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Syria only after a typical weekend morning tweet storm attacking "the washington post" and fraizing fox news. in true trumpian fashion he blamed the crisis hes facing on barack obama. if president obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand the syrian disaster would have ended long ago, exclamation point. animal assad would have been history. joining me now colonel jack jacobs, natasha bertrand and rosa brooks. colonel jack, i will read you the update. hes added to that, many dead inclu...

Is not a country that we want to get into a shooting war with. i dont expect anything much to happen except something purely symbolic. i do think trumps advisers, they dont like this but they know perfectly well theres not much for us to do and we dont have the capacity to get into the kind of diplomatic surge that is what we should be doing right now. >> natasha youve been reporting so much on the russia interference with our election, donald trumps extreme deference towards vladimir putin. thi...

Vladimir putin is one of, if not the top ally of assad, the president of syria, it was very in effective. it was a strike that was completely divorced from any kind of coherent policy. it was based more on emotion than an actual strategic long-term effective approach to dealing with this conflict in syria. whether or not they actually start to come out now and be tougher on russia in terms of its support for the assad regime and, you know, the fact that its in there with iran and theyre all coop...

Not always, does from time to time get horrified at humanitarian disasters and i think responds in a visceral way so i think he was easily convinced probably by kelly to write that tweet. putin probably recognizes theres nothing in it but public relations. i think that trump probably did feel very strongly about it. >> why do you suppose things seem to have been deteriorating so rapidly in syria or isnt just that we havent been paying attention to it? >> we havent paid much attention to it but t...

And other humanitarian disaster for no reason whatever. donald trump was recently saying as tuesday that he wanted to pull out completely in syria and now hes not only tweeting about whats happening there but hes invoked the name of vladimir putin in a negative way, something hes never done. >> since he made the comment about pulling out from syria, the central command commander whos responsible for that region said, no, bad idea. and i think that the -- the tweet involving putin is of real inte...

Happened. now even his key white house advisor on national security h.r. mcmaster admits that the evidence is incontrovertible. what does donald trump do. does he say its outrageous and an unsupportable outrageous attack on american security and met with sanctions? he spends the weekend in a twitter storm attacking everyone else except russia. this raises the most profound questions about how he reacts to a significant challenge to the united states, which is ongoing. last week we heard from the...