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Put america first. >> i want to help all of our allies. but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. we cannot be the policemen of the world. >> but as commander-in-chief, trump acknowledged images of last weeks gas attacks in syria add deep impact. >> i now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. >> in the span of a week trump has also changed his mind on the nato alliance. now viewing it as a tool to counter russian aggression in europe. >> i s...

Will ripley, thank you for the reporting. >> all right, joining us now, democratic congressman elliott engle, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. i want to shift gears back from north korea to syria, because the breaking news this morning is our first look from the syrian leader bashar al assad, where he calls the notion that he staged a chemical attack against his own people a 100% fabrication, and he talked about the pictures...

>> our priority remains the defeat of isis. isis represents a clear and present danger and immediate threat to europe and ultimately a threat to the united states homeland. the syrian regime should think long and hard before it again acts so recklessly in violation of international law against the use of chemical weapons. >> bill: he was stern yesterday. benjamin hall in turkey near the syrian border with more. benjamin. >> a strange calm seems to have come over syria since the major events last...

Inconsistent from the campaign until now. >> arent you giving me the definition of the ultimately unsophisticated person? >> i mean this is the problem. he didnt understand how hard foreign policy was. he didnt understand how hard health care was. he keeps saying things like nobody knew how hard health care was. actually, we all knew that. nobody knew how hard controlling north korea was. we did actually know that. so hes suddenly finding out all these things. but he said, i alone can fix it. he...

U.s. go from here as far as drawing additional red lines if theres another chemical weapons attack or if there are more barrel bomb attacks that, you know, these brutal attacks that kill a lot of civilians. should the u.s. be prepared to step up its military involvement in syria? >> i think what the administration is looking at is a response to the gas attacks and theres bipartisan support for a measured appropriate response to a given attack using gas. either through a barely bom or some other ...

Russians would not see it in their interest to have the syrians firing off chemical weapons, gas attacks against civilians because it was putin that made the deal in 2013 that syria would give up all of their chemical weapons and they cheated on that agreement and there is speculation that the russians made have understood what the syrians were doing. so i dont think that the russians will fall off of their support for president assad because he is the connection for the russian government. i th...

Action when he sent those 59 tomahawk missiles to destroy assads ability to use chemical weapons against his own people. i wanted to ask your initial thoughts, and also about these questions about, did the president have legal authority to do that? sean spicer in the briefing was explaining that he believes he does under article ii, and yet you have other members of congress saying, hold on a second, we dont think thats right and maybe you have to come to congress if you want to take any further...

That some day, somehow, they will come and do something. but president obama he let us down for more than six years. until president trump showed up and he made the right decision by striking the criminal. we are very grateful. very, very grateful. clayton: i can hear it in your voice and obviously what you went through in 2013 in that gas attack, in syria arguably even more horrible than the gas attacks we saw over the past 72 hours and this week and, yet, there was no help that came. if you lo...

Attack and one that we shouldve conducted when the gas attacks have been almost four years ago. secondly, its a very important signaling exercise for the trumpet ministration to distinguish itself to our adversaries from the obama in ministration to put putin, the north koreans in the chinese on notice that this is a president who is not going to bring his hands and definitely before taking military action but the most important thing is this a change of policy for the nine states night states w...

Capable. this is a vessel that launched on targets before but important to note that russia fired missile from farther away. its important to call into the russian syrian base, it doesnt have to do that. russia doesnt have to send vessels there in order to project this sort of force. its what this vessel does that really counts. its a statement of russias continued willingness and continued intent to support the regime of bashar al assad to continue sending military resources into this region ev...