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This appears to be a sirin attack and the result of the bashar regime and the president trump is saying that the weakness on the side of obama administration led to the attack. rex tillerson last month said it was up to the syrian people to pick their leaders and removing bashar al assad was not necessarily a priority. is the white house now being hip critical, and blaming obama for the occurrences today. >> the white house is being hypocritical and their policy has been all over the map, giving...

All sanctions will have to be lifted immediately. this is an odd way to prepare your public for deal. that is not going to happen. what is going on inside iran? >> i think this is a difficult time for irans supreme leader because he has to resolve the prerogatives of the islamic republic which is based on resistance against the united states with the economic needs of the nation. this is a country that is experiencing a perfect storm economically. they are losing hundreds of billions of dollars ...

To give his own decision, although as you point out, there isnt really a hard and fast time line on any of this. >> right. well, well see what he does. >> yep. >> thank you. lots at stake. gloria borger with us. some of the hardest-hit areas are the syrian refugee camps. the crisis in syria is clearly growing and children are so impacted. now a young activist is trying to make the situation just a little better in one refugee camp along the border with syria. my conversation with the pakistani...

That pay back could come some day. literally, three decades have been spent by assad father and son developing a security military and intelligence apparatus that could with stand an up raising, if it came. it isnt syria -- it isnt egypt. it isnt libya. its syria, and it is a much tougher proposition. >> and to that idea, fran, limited strikes against a regime like this, which has murdered its own people for decades and has its back against the wall, i mean, some equated to poking a tiger we are...

Commander, let me start with you, after todays testimony do you have a sense of what a military operation would look like, about what the targets would be, about what the impact would be? do you think administration has a really firm grasp on that? >> i think they have a firm grasp on what they want to achieve however when they go in for a strike taking out hopefully the facilities that would allow the assad regime to make chemical attacks. the regime gets a vote whether or not they choose to re...

10,000 innocent civilians as he went after the syrian muslim brotherhood by destroying the center of syrias fourth largest city. two things came out of that. first, a deep sense of bitterness and hatrid and i think led to an under ground radicalization which is why we have currents in opposition and the second, a regime that knew that pay back could come some day. literally, three decades have been spent by assad father and son developing a security military and intelligence apparatus that could...

Secretary clinton and secretary clinton was a theorist in how bad the opposition was and that we didnt want to be partners of al qaeda. we have to have faith in the syrian people and if youre going to do these strikes, you have to trust in the ambiguity what will happen later. in truth, they really dont know what will happen. >> no one does. >> absolutely not. in a way, if you strike at the bashar regime, you could be lucky, there could be luckiness that it will take out the head of the state, t...

A week during the congressional recess so they have been going. the staff is hard at work. ive been told they have not works a plan to interview some of the most senior officials dealing with the tax exempt issue. this is definitely going on, even though we dont exactly think it will end up where some thought it would be, in terms of it being political we expect a report out of the committee as to what happened sometime this year. >> thank you very much. well have much more as our series continu...

Against military enter veinterv. i want peace. i still want peace. i see a peace process through geneva two, i dont know whether that will happen or not but limited strike, i know the propaganda of the regime. they will use all -- every possible word and they will dance in the streets. >> do you really believe a political solution that negotiations are possible at this stage given all thats happened and the nature of the regime and opposition at this point? >> it is difficult to see. thats why i...

>> so even if there is a -- if the strike is limited as is being debated right now, not something thats going to change the calculous on the ground, change the power of the regime, it not going to tip the scales, its just a design to punish, its a design to try to make sure that the regime does not use chemical weapons again, you think that will be interpreted as a victory, the regime will spin that as a victory? >> this regime is criminal. this regime has been using chemical weapons for at leas...