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Relations. let me start with you. you have written a lot about this. what is your interpretation of the sort of humanitarian justification for what we did? it is so striking for me how much we talk about humanitarian war reasons going back to the reentrance into iraq because the yazidis were stuck and now weve got 5,000 troops in iraq. what do you make of this? >> every president when they go to war provide a buffet of justification objectives. most are articulated with such lack of specificity ...

What should you care about and what should americans care about. that ropes in the most domestic political audience. the problem in the case of the strikes last night in syria, they dont have a humanitarian impulse. theyre intended to punish the assad regime and one particular abandoned airfield in order to demonstrate resolve and credibility which are amorphous concepts. >> joy, its interesting to watch the obama world folks here because one of the things that im seeing is the degree to which t...

>> there are no good answers here, and president trump continues to give details about what he says he will do or might do or might not do, refusing to saying we wouldnt telegraph military moves. could he outline military moves without giving anything away to the enemy? >> lets go do what was said about russia, hes changed his opinion on assad because of some very emotional and devastating unfortunate pictures of some chemical deaths. but assad has been doing this for years, hes been using barre...

Right? that one they did not want to talk about. that one, they wanted to do it for some reason but they knew they couldnt defend it. so that one they did in secret. they still did it but they did it in secret. were starting to learn the ropes with these guys. they will make a show out of anything they want to. but were also learning that they are unusually afraid. they are deathly afraid to talk about their own actions that they cant defend where they are acting not because a single identifiabl...

Cameras, closed the doors and very quietly that same day, the president also signed a very consequential bill which makes it easier for seriously mentally ill people to buy firearms because you remember how everybody campaigned in november on the more guns for the seriously mentally ill platform, right? that one they did not want to talk about. that one, they wanted to do it for some reason but they knew they couldnt defend it. so that one they did in secret. they still did it but they did it in...

For putin over the years. >> hes a very arrogant person to deal with. we have to stand up to his bullying. he is somebody who will take as much as he possibly can. >> reporter: but it was what happened in 2011 that marked a point of no return. it began with the arab spring protests early that year. the kind of popular uprising that putin dreaded. >> he begins to see himself through the eyes of hosni mubarak. >> reporter: mubarak of egypt was facing prosecution. syrias bashar al assad was on the ...

Clinton had a lot of tough words for putin over the years. >> hes a very arrogant person to deal with. we have to stand up to his bullying. he is somebody who will take as much as he possibly can. >> but it was what happened in 2011 that marked a point of no return. it began with the arab spring protests early that year. the kind of popular uprising that putin dreaded. >> he begins to see himself through the eyes of hosni mubarak. >> mubarak of egypt was facing prosecution. bashar al assad was o...

>> because her case is considered high-profile after making local news, guzman is housed in the jails female segregation wing where she can be better protected. >> im in the worst situation possible. i can get in more trouble. its hard sometimes. its really hard. >> guzman has only made one friend in the unit. kelsey erwin, an inmate well-known for trouble has taken her under her wing. >> i trusted her as far as showing me the ropes and everything and im very appreciative because of what she did...

I dont think it was protracted enough. 64 days is not a long time to tackle something as complicated as obamacare. it took president obama, excuse me, president obama more than a year to get his bill passed, and it was a landmark bill, the signature bill that he went through regular order. kelly: right. >> he went through the committees. and i think thats what were seeing now. republicans have a responsibility to go back to the negotiating table. they got knocked down. theyre on the ropes now. t...

Of obamacare through. he went through regular order. there was some secrecy involved, yes. but they did go through some regular order. and now were seeing calls on capitol hill to please dont abandon this. for four election cycles, they said this is their top priority. they ran against obamacare. so, they have a responsibility to repeal and replace it. and fix it. this is not on just democrats. now, republicans own part of this problem. and, yes, premiums are skyrocketing across the country, esp...