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Rogue states that were as a country not going to tolerate your chemicals of mass destruction and weapons programs that can do harm not only to your own people but ultimately to america. >> shannon: julie, you talked about the fact you want to hear a long-term message on what well do with regard to the region? senior white house officials said dont expect this president to spell out things in advance. he criticized the obama administration for taking away the element of surprise. >> the obama adm...

5-3. a scary moment in san francisco after the giants buster posey beaned by a 84-mile-an-hour fastball thrown by arizonas taiwi walker. he will likely sit out tonights contest. as for the games, busted open with a bases loaded scoreless third inning. >> now the pitch and a curve is dribbled, tries to field it. bobbles and thrown away. crawford scores. panik scores. walker, racing for the plate walker, he slides and score. >> the diamondbacks out there looking like a little league giving up a ...

Investigation. why? so that they have time to sort of, if there are tracks to be covered, cover those tracks but maybe figure out themselves what happens. i tend to think from the beginning of this thing this is assad kicking sand in putins face. why? because he can. he can and he did. if putin backs off and says assad, you have to go, whats putins leverage with assad, right? assad knows hes at the end of his rope and he is going to do whatever he has to to survive. there is a dance going on as ...

Defeated in mosul and raqqa, are you contemplating maintaining u.s. bases or u.s. base in iraqi kurdistan to check any further resurgence of an isis like group? >> the short answer is we are in consultations with the iraqi government about what the stabilation phase looks like. there have been no decisions, no offers made either way. were in consultation and talking about what the tactical situation will probably look like and you can tell that some of that would be assumptions since we have an ...

Some point a response is likely to be undertaken. >> shannon: that sounds like a warning to people not in the region, people in that region but beyond that as well like north korea. >> exactly. it is next to impossible that the russians, the air base were unaware of the serin attack, before, during ar after and russia would guarantee that assads chemical weapons were destroyed. putin has egg all over himself and knows he cannot afford to abandon assad and risk losing access to those bases. >> sh...

Will respond under those matters? if see, are we drawn into their civil war? >> we have not seen that. weve seen critics coming out saying what about the hundreds of thousands of people that have been killed with conventional munitions, buried alive in their homes, forced from their homes, millions of people. this does nothing to address that either. seems like the administration was trying to draw a distinction between its policy and the obama administrations policy when president obama drew a ...

Like this. its inexplicable to thinking what on earth they could be doing. that all led to the response by the united states and president trump ordering the strike on syrias chemical we pops and obviously some bases and other materials inside that country. heres what sean spicer had to say about russia and that particular attack. >> i think that if you look at the countries that are with us, it speaks loudly the number of countries that have stood shoulder to shoulder with this president. russi...

It could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. telling them that there are no chemical weapons all the while stockpiling them on their bases. the world is waiting for the russian government to act responsibility the world is waiting for russia to reconsider misplaced alliance with bashar al-assad. >> turned compassionate supporters into critics. accused of breaking proposition to k...

Ing there. chris, let me go to you. lets just begin with the crux of the briefing was back and forth on syria and the white houses decision to go in a couple days ago. . but the questions continued to pepper sean spicer as far as the future of bashar al assad. did you hear a definitive answer? >> no, and i think the answer to that is because there isnt one, they dont have one. one may not exist. this is a complex situation. this is not donald trump. barack obama struggle d with th same thing. se...

>> you do. we know that russia is using syria as a strategic airfield, strategic military operating base. thats their interest there. we know theyre doing that. maybe they are complicit. maybe they arent willing to do anything about it. thats something that tillerson needs to understand and they need to understand also that if you store your planes and your resources at syrian bases that are harboring chemical weapons you run the risk of getting them destroyed. >> bill: carl higbie, thank you. s...