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Coming together. there are two sides in about a right now, nobody wants to see it turn into a proxy war between the u.s. and russia, so its a very treacherous situation to navigate. >> jon: on that front, we expect to hear from nikki haley at the u.n., and our u.s. ambassador, the u.n. ambassador any minute now. glenn hall, thank you. >> julie: weve gotten information for you this our coming and as a manhunt is now underway for a truck driver who plowed into a department store in stockholm, swed...

Ben, thank you. ben wedeman and my thanks to barbara starr. president obamas military offensive in syria was against isis. president trumps strike was against the leader and regime of syria. under the obama white house, the u.s. was leading a coalition of nations. currently the u.s. is going it alone. and under president obama, the u.s. was working with russia to attack the common enemy of isis but under president trump, thursday nights launches have many concern that the u.s. may be entering a ...

Assad regime. give us your assessment or your analysis in terms of what iran is thinking tonight. are they going to double down in backing assad? are they going to add more resources to this fight or do you think they too will have a moment of pause now that the u.s. is going after the regime itself? >> you know, i think that is a very good point that you brought up. weve had 7,000 air strikes in syria. as far as i know, not one of them has been targeting anything about the assad regime. in that...

Then what do you do? because what he wants to do is force the united states into a position where it has to confnt the posbili of going in on the ground. we kw that trump and nobody else wants to do that. >> chris, let me read you just a few reactions that were getting from the middle east. this is not a surprise, but i want to read you a statement from the saudi press agency, the official state-controlled media there. saudi arabia says it fully supports the strikes, and heres what the statement...

Relations in the regime. it is a proxy war, you said before, it certainly is. forces arrayed against each other in situation they dont want to fight for obvious reasons and using this as battlefield and other places to fight this war for control of the area, control of minds, i mean, iran versus saudi arabia in the region, so on. >> hugely. >> in the larger context important to bifurcate the world between those who will not use these weapons and those who will. >> give a sense of the trajectory ...

For a summit like this. they would produce the accord that would be signed off. so perhaps were getting some of that because until recently, whether you agreed with it or disagreed with it, the hallmark of trumps foreign policy was incoherence and amateurishness. there was no there, there. there was just a big question mark. >> im glad you mentioned mcmaster and i want to ask john about this because, john, theres so many -- theres so many top people, top-level people with the president, jared ku...

The administration and their power to that end. put that aside. vladimir putin has got to be absolutely loving whats going on right now, that the administration, the white house, the national security apparatus of the united states, is caught up in this rather than confronting his quest to rebuild the soviet union greatness, whether it be in libya and egypt where he got groups in syria or in the ukraine. >> absolutely. he is very pleased, i think, because that distracts us from getting serious a...

Hes counterattacking and hes winning. i dont see any other winning dynamic for putin. >> to continue your metaphor of the tiger, how long till the red meat turns from what we largely see now, which is anti-america propaganda, some provocations overflying u.s. war ships, those kinds of things, into real blood. into a war, whether it be a proxy war, restarted in the ukraine, whether it be some kind of excursion into libya, whether it be trying to recapture egypt as a russian soviet ally. what does...

You may have there. could have a huge upside but i know youre word worried about motivation. >> we have to understand theyre already fighting against the iranian influence down in jordan and yemen and places like that but we need to understand what their intention is. if this is going to be a proxy war against iran we need to be careful about using our resource. >> shannon: whats the best way of determining that? >> thats what secretary mattis was trying to get at. i think its something with pro...

The dangers posed by the trump presidency but of this desire that we seem to have to have the military industrial complex, as dwight eisenhower called it when he warned about them 60 years ago, intervening in our democracy by imposing their own will outside of the democratic process. >> so let me ask a final question and try and wrap together all these subjects. does glen greenwald give any credence to a conspiracy theory thats now getting legs which says, hey, wasnt the russian playing games wi...