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Occasional defensive tweet from the commander in chief. >> i think they realize that it is a weakness. >> still, youve got to have a strategy for weaknesses as well as strengths. >> do you think that the british intelligence, european intelligence, robin, would give us everything that they have? i tried to sort of get jim sciutto to break this down specifically. were these duplicates? was this new communications? will they give using that they have? >> they havent given it to me, so i dont know....

And in some ways it can crimp your style, it can limit the kind of outreach and i think that has probably done that. i think its going to be tougher for this administration to deal with the russians right now, to find common ground on what comes next in syria. they have a very different perspective and that hasnt been clarified by the administration in the subsequent days. you had that morning-after glow that has faded very quickly less than a week later. >> and the syrians flew warplanes from t...

That americans have an aversion to chemical weapons, period. and i think the visual of nikki haley holding those photos, the photographic evidence moved donald trump and many americans. my fear is that this strike worked and he may want to do more, but the next one may not be against assad. it may end up going against isis and doing something with those oil fields he promised to bomb during the campaign. >> robin, you know, after the gas attack, president trump said that he thought -- he thought...

Worked and he may want to do more, but the next one may not be against assad. it may end up going against isis and doing something with those oil fields he promised to bomb during the campaign. >> robin, you know, after the gas attack, president trump said that he thought -- he thought of himself as flexible and capable of changing. is that lack of certain policy leading to all of this confusion? >> yes, and i think the fact the administration has flip-flopped completely, one day nikki haley was...

Syria. so, theres not just confusion, the fact is that once you engage in a military operation that also changes the diplomatic options that are on the table. and in some ways it can crump your style, it can limit the kind of outreach and i think that has probably done that. i think its going to be tougher for this administration to deal with the russians right now, to find common ground on what comes next in syria. they have a very different perspective and that hasnt been clarified by the admi...

Attention to achieving cease-fire agreements between the regime and opposition forces. and it is through that political process that we believe the syrian people will ultimate matly be able to decide the fate of assad. >> both secretary tillerson and ambassador haley are right about that. when we really need to do and what everyone in this conflict needs to do is everything they can to resolve this civil war. >> lets bring in our panel. political analyst, kirsten powers. former assistant secreta...

On saturday in teheran, he did not hold back criticism of americas strike on syria. trump didnt ask the u.n. for permission ignoring all international principals and laws. he continued the attack was gone with aggression, blatantly and outrageously. lets bring in two experts to talk about how this plays out. robin wright is a contributing editor for the new yorker, shes reported extensively from iran and about iran. kareem is a senior fellow, his work focuses on iraq. robin, let me ask you and t...

It risks losing heads and inviting potentially more u.s. military involvement in syria, which they obviously dont want as robin said earlier, iran is consistently doubled down on bashar assad over the last six years and invested tens of billions of dollars in syria and in contrast to the united states, which really has air power in syria, iran has not only their own ground forces but they assembled tens of thousands of militia of lebanese, shiite and afghan and pakistan. iran is firmly committed...

It if responds too aggressively, it risks losing heads and inviting potentially more u.s. military involvement in syria, which they obviously dont want as robin said earlier, iran is consistently doubled down on bashar assad over the last six years and invested tens of billions of dollars in syria and in contrast to the united states, which really has air power in syria, iran has not only their own ground forces but they assembled tens of thousands of militia of lebanese, shiite and afghan and p...

Joining us is andrew, author of in the lions den. and robin wright, contributing author for the new yorker. obviously yesterday in the rose garden we saw president trump claim a reversal in his opinion towards syria and assad. let me play you one more time what he said. >> that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me, big impact. it was a horrible, horrible thing. and i have been watching it and seeing it and it doesnt get any worse than that. and i will tell you its already happened...