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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...

Way to get into facts. 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 ...

Called a heinous act. then we heard rhetoric from president trump himself. whether or not that means, and this is going to translate into military action against the assad regime or some sort of policy shift saying the policy of the united states government is regime change, i think were a little farah head ahead of t. i think what we have is strong rhetoric. they have military options and we should say assets in the region. but whether or not they decide to pull the trigger and what they decide...

Would be the one to do that. >> i dont envy either of them. i cant imagine the spotlight that they feel but, you know, the world is watching. the world is watching. so michelle kosinski and kate bennett, thank you so much. coming up, president trump speaking today from the rose garden talking about syria saying lines have been crossed as he directly now is blaming the president of syria from the chemical attack killing dozens of syrians, including young children. this is a dramatic shift from ...

Occasion with tweets is not helpful to it. i once operated on the premise that every day wed try to put sort of political capital in the bank for the president, knowing that it was going to have to be spent. president reagan got a tax bill passed, he got budget bills passed with majorities in a house that was controlled by the other party, by the democrats. thats only possible if you really build trusting relationships, if you respect both the members of your own party and the opposition party, ...

Secretary tillerson suggesting that removing him isnt really the priority anymore. >> i think the status and the longer term status of president assad will be decided by the syrian people. >> we also heard that sentiment from u.n. ambassador nikki haley, telling a small group of reporters, quote, you pick and choose your battles. when looking at this, it is about changing up priorities and our priority is no longer to focus on getting assad out. what does this mean? why does it matter? because i...

Criticized something that putins done. >> well, but youre making a very important distinction that it was mr. toner who i used to work with when i was in the government at the state department. that statement that cape out which i applaud, i think it was the appropriate kind of statement, that would have been a statement you would see during the obama administration. does not sound at all like what president trump has said about vladimir putin and russia. i dont think hes ever used the words hum...

As far as actual policy enacted, this administration has achieved very little in their first two months, the muslim ban was a cornerstone of the campaign, it was supposed to be the first major policy shift of the trump presidency, it was the flagg they were going to plant on capitol hill, the nationalist foundation upon which everything else was going to be built. the answer from the courts, the answer from the constitution is nope, not today. not here, not anywhere. joining us now is neal kat...

Against it brought by more states that are all pending tonight. stacked up like planes ready to land after this one. as far as actual policy enacted, this administration has achieved very little in their first two months, the muslim ban was a cornerstone of the campaign, it was supposed to be the first major policy shift of the trump presidency, it was the flagg they were going to plant on capitol hill, the nationalist foundation upon which everything else was going to be built. the answer from ...

Tonight. stacked up like planes ready to land after this one. as far as actual policy enacted, this administration has achieved very little in their first two months, the muslim ban was a cornerstone of the campaign, it was supposed to be the first major policy shift of the trump presidency, it was the flagg they were going to plant on capitol hill, the nationalist foundation upon which everything else was going to be built. the answer from the courts, the answer from the constitution is nope, n...