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To be asking about this and anybody who does -- i am a living example -- is shouted down and called a tool is putin. itss a insane. >> i applaud you for feeling the umbrage -- >> tucker: im attacked all the time. i i dont care. i care about when and where we commit american troops. i have a son who is 21. its not a joke. >> its not a question of committing troops, sure, there will be troops. we are talking about degrading their air force, degrading the helicopters, doing something we didnt do --...

So it undermines, i think, the threat of american diplomacy. secondly, it sends a message that he wont attack putin. he wont take putin on. he loves putin. hes unoverwhelmed by putin. this is an opportunity for him to say, you meddled in our election. you shouldnt do that. lets work together on syria, on getting assad out and onnize to maybe find a way to help on north korea because russia can help us a little bit. they are on the border with north korea and and instead, you know, we get sidetra...

Threat of american diplomacy. secondly, it sends a message that he wont attack putin. he wont take putin on. he loves putin. hes unover wewhelmed by putin. this is an opportunity for him to say, you meddled in our election. you shouldnt do that. lets work together on syria, on getting assad out and onnize to maybe find a way to help on north korea because russia can help us a little bit. they are on the border with north korea and and instead, you know, we get sidetracked by this love affair tha...

>> first of all, youve got russia holding their hand. so its not as easy as saying were going to go and take assad out. youve got russia holding their hand. basically allow thg to happen. youve got iran supporting the situation. >> haley says now that the u.s. has destroyed isis and syria, the u.s. has its eye on assad. >> were not done. this is still playing out. this is all still happening. >> so you see u.s. actions that could effectively push assad out. >> i think you can, its not that we ar...

>> beforethe chemicalattackwe heard from the secretary of state, the u.n. ambassador that essentially the u.s. was okay with assad being in power, that they were going as nikki haley say sit here and focus on getting assad out. after the attack we heard from the secretary of state that there were moments under way to remove him. last night the white house would not say whether or not they were trying to remove assad. why cant they get on one page here? >> there will be another round of statemen...

In that country began to escalate, culminating with that apparent gas attack on tuesday and into wednesday. a lot of people in the administration look at this and said, did bashar al- assad take what was said by nikki haley, the group of reporters, as a green light for assad to start attacking his people with impunity? just to remind you of what it was that ambassador haley said, she said "you pick and choose your battles and when we are looking at this, it is about changing up priorities. in ou...

Times we are compelled to take our own action. >> reporter: a starkly different tone from her comments days ago when she told reporters our priorities is no longer to focus on getting assad out. those comments and others from secretary of state rex tillerson prompt bipartisan rebuke. >> the remarks we are no longer going to go after assad as one of our major policies, i believe caused assad to do what he did. >> i dont think it is a c coincidence that we see this. >> how many more children have ...

Involved with syria. i would say stay out. >> reporter: and fought for a ban on syrian refugees. >> im putting people on notice that are coming from syria as part of the mass migration. if i win, theyre going back. >> reporter: united nations ambassador nikki haley warning the u.s. may take unilateral action whether others dont respond. >> when the united nations doesnt act in its duties, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action. >> reporter: a starkly d...

Tillerson said, nikki haley said our priority is no longer to sit and focus on getting assad out. >> well, the united states of america is known to help people who want freedom and democracy. none of us are arguing for american troops on the ground there to fight against bashar al assad. but we certainly believe we can fight isis and help people struggling against one of the great brutal dictators in history, bashar assad and his minions. there was a story about the torture of thousands and thou...

Power. >> let there be no mistake just so we can be clear. it is no space between turkey and the united states and our commitment to defeat isis. not just in syria, and iraq, but as members of the greater coalition to defeat desh anywhere they show their face on planet earth they will be confronted by the coalition to defeat them. the status and the longer term status president assad will be decided by the syrian people. >> the echo, that is across the pond over in turkey, here in new york nikki...