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By knee. if theres no chance we can fix it, i will recommend we do our level best to work with allies to achieve a better outcome in a better deal. >> chris: does not indicate to you charlie that pompeo, as steve suggested, is now against just ripping up the iran nuclear deal? >> i think so. i think theres probably, they are more inclined to try to figure out a way to configure it instead of ripping it out. i think you raise a very important point here, the situation with iran, the situation wit...

And tanks. theyre entrenched. as we threaten to go back into the proxy war with an air strike of some kind, possibly bigger than the one a year ago, the russians are threaten to shoot down our missiles and retaliate. russia, syria and iran versus saudi arabia, other arab states and the united states. and were considering another move. the united states official position, there should be regime change in syria. who backs up the syrian regime? the russians. so what is the next move? well, the time...

On syria? its lost? if this is the new reality, what you are describing, which is sort of assad appeasement of some sorm, or acceptance. appeasement is a bad word there. or acceptance that assad is going to be there for a while. >> i think president trump telegraphed it just recently when he said i want to get out. and i want to get out right now. no, i think thats the objective here. weve done all we can do with isis. >> and the saudis and israelis dont want you us to live. >> the israelis have...

In syria where we have the soldiers up to 2,000 allegedly in the country. that i think is a very serious escalation. i think they should think hard about when they target russian soldiers in syria. >> i dont want to get ahead of myself, but its fair for the viewers to explore the idea that -- is there a danger of syria becoming a proxy war? the united states doesnt like iran and what iran is up to and we are adversaries with russia and those parties are involved in syria. >> it is a proxy war an...

In syria where we have the soldiers up to 2,000 allegedly in the country. that i think is a very serious escalation. i think they should think hard about when they target russian soldiers in syria. >> i dont want to get ahead of myself, but its fair for the viewers to explore the idea that -- is there a danger of syria becoming a proxy war? the united states doesnt like iran and what iran is up to and we are adversaries with russia and those parties are involved in syria. >> it is a proxy war an...

To go forward. im sure everybody who has been working hard to present the president with options were stunned. we have 2,000 troops in syria. they are at risk here as well. this is a very serious decision. syria has always been a proxy war. a lot of players using it as a map. russia and iran are big players in syria. the decision the president has to make are consequential. when he tweets out lets go after russia. russia has nuclear weapons. we have nuclear weapons. the possibilities here are ex...

Complete surprise. he tweeted get ready, russia, the missiles will be coming and they will be nice and new and smart. >> as we heard from general mattis, they have not finished the assessment of whether and how this attack took place though we all believe assad was behind it. we havent decided on what options we are going to take. we havent worked out everything with our coalition partners. i hope we will with the british and the french. teresa may, the prime minister of great britain was going ...

Strike. they might not strike in a symmetric fashion. they will strike at opposition forces inside syria where we have soldiers inside of the country, up to 2,000 and thats a serious escalation and they should think hard before they target russian soldiers in syria. >> general, i dont want to get ahead of myself. i think is fair for our viewers to explore the idea is there a danger of syria becoming a proxy-war. the united states doesnt like a iran and what they are up to. >> it is and has been ...

A proxy war to great extent the saudis are seeing that and it gets complicated you know the united states through the saddam hussein regime in iraq which was a shia minority government a sunni majority country and the saudis were trying to who were there in the fretwork getting rid of assad and tell somebody may not russians that america can step in and say this has to stop theres no chance of peace at all you know ambassador you definitely right there you speak to help complicated in how diffic...

Allies who have a small presence. all of this, though, risks more of a proxy war than we have a stomach for. it potentially gets into -- i think we could be looking more at the tactical pinprick strike coupled with diplomatic pressure as well. >> within the next 48 hours the u.s. would respond. admiral, thank you so much. well come back to syria in a moment. ladies, to put a button on our conversation, scott pruitt, a bit of background, the president defends his epa chiefs $50 a night apartment ...