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Climate deal. to say he is somehow going to -- >> jesse: a deal isnt good just because its a deal, juan. sometimes deals are bad enough to get out of it. >> juan: i dont think those are bad deals. >> jesse: a lot of other americans do. >> juan: the deal as the american people, that was our government and you can say i show up and im a great deal maker, so im going to bluster my way through. i think a lot of people say its exactly what did pompeo get from his visit? whats the news out of the visi...

Somebody else, namely trump or somebody more valuable to them. do you think theres any chance that michael cohen would go bad on donald trump? >> based on what we know about cohen, i would be shocked. i do not think the bluster of it being more likely than sun coming up is credible. cohens identity is rapped up in being a fixer and enforcer for donald trump. so it would be shocking if he flipped. sit impossible? no. the fact this is the southern district of new york for doing a criminal investig...

Already been removed. so not sure that trump administration made anyone happy with this attack. neither the humanitarian intervention folks who want to see the civil war end and want a stronger u.s. presence there and engagement. he didnt keep happy the america first people who want to see the united states retreating from the rest of the world and not trying to police whats happening in syria. >> kevin, russia and iran spoke by phone yesterday and reaffirmed their alliance with syria. does that...

Morning and go, hello, mr. future president. that doesnt mean there are 535 commanders in chief. the president was right to act without congress consent yesterday. if we go to put 100 to 200,000 troops in syria or go to war, he absolutely needs to come to congress for that. >> do you think these strikes will have a different result than the one last year? >> i think the one last year was effective. we saw basically the regime think twice about using sarin until recently. and so hopefully they ar...

That after this, president macron will be picking up the phone or will continue to have that dialogue and president trump is out lining, the diplomacy shall continue but over the last few days weve just had pushback and bluster and denial and told they are responsibility forr -- for ensue that bashar al assad got rid of the chemical weapons and it is pushed back if you target syria, you are endangering the stability not just of the region but of the world. so nothing official yet. but the opposi...

Within the ranks org youve got the president using typical bluster whereas mattis and others are saying no, were going to keep this under control. thats the conflict. the chaos in the white house extends beyond just the day-to-to day sla lashs scandals but also through defense policy. >> with, peter, if i go back to you on this, oh, of course, theres a political imperative for donald trump to intervene to establish a firm red line whether he it cops to the use of chemical weapons and thats somet...

Whats happening in syria remain the same. getting back to your reporters, that seems clear simply by at least assads stroll through syria to say that not much has changed. whether internally he thinks, okay, i wont use a weaponry, that remains to be seen. theres not huge shifts in the status quo in syria. >> as nic mentioned, one of the concerns was not to provoke russia to escalate the concerns on the ground in syria. the russian ambassador to the u.s. tweeted this out after the strikes -- "we ...

U.s., we now have images of that pair of air force b-1 bombers that flew from qatar under fighter escort and launched 19 stand-off missiles. russian and syrian state media claim they shot down dozens of the allied missiles, but the pentagon says the russian guns remain silent, adding syria fired 40 surface-to-air missiles wildly into the air after the u.s. missiles had already hit their targets. >> syrian response was remarkably ineffective in all domains. probably the best answer i can give you...

Silent. 40 surface missiles wildly into the air after missiles had landed. >> the response was remarkably in effective in all domains, thats probably the best answer i can give you. they had no material impact on the strike. >> as secretary mattis said last night, the russians disinformation campaign has already begun. there has been a 2,000% increase in russian trolls in the last 24 hours. >> in other words, the russian disinformation campaign has ramped up in the wake of last nights strike acc...

And not messing around? >> there is part of the head game, they say nothing happened and we are saying we are here to stay but at the end of the data is important to take out these sites to store the precursor chemical where they might be launching airstrikes from. and long-term capabilities, it is a combined effort. we wont take it anymore and going to respond and a sustained campaign. if we need to do it again we will. jackie: what will we see in coming days? >> they dont like what we are doin...