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Their own territorial ambitions for some autonomy in northern syria and that erdogan is planning to go ahead with this operation to essentially wipe out the kurds that weve been working with east of the euphrates river and trump essentially giving him a green light to do so. >> okay. nbcs josh lederman, thank you so much. and, gene robinson, this sounds way too familiar. remember when the russians were dropping bombs claiming to be fighting against isis with us when all they were willing doing...

Incident in syria that he suggested the -- that trump suggested killing assad, that he would say he turned -- koord according to the book, said we are not going to do that. and i think that is the -- that is the overarching theme that connects the woodward book and this op-ed is the idea that the presidency versus the president. we see where we frame it the other way, where trump is doing something that the administration doesnt want. now we have seen come into focus, crystalized this week the i...

Troops, no, he went after these airbases. they can be reconstructed. the question for me and i think for lots of people in the congress is, what is the endgam endgame? because if you do, in fact, destabilize syria by hurting assad, do you plan then to go in and take over syria? oh, my goodness. i think that is what eric bolling is concerned about in terms of a prolonged u.s. military commitment that would mimic something like what happened when we went into iraq or our ongoing commitment in term...

Another thing that he was critical of president obama telegraphing and telling the enemy what they were going to do ahead of time so they had chances to scramble and avoid some of the destruction that occurred. now it looks like article two, commander in chief war powers, well see with a file. >> juan, there was praised for president trump from key democrats, both nancy pelosi, the minority leader, and senator chuck schumer said, making sure that assad knows that he will pay that price is the ri...

Kimberly, the pentagon has this hotline that is established so that they were not innate -- so u.s. warplanes fuente to come up for interest, russian airplanes. that hotline, we are told, is still operational even though the russians have threatened to take it down. it has been used since the attack, and the russians were given a one hour heads up. that means they knew this was going to be a limited strike. this was a very powerful, symbolic strike, 59 tomahawks, you wouldnt want to be on the re...

Involved last night has already returned to port and is resupplying with the tomahawks because they shot, as we mentioned, 60 out of the 78 the two were carrying. they are already resupplying, back in position in the eastern mediterranean as though the u.s. military is retreating. >> how long will it take them to reposition another they are going back to resupplying? >> not long. im not going to give away where they resupply but its close. >> jennifer, what happens if assad uses very much ordina...

Decision based on moral equivalence. are we exceptional as a nation at what we want to protect other people? the other thing i wonder, apparently president trump said the picture and videos of this attack is what elicited the outrage in him, but assad has other ways of killing, and he doesnt hesitate to kill his own people and innocent children. that is interesting to me to figure out. so how does that emotional response, which i share, translate into a coherent strategy that is legally justifie...

On the one hand, they box themselves a little bit into a corner because they have sent this very strong signal to assad and to his russian patrons. however, assad survived, and they know, yes, the u.s. military has ways to ramp this up, but the u.s. military also could get drawn further into a quagmire and both russia and the assad regime knows there is no real stomach for that. >> we are going to bring it around. >> so interesting, jennifer, youre doing excellent reporting, we discussed this an...

>> harris: russia so thats not going to happen. i dont know if you want to fight russia for that. tomorrow, if they go out and tell their people again in the same way, general jack keane will hold -- will blow away the other airfields. according to russia, we didnt blow apart the entire airfield. do you want to believe the russians? what is a go after that? >> juan: you have added airfields so it comes back to what you are talking about which i took to heart, which is what the next step? do we w...

Assad, sb 6 points out, was in damascus, and at the airport, and he still has the capability to do it. again, i asked jennifer griffin yesterday, what is the administrations purpose or the militarys purpose here? is it to kill assad? and she specifically said, not only not kill assad but not even regime change. >> killing assad would be illegal. you cannot kill another world leader. even if you really want to. no one is ever going to say that. >> but the russians say but we did was an attack on ...