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>> a few things are odd about this. the requests from november and january, is for. of time in between two administrations during the transition process, to undermine the incoming administration. if nikki haley, the un ambassador and trump, and didnt incoming administration there would be some hot questions asked from the left. it is strange miss powers position as un ambassador seeking these, that seems like a weird official to be doing this sort of thing. and looking into this, there was a fed...

Against assad. >> i think the israel list didnt admit to it, that there was kinds of things that they say is that they feel oppressed from some of the drones and various things that are coming out that are being supported as one reads about this by hamas or iran. and that there had to be some way of saying this is unacceptable. but the israelis did this, again, they never had admitted it, erpler in terms of stopping a threat to what they consider their security. basically coming from forces that...

Syria is different than what the united states is doing in the rest of syria, which is fighting isis 234 isis. the administrations them have the authority to do that by previous authorization to fight al qaeda and to fight the war in iraq. so if you cross the line and going after the regime itself, thats the syrian government. a different war. a different battle, requires differ legal standing. usually the u.s. wants to have some sort of stamp of approval from the united nations security council...

Well, we heard that in vietnam, too. >> senator, its interesting. the war powers act was devised coming out of vietnam. 1973 to find a different way to have a president have to report and now many of your colleagues in both parties are relying on that so the president can do what he wants. i dont see the legal argument for that. i dont see it in those two pieces of statutory authority. my question to you is, you raise a lot of interesting issues. shouldnt you guys have to debate and own whatever...

Decisions going on. also, we should note, that the national security council spokesperson also announced his departure earlier this week. two departures we have seen since john bolton has taken over here. tom bossert is the latest one right now. >> how many are left before they start filling in the holes? kaitlan, thank you so much. lets discuss this and everything else. dana bash is joining me now and chris cillizza. dana, it seems that tom bossert, i dont even know if we call it a resignatio...

The previous administrations happened, issued new sanctions on numerous individuals and entities in russia, condemning russias poising of uk citizens on uk soil, authorized military strikes against the asad regime in syria. >> reporter: getting the president has been clear in his intention to respond to syrian chemical attacks. todd: ditch the nra or lose our business. jillian: the brand-new threat to wells fargo. >> reporter: the american federation of teachers threatening to pull its business ...

National guard and, whatever it takes to secure our country because we are a country. >> harris: so we are seeing from these governors a list of the things of the national guard will be doing. kind of behind the scenes to support trade >> lisa: its the stuff that the national guard did under the past two administrations with george w. bush as well as president obama when they sent the national guard to this southern border as well. but put me down in the know column as well for california on thi...

Notably what took place in puerto rico, hes obviously spoken out strongly about cybersecurity. and just of this last weekend he was on one of the sunday morning shows speaking out in effect on behalf of this administration as americans anticipated what president trumps response might be to the chemical weapons attack in syria saying that all options are on the table. as for the timing of this, its not entirely clear what led up to this decision. we need to try to report out some of those details...

Authority. something has to be done. when you say tariffs, i dont know if it will be tariffs, but the president will be correct. he has a backbone. prior administrations would not do anything with china. and trump is out there saying if you negotiate with us, we may not need the tariffs but trump may use tariffs and i want to make that clear. he is in the right. china has broken all the laws in trading and with. wtos, and you know that too. you cant steal our technology. we have to do something ...

Experience in government, has experience dealing with crises that administrations dont expect. he was president bushs ambassador to the united nations. this is a different time, a different role, and it is a very different president. but i think the one thing that we have to remember and it is sort of easy to lose sight of in this atmosphere where news cycles last five minutes and it -- you feel like youre careening from crisis to crisis watching this white house is most of those crises, john, a...