit with him face-to-face, I can judge him. But I only look at the person on the TV, you know, on the TV you can manipulate everything, you can...rehearse, you can prepare yourself...

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I don't know him, when I sit with him face-to-face, I can judge him. But I only look at the person on the TV, you know, on the TV you can manipulate everything, you can...rehearse, you can prepare yourself..." in the context of "Bashar al-Assad, Interview with Bill Neely (July 2016) on "NBC: Exclusive Interview with Bashar al-Assad"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.