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Maintain his foothold in the white house. a source tells cnn presidents trump tepid endorsement for bannon is warning that hes grown tired with infighting among his staff. questions are growing after the body of a new york state court of appeals judge washed up on a shore a day after she was reported missing. police say there was no obvious signs of trauma. she was the first black woman and first muslim to sitting the states highest court. the governor andrew cuomo calling her a quote trail bl...

Administration and obama administration as it left office was looking at very closely about gaining a foot hohold the. it also sends a message to al qaeda and the taliban about president trumps resolve, i think, but it also just sends a signal that the eye is still on isis and no matter where they are, look, it was in afghanistan but it could be in libya tomorrow where isis is gaining a foothold in these areas that youre not hearing a lot about it from this administration but they are keeping an...

To get back to the influence of notion. once the u.s. says, okay, you win, you get all of eastern europe. you get all the stuff that you want in your backyard. and we wont have anything to do with you. so go ahead and keep crimea and eastern ukraine and continue to mess around in that area. and by the way, you want a foothold for the first time for 40 years in the middle east? okay, keep syria. thats the problem right now. that it is this sort of war for influence that moscow under president put...

Lackluster. not that exciting. you have democrats who are quite engaged. i understand why theyre engaged right now, but do you think theyre able to maintain that level of engagement and exci excitement over the next 18 months. >> thats the million dollar question democrats will try to figure out. these special elections should be learning opportunities. the democratic party, i would argue, got kansas wrong, right? the dnc money just went in yesterday. where as in we should have been playing here...

They give russia a foothold. through the airpower, through the alignment of hezbollah and they want to keep that. i dont think that will be a winning hand for the administration. but i think the russians over the long term cannot and will not want to sustain the pace of the military involvement. so secretary tillersons task is to try to align with the turks to push the russians toward a genuine negotiation, but that could be months if not years in the making. >> and the syrian foreign minister i...

Successful. russia in syria, largest military deployment in decades and theyve managed to regain their foothold in the middle east. vladimir putin will not want to let go of that. >> paula newton, live from ms. cow. thank you very much. were getting a look at how americans feel about president trumps strategy in syria. new cbs poll show 57% approve of last weeks strikes on the syrian air base with 36% disapproving. most americans are cautious about any future action from here. only 18% want th...

We managed to accomplish that goal more thoroughly than we could have by some limited strikes against chemical targets by getting the entirety of the declared stockpile removed. >> shannon: she talks about the declared stockpile and known weapons. technically she was right. what they knew about and what was cat logged was allegedly turned over and done away with. there were gaps and discrepancies about what syria did or didnt have. she was technically right. >> what weve seen with the obama fore...

>> good afternoon. >> gina, how do you respond from what we just heard from senator graham. in your opinion is that an accurate comparison to make? >> i do think that that was -- its not often that senator graham and i agree, but i do feel like that was a very appropriate response. i think that the president saw what happened to those children and evidently the things that we had heard from the obama administration about assad not having chemical weapons isnt true. the president acted swiftly an...

King of jordan. the president general el-sisi of egypt, the crown prince and of course the israeli prime minister joining and creating a new coalition here. it seemed that because of all the news that the relationship has changed dramatically. especially with children of the egypt now that we have a new president, what impact do you think that has? >> dramatically, i interviewed president el-sisi just the other night from egypt, he talks extensively about feeling confident that he can work and a...

What is your overall perception of russia in the region? i know youve had some interaction with russia and vladimir putin. >> i always said when there is a vacuum, i insist on calling it extreme groups. who brought the element and extremist groups from all over the world and made them available in syria? who did that? did the syrian regime do it? we have to speak in clear terms. and we have to speak as one as we confront terrorism. >> bret: do you think russia is doing that? >> russia has intere...