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So in terms of military action, the president obviously will listen to his commanders. he will have a wide range of options. those options dont have to include trying to change the regime in syria immediately or establish a constitutional democracy there. they could be something along the lines of what president reagan did in 1986 in libya after gadhafis terrorist forces bombed a nightclub american service members frequent. we truck barracks, air fields, command and control centers. theres no la...

With saddam, gaddafi and assad. they kept uncomfortable stability there. that was candidate trump. he seems like hes changed on this specific issue. do you think -- what do you hear, is he ready for the long haul on syria? >> i think hes had his eyes opened a little bit by the images. he does respond to pictures and images. he recognizes how awful this is. sd explicit in the rose garden yesterday, my feelings on this have changed. my position has changed. he bragged about being flexible. remembe...

Successful enough to ground the assad air force and really weaken assad. then what? that has always been the conundrum. right? then what? >> i think then you establish the safe zone. you arm and train and equip the free syrian army. you do not stop your efforts to retake raqqah. you can do two things at once and we have to obviously try to hold people responsible. both bashar al assad and vladimir putin. >> and are we going to be in the ilng effort of syria? >> we have to, chuck. look at what ha...

We know from the campaign comments of donald trump, thats what he wanted in syria. he wanted the u.s. and russia to basically ally, standing down on assad. it means, worryingly, accepting irans very much enhanced role in syria for the indefinite future and basically accepting that the country is going to be areas where we have allies in the southeast, in the area around liberated raqqa. thats where syria is heading. >> what are the alternatives? what would be the alternatives to assad? obama sai...

They wiped out gadhafi. >> david, i saw something and maybe its nuance but i saw something in what the secretary said. he didnt say we will have the military option if they attack, if they do this. he said if they expand their program, their weapons, missile program and nuclear program beyond a certain level, we will take military action, it seemed it was hinting at preemption. >> he was moving into the preemption world which is a phrase we last heard during the bush administration, and thats wh...

The sort of new gadhafi if you will, theyve had him in moscow now. maybe going to help him retake the whole country. just tonight, were learning the russians have put troops over the border, even into western egypt. to me, all of this just underscores that while were pursuing an investigation, and a big fight about what members of the administration did or didnt say, were not doing russian policy. we dont have an effective dialogue with the russians. >> are you saying, wait, look over there? whe...

>> the estate is really critical as you point out. whether we can achieve political unity after we throw out cases remains to be seen. leland: history tell us every time we try to effect regime change in the middle east, whether it needs in afghanistan, an absolute mess, blood and fortune there, blood and treasure in iraq try to have political stability there. complete mess still to this day, especially with iran meddling. think about what is happening in yemen in libya. but another great track ...

Iraq too soon. we begged him to leave troops. when you draw a line, you better enforce it. all hell was broken loose. to president trump, if you destroy soft power, the diplomatic tools that lead to holding and building, we will never win this war. if you take off the table building a small school house for a poor young girl in afghanistan, iraq and syria, we will never win this war. an education to a poor young girl is far more damaging to radical islam than any bomb. that has to be off the tab...

Someone chipped off all their dicks, not that i was looking. anywhere else in the world, this place would be overrun with tourists. but look, no one. youre free to wander as you wish. quite a backdrop, you know? youre seeing a little dinner theater production of "our town" a couple of thousand years ago. not bad. the only other visitors today are a troop of libyan boy scouts. bizarrely enough, gadhafi himself was once a scout and this was one of the only organizations allowed to remain independe...

Want to go, others may not want to go. >> no, they have a choice. i think that theres a right choice and a wrong choice, but im pro-choice in this case. i think theres some hypocrisy here in the entertainment/celebrity community. jennifer lopez saying, happy birthday to the dictator of turkmenistan. beyonce performed for gadhafis son at a new years eve party years ago and somehow the duly elected next president of the united states is somehow beneath these hollywood elites from actually going an...