the only thing i respect about comey. everything else is a renegade narcissist who is still a, and s well, above the law. they get to do whatever they want to do to protect themselves and what he was doing is protecting his political rear end with the republicans because he thought the hillary clinton was going to get elected. lanny thank you very much. still coming up. where is melania, the first lady has only been on one magazine cover since taking office. are editors turning a blind eye? and david bossie on comey, syria, there he is, much more coming up. of green mountain coffee roasters sumatra reserve. let s go to sumatra.
world. messaging matters a lot. watching nikki haley, i think she s done a great job, reminding america and reminding the world that we are locked and loaded. a lot of people are concerned where this goes. was this enough to pressure ba sar alassad. are we going to see another chemical attack a year from now. if we do, with will react and potentially do more. reaction in congress as you can predict has been all over the map to the president s decision. here s three examples. chuck schumer democrat from new york called the strikes in syria appropriate but dot dot dot be careful. lind si graham fearing lit be seen as a weak military response. and another one calling it unconstitutional, illegal and reckless. had he gotten congressional approval, where would that have led to. tell me how he would have gotten congressional approval on
saying, president trump deserves credit in working with our allies in ordering this strike against assad but when the dust settles this will be seen as a weak military response and assad would have paid a small price for using chemical weapons again. senator bill nelson saying, a democrat, i support the attack because assad must be held accountable for the use of chemical weapons. i ve read ours and nowhere is it is presidential authority to strike syria. lindsey graham is a thoughtful guy on a lot of levels. he wants regime change. so you don t want to go that far. open then bill nelson is running for reelection in florida. he wants to be seen as
sights in syria punishing the assad regime for the chemical weapons attack on its own people people. here to react this morning we re going to bring in heather nowart nowart. heather, good morning. thanks for being here. first of all, the latest message from the state department on these strikes in syria. well, syria and russia can become responsible members of society. syria can first and foremost avoid further action on the part of the u.s. and its allies by declaring and getting rid of its stockpiles of chemical weapons. we have watched and seen for far too long as bashar al-assad has continued to use chemical weapons on his own people, 500,000 now have been killed since this war started. pete: heather, the previous administration said 100 percent that they d gotten rid of it, the chemicals were out, that russia had helped them do so. did that never happen or russia was supposed to help them do that. russia and syria, by the way,
situation we re dealing with. and president trump having to find the balance. what is the best advice you have for the president understanding this situation. he s made it clear he wants to work with russia because there are important issues that we need them on, north korea or syria, for example, but at the same time they continue to lie through their teeth. all of the bombs in the world are not going to solve the syrian civil war. syria is a destroyed country. there are millions of refugees displayed within syria. the casualties are so bad that different international monitoring groups have given up trying to figure out what the casualty count is. what the united states needs to do is work with russia, iran, anybody what would be willing to sit down with us and figure out a way to end the civil war. this is a cancer among the middle eetion and disstabilizing the region. countries have more refugees in their population than their citizenry. there is a challenge that we need to figur