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Things that trumps campaign exposed was that there was a much larger appetite among republicans for a less interventionist foreign policy. now 78 days in the trump administration, here is donald trump launching air strikes in syria and look who he is receiving praise from. marco rubio, john mccain, lindsey graham. these are hawkish republican voices. these are voices who were intensely critical of trumps foreign policy views during the campaign. there are also democrats praising donald trump rig...

And others commended his action. they state was appropriate and justified and targeted to the incidents at hand. howie: its different when you are commander-in-chief. hillary clinton before the attack said she would be in favor of striking assads airfields. she said we cant talk about protecting syrian babies and close americas doors to them. >> the president believes there should be a safe space in syria for them. most syrians want to live at home. they deserve a safe homeland as all people do,...

And others commended his action. they state was appropriate and justified and targeted to the incidents at hand. howi its different when you are commander-in-chief. hillary clinton before the attack said she would be in favor of striking assads airfields. she said we cant talk about protecting syrian babies and close americas doors to them. >> the president believes there should be a safe space in syria for them. most syrians want to live at home. they deserve a safe homeland as all people do, a...

This is been well-received by and large around the world. but to bretts point a lot of people are saying that this was proportionate it didnt go overboard just responded to that one airfield they think the chemical attack came from but what about the fact that there are five other airfields that he uses that we didnt attack? >> it was proportionate because it was where the chemical weapons attack was launched. it looks like the trumpet ministration took steps to avoid unnecessary casualties judg...

Planes to drop those bombs filled with nerve agents on civilians, women and children being killed, those horrific pictures we saw, that would be the limited option. that would send a signal to assad and to the world that trump is serious and willing to use military force. there will be a more extensive option. the military always gives a president options to choose from. that would be to take out of the chemical capability, the delivery systems, the airfields, the helicopters, the barrel bombs, ...

Called meeting on what may be happening by all accounts. the president has not yet made the final decision. defense secretary mattis briefing him at mar-a-lago. theres a couple of logical military options that the pentagon has long had in hand. there could be a very limited strike. perhaps against the airfields where the planes launched from that dropped those bombs, killing so many people in such a horrific atrocity. so you could take out the airfield. but thats very limited. thats not going to...

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Gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. jesse: welcome to watters world, im jessie watters. taking military action against the baby killers in syria is the most critical move of president trumps presidency so far. the chemical attack happened tuesday, and thursday evening the united states launched nearly five dozen tomahawk missiles at the airfields that assad used to carry out the attack. the decisive action was widely supported by...

Would not have to deal with missile defense. take it right off the issue. we would not have to have any air to air confrontation, take that confrontation off the tabl table. its a pretty clean operation. we could actually take down all six airfields because of our capability, bret, and one night. whether we do that remains to be seen. the one where the policy goes from there, we do have u.s. special operators on the ground in syria, both to the south and north of raqqa. that has to factor in. >>...