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Paperwork was laid out for him. there it is. >> thank you for getting that up there. as he finished signing the last of those. at that moment he became justice gorsuch. so the swearing in with his hand up and his wife holding the bible and chief justice roberts there ceremonial only. i dont want to take luster this. thats the legal moment when he signs the oath. >> shannon: he has to do the judicial oath with justice kennedy. the former clerk and boss to serve at the same time on the supreme cou...

Thadd missile defense system there. heres the third and probably the decisive reason -- we dont need them. we have approximately 2,000 nuclear weapons that we can deliver on target with exquisite accuracy any time we want. we have submarine launch ballistic missiles that can hit north korea within 12 minutes of a decision to do so. b-52s that could do it in hours. f-16s stationed in the united states that could do it in a matter of a day or two or before were deployed to do it even sooner. so th...

The law. >> and the idea of killing jong un, this is the 11th hour on friday. >> first of all, it would be a violation of our current law to assassinate a head of state. internal attacks in north korea with special operation forces sound like utter nonsense. i dont think in this case you can bluff with military power. you can signal was military power. and if youre going to use military measures against north korea you better write down your objective and ethe side what youre trying to achieve. ...

There, the strikes there were happening on that syrian airfield. what do you think president xi gleaned from president trumps decision to strike syria in the context of the president saying that if china doesnt take care of north korea, we will. this now is not just bluster i guess. >> absolutely. i think the chinese like everybody will be concerned by the potential unpredictability of trump and i think the americans will be pleased that in a sense the military option is put on the table because...

Its change. do we want assad in, do we want him out? theres going to be expectation from others for us to do more because of the humanitarian issues. its hard to tell how it unfolds. i think tonys right, what were hearing from the russians is bluster. but nunt putin likes havingnomies, and its good for him to do a laurt of bluster. and so that may not wend with just words. so thats one piece. with the russians saying this uncomfortable alliance we have in fighting isis and syria may now be detea...

Pleased with the way the attack was carried out, praising the performance of the military among members of his staff and as well, very happy with the global response to this, which many of americas allies and most of the arab countries of region offering words for support for the action taken in syria. >> shepard: john, one country not supporting this is russia. what is happening with that relationship? >> as jennifer griffin mentioned, this deaconfliction line will be taken down. and despite al...

Russia. theyre not obvious. >> this russian bluster, how do you read it? >> well, i think the russians will vet nor awhile. for vladimir putin, weve been beating him up for violations of international law. for example, hes used the seizure and annexation of crimea as justifiable because it was russian for so many centuries. but we get on our high horse and blame him for the worst crisis in europe since world war ii and we dont get a u.n. resolution to invade iraq and we invade libya. so he is go...

>> glad to be here, shep. >> shepard: a couple things. this russian ship, the russian destroyer on the move toward our ships, what are we to make of that? and the bluster from vladimir putin and his spokespeople? >> well, first of all, the russian ship is staying in international waters. has a right to be there. i dont think our military leaders are all that concerned about it. russia does not want to go to war with the united states. russia has been pounding our proxies inside of syria, the syr...

Regime of bashar al assad? >> either one side wins and thats not likely to happen in syria because as soon as one gets advantage the outside comes in and tries to take over things. second, the partys fight to exhaustion, that could happen. finally theres some outside intervention, either military or one of the two. whether he can leverage the action to try finally to get others onboard to move this, the civil war to a better place. and there may be an opening here. theres a lot of bluster from t...

Tool they can choose that turns the court perpetual warfare who can pack the court the most and loses its legitimacy in the united states as a team of fair jurists that call the balls and strikes. its already lost a lot of its luster but this will put it in a whole new category. >> if this goes as people expect it to go this week and what youre describing comes to pass, in a hypothetical situation where the democrats take the senate majority in midterm elections. i realize structurally that woul...