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Somebody thats been in elections before, the massive interference in our electoral process, wikileaks hacking the democratic national committee, obviously against hillary clinton is so blatant that it requires a response. the fact that also with syria, russia, helping iran, against all kinds of human rights interest in syria, helping assad, certifying to russia that its okay what happened with crimea and ukraine. the fact that wasnt mentioned at the outset is very troubling. maybe hes going to m...

Helping assad, deeply involved in the ukraine. they started the election tampering in the obama administration. >> right. thats the point im making. >> you say that president trump should say more in public. in public, president obama, you know, leaned across the stage and said its going to be better because ill have more leeway. he too congratulated putin. you talk about the public speaking. why is that so important versus what goes on in action? teams like talk is cheap. >> well, when obama co...

Is something that the coalition said they did not want to have happen. they said its been a very useful thing in terms of deconflicting that air space. theyve ramped up air operations in syria the past few months against isis. this has been a real area of concern. >> so, just so folks at home understand the importance of this, its basically intended so that you keep u.s. and russian air assets away from each other so they dont accidentally -- not necessarily fly into each other, but target each ...

Honor its commitment to the agreements and work to de-escalate the violence in the ukraine. >> bill: that just in from germany. marie hart, how are you doing? good morning to you there in washington what do you think they can do together? >> well, listening to what rex tillerson said it sounds like something john kerry would have said. our policy that we said many times was well work with russia when its in our interest to do so and oppose them when they invade crimea and eastern ukraine. there ...

Can get. he needs help from the americans with certain weapons and probably some advisers that are going to be going in. he needs help from the iranians because they know about how to raise shia militias against these isis militants who are sunni. theyve trained these shia militias before. they know how to get them to fight. theyre valuable to the iraqi regime too. also, sulamani is seen as being very responsible for bashar al assads regime, turning the tide of that war in syria. sulamani was th...

Did the right thing by threatening to use force against syria? >> i think it was very clear that once he had indicated that there was a red line that we would not go beyond without some kind of retaliation or some kind of effort, that there had to be in effect a follow-through on that commitment. so the president needed to do something, but gosh, helping the group thats associated in some way with al qaeda didnt look right. helping assad certainly wasnt right, so we had no good choices. thats wh...

Promoting the welfare of elephants. >> right. and we all know she does have a book coming out. in her 2008 campaign, hillary clintons stance on iraq was an issue. is her similarly hawkish stance on syria going to be a problem for her if she does, indeed, decide to run in 2016? >> no. no, its not going to be a problem. >> we thought that was going to be it -- the joe biden of msnbc. come on. >> no, seriously, were in an era of turnout elections, no middle to be fought over. the democratic base lo...

Shiite, in what was seen as a sunni-shiite conflict, or is it a thus! in the eye to the u.s.? does this man make it more likely well have to get involved? >> rohani, i dont think, will make it more likely. what i do think is the united states has committed itself to doing something very little so far. we dont know what the president is actually going to do beyond small arms. take it as a negotiation. you and i, we all know, if the president wants a negotiated settlement to syria, hes got to have...

French, cobbled together group of folks that looked a lot like libya and pushing putin to help him stop from helping assad. >> a new york city story yesterday suggested some white house officials thought the presidents public words on this issue have not necessarily helped. is the white house now feeling they need to be visible on this? are we going to hear the president talk a lot about it or something they would rather just be out of the story at least in front of the creams? >> i dont think t...