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Policy issues. lets talk it all over with republican strategist alice stewart. comedian and daily beast contributor, dean, and correspondent for the "washington examiner," sarah westwood. sarah, president trump came out this week with positions on nato, the chinese, even fed chair janet yellen that were all different than when he was running for office. do you think its a case of reality just looking different from the top? >> i think we were always going to have a risk of policy shift with pres...

Hanging all over the trump rhetoric. as to the misstep, exaggerations, i like a lot of people in the business professionally have seen that a lot of that would have disqualified donald trump the candidate and would have embarrassed donald trump the president. but this is a different presidency, a different time. he gets credit in the base for the things he does right like the supreme court pick which was very important to the base. and anything else as a policy shift, hes getting credit with som...

Questions and now theyre in front of all of us and theyre tricky and there are no easy answers. >> you know, steve, i want to pick up on something matt said there. he said people voted for donald trump because he was on outsider. i think thats true. the problem with these moves now, and matt said it himself, this is governance, right? he looks just the same as every other person who comes in and, oh, the realities are different, heres why i cant do what i said on the trail. on the trail he said ...

Administration signaling perhaps a policy shift. perhaps not just how we deal with syria going forward, but perhaps north korea, as well. what are you taking from what we just heard from the ambassador and the strike as well last night? >> i agree with jeremy. this is the beginning of something. the question then becomes what do you define it to be? as a military planner, you always try to begin with the end in mind. i think ambassador haley is telegraphing that hey, there is a new view coming f...

Hope the rest of the council is finally willing to do the same. the world needs to see the use of chemical weapons and the fact that they will not be tolerated. >> more context on president trumps reaction to the middle east to the apparent policy shift. lets go to momma med. very different words from a week ago when it was the future of syria and the future or bashar assad rests with the syrian people. >> reporter: well, good morning, christine, and yeah what a difference a few days make, this ...

Thats what happened at watergate, thats what happened in innumerable other investigations and that seems to be where were headed now. going to take a while. >> martha: thank you. good to see you tonight. still ahead, senator john mccain joins me to discuss the devastating chemical attacks in syria. and his reaction to what seemed today to be a policy shift on this from president trump. will ask john mccain about that coming up. up next as more and more members of congress call for investigations...

Specific way and if the world changes, i go the same way. i dont change. well, i do change and i will tell you that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. >> so the question is how big of an impact did it have? we have a great guest to talk about it. hes the ceo and president of news max a conservative website. hes also a long time friend and confidant of president trump. one could say the situation in syria has been devastating for quite some time, but yesterday president trump ha...

Fix usa. president obama do not attack syria, say your power for another and more important day. again to our very foolish leader, do not attack syria and if you do many bad things will happen. and another tweet, what i am saying is stay out of syria. are we actually seeing a policy shift now? keep in mind, secretary of state rex tillerson said that bashar al assad -- mr. donald trump says the mess that is syria is his responsibility. joining us now the fareed zakaria, gloria borger and mark hur...

Shocked to hear what gas it was, it crosses many, many lines beyond a redline. many, many lines. i have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it proudly. i will tell you that. >> james: chuck lane, the president employing the redline terminology that was so ill-advised for his predecessor. do we see a major policy shift? >> we saw a shift from the signals his own administration was sending only a few days earlier. senior officials signaling they might accept the perpetuati...

Slightly mixed but that, of course, was before this massive attack with with chemical weapons. people are wondering whether there will be some kind of strong measure from the united states to make it clear to assad that he can no longer continue these kinds of attacks. >> christiane amanpour in london for us, thank you very much. lets get some more on all of this with corey gardener who is joining us, a republican who serves on the senate foreign relations committee. thanks for joining me. >> ...