To intervene militarily if assad uses barrel bombs that means that we are involved in a civil war at a dramatic new level. so far what we have seen is that the one line for trump is chemical weapons, right? and this is just a deterrent about using sarin gas and other weapons that are banned under the chemicals weapons treaty that syria did sign and promise to give up the chemical weapons. so there is nothing from the white house yet that sean s statements aside that suggests that they are moving the line beyond chemical weapons. and congressman kingston, is it clear to you that the regime has changed for the u.s. policy toward syria the same as it was in the last administration? i am not certain, and it is out there as a possibility, and i think that the way they have played it is great, because it is putting up a with question mark and sets it up with discussion with russia this week with tillerson. and there is probably discussion with china last weekend. you think that the lac
From politico sean. you were saying whiteboards? yes, and white house staff with big butcher block paper and broke out into three groups, and one went out for security issues and economic issues and trying to come up with a list of things to sell. you sound like awful corporate retreats? well, one white house official said it reminded them back to fifth grade, and they were not pleased with the exercise. but inside of the white house, there is so much pressure right now, because they know that donald trump is paying attention to the 100-day marker. it does not really matter, and it is not a legal deadline or the constitutional deadline, but it is a a media deadline, and trump is a creature of the media, and he is watching them, and he know that if it is portrayed like he has not accomplished much, there is backlash. there is talk of the staff shake-ups and if you don t make a good impression in the next 19
U.s. to retaliate and strike again in syria. this is what sean spicer said, then i ll explain what he said after this. if you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb in to innocent people, i think you can you will see a response from this president. that is unacceptable. so by saying that, he said if you gas a baby or put a barrel bomb in, but then a short time after that the administration was very worried about drawing a new red line there that is something that would box this administration into a corner if you will here. so administration official said sean spicer misspoke. he is not changing policy but barr bombs would not constitute any tieype of action. this is all sort of a larger way of saying that this administration is still figuring out what its red line is and what its policy is because they know of course the obama
Crude barrels as jeff said, filled with shrap nell and explosive thrown out of the helicopters on civilian populations. and we have video from 2015, of some barrel bombs being thrown out of a helicopter, and we can show it to get our and that is actually barrel bombs specifically on a helicopter, and then i believe in some point, they are tossed out. and one of the things that assad has done is that he is sort of es ka lagt and escalating and seeing where the international community s red line to coin a phrase is, and so what he started to do with the barrel bombs is to add the chlorine gas. that is not actually banned under the chemicals weapons treaty, and so before he started to use the sarin gas the more way he did recently, he was putting the chlorine gas with the bomb, and not the confuse the subject more, but when i was thi lising to sean spice, it seems that sean spicer misspoke, because if the we are now going