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We are covering the israelhamas war. Were Tracking Developments late today as republicans are scrambling to agree on any replacement for ousted House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. We have a report on that and all its implications later in the newscast. Today u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was in israel for meetings with prime Minster Netanyahu as troop amass at the border. Amidst blinkens trip, the Israeli Government today released new graphic Photo Evidence of the mass atrocities. Israel say...

Friction there right now. president trump is arguably been very tough on russia in his actions. >> i would say theres plenty of republicans in the senate that would be critical, lisa. this is -- i think republicans in the senate will give the president leverage on things like north korea, on afghanistan and syria and getting that right. i think the republican senators will continue to hold this administrations feet to the fire on russia. >> do you not think hes been tough on russian? >> publicly...

>> so you did like it? >> yeah. but thats not the question. the question is do large doses of fire power fix a strategic problem and that really is where i think we come up short. >> if you can here, major general, what should we do next militarily? >> i think were pretty much done militarily. theres only one footprint we have left in syria, in eastern syria around the euphrates river, 2,000 americans buttressed by kurds who basically control syrias access to their own oil fields. i think being ...

A perpetual occurrence of these kinds of attacks. with russia, we need to get tough. the president has spent a year, year and a half allowing russia to essentially run the playing field in syria and elsewhere. he spent that amount of time essentially undermining our strong deterrents against iran with the nuclear deal. right now easteiran and russia control syria on the ground, much of it. were there in a small footprint. imagine if youre a soldier there asking, what policy am i being asked to d...

Powers that control syrias fate finally found mercy. the un security down cell passed a 30-day cease fire. while perhaps it might allow these children to breathe fresh air, it isis on a grizzly repea. a mother bids her son good-bye. shes already been through this. say hi to your brother she tells his bloodied corpse. tell him you died the same way he did. the civil defense team posted this video to twitter, begging people to try to put themselves in the shoes of the father whose son they are loo...

Most spend their time underground. >> childhood is not evening a reflection of o ever what it should be. and their giggles reverberate. play games familiar to most of us under circumstances we not pretend to imagine. >> we wish for aide for help here. were hungry. let them understand this, this little girl pleads. in another reality and what may be what may be a world away, its not that anyone heard her cry, its the powers that control syrias fate portrayed it. this is syrias story. one that is ...

Disruptive kind of movement by people who are trying to, i assume, disrupt president trump ability to engage leaders there. i think in many ways its counterproductive. we got serious issues to address. best thing for the president to do is to get in and meet with the leaders and get some policy moving to kind of over take the messaging of this crowd. its sad that europe focus this much on protesting the peaceful meeting of leaders. >> one of those real challenges is syria of course. the presiden...

Military strikes in syria, at least arguing, you know, perhaps a wait and see. many on the right outside the administration have also been against this policy. others have been advising him to go forward. wolf, i think that explains many could of the confusion here that were seeing this evening about what the presidents red line is, what it isnt. its one of the central reasons members of congress are sayingy that want to ear a serious strategy from this administration. >> jeff, change you. jeff ...

Enough to win the fight. >> and you blame the obama administration? >> i blame the obama administration. >> they were derelict in their responsibility. >> they had a policy in syria that did not work in part becausy in prolonged the conflict by putting just enough military support in to keep it going. >> but you agree bashar al assad is a butcher? >> hes a butcher and deserves everything that he get and ultimately its one of the wreens why the united states should at the very least have a policy...

The white house says more u.s. military action against syria is possible as president trump weighs his next move, and top administration officials send mixed messages on whether the dictator, bashar al assad, has to go. were back with democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, a member of the foreign relations committee. the white house secretary sean spicer said and im quoting article 2 of the constitution is pretty clear when it comes to the national interests of the country that the pres...