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In striking range as well. >> harris: im taking a list of all the things he said that our firepower. the list has gotten long. jennifer griffin, thank you very much. we appreciated. republican congressman martha mcsally, a veteran of our military. she had the opportunity to question defense secretary mattis during that hearing a couple of hours ago. great to have you on board. news is cooking along. we are monitoring that meeting. mike pompeo, secretary of state, lets talk about this with syria....

To include plus other diplomatic means in order to adjust this issues. they are working through that decision-making process. its very important we identify what our objectives are. i think secretary mattis spoke on that today. we identify them and carrying them out while realizing, look, president trump inherited a mess in syria from the failures of the last administration. if you remember. chemical weapons were gone. its a mess. nothing needs to be done. >> harris: our time is so tight. we loo...

Over the course of the last year. and so this is a wide ranging if we talk about the special counsels office and now if there are any other spinoffs, this is obviously a wide ranging started as a national security investigation, now a large criminal investigation that is going in various directions and the individuals, whether or not they are now republican nominees who are involved in the decision making process, have long experience in the justice department and it really does seem that they a...

He said trumps lawyer not having a good day. what if they ended the investigation without putting trump under oath? >> just walking into a trap is not complicated to figure out. how dare we apply logical decisions or tweets on the presidents decision-making process. he said he wants to testify. presumably he feels he has nothing to hide. past lawyers have been concerned that he could move from subject to target based on on ambling around and creating

>> he replaces another relative hawk on syria, h.r. mcmaster and president trump in addition to speaking yesterday with the president of france and the prime minister of iraq is meeting this evening with military leaders so there will certainly be several voices weighing into his decision making. one thing that is unclear is whether thats going to be much difference of opinion. the united states generally blames assad when chemical weapons are disbursed but there is -- after the 2013 chemical we...

Including children were killed when forces dropped chemical laced barrel bombs on rebel held city of douma. president trump is tweeting about the alleged attack saying president putin, russia and iran are responsible for backing animal assad adding big price to pay. joining me now is steve clemens, editor at large of the atlantic. steve, im guessing youre going to agree this is escalating quickly into a were of words. >> its also a war weve seen before and this is one of the issues that has anim...

Tell me more about that. >> dana: the president speaks his mind pretty much all the time. and so he says things before the actual formalization of a decision making process has gone through is kind of what were used to. so hell throw something out there like, i think we should pull out of syria. well, that hasnt been discussed recently because the current policy is to stay. so that spins up the pentagon quite a bit because theyve got to take a look at the options. what is their position on somet...

And theyre pouring millions and billions of dollars into this high-tech weaponry. whats it for? their economy is really not doing well enough to support this. and it locks like were entering into another arms race. >> colonel francona, thank you very much on that. brian, to you on the presidents syria remarks yesterday in ohio. a lot of these senior aides are like, what? theyre puzzled over what he meant by that. do you even know what he meant by that? >> nobody knows what he means by that. its ...

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President clinton left office with a 60% approval rating, which was huge. on the stormy daniels issue, its not good for the country. voters will vote on their own economic situation, on healthcare, on, you know, immigration, on national security, on north korea. you know, these scandals, they have some legs, but they dont have a finite decision-making process in the voters mind. >> what youre saying, too, for clinton, his highest approval ratings were during impeachment. we saw on another networ...