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Another thing that he was critical of president obama telegraphing and telling the enemy what they were going to do ahead of time so they had chances to scramble and avoid some of the destruction that occurred. now it looks like article two, commander in chief war powers, well see with a file. >> juan, there was praised for president trump from key democrats, both nancy pelosi, the minority leader, and senator chuck schumer said, making sure that assad knows that he will pay that price is the ri...

Administration signaling perhaps a policy shift. perhaps not just how we deal with syria going forward, but perhaps north korea, as well. what are you taking from what we just heard from the ambassador and the strike as well last night? >> i agree with jeremy. this is the beginning of something. the question then becomes what do you define it to be? as a military planner, you always try to begin with the end in mind. i think ambassador haley is telegraphing that hey, there is a new view coming f...

A message to the entire world tonight that america is back in war crimes like this will not be tolerated. >> i think you could say the message to bashar al-assad was if you want to lose everything that youve gotten left pretty much defenseless just keep on going the way that youre going, if we can take out one of your airbases, we can take them all out, just move more ships into the region, fire more cruise missiles at you. in terms of telegraphing, the president hasnt said on many, many occasio...

The past few days and the statements hes made, i think he, as soon as he saw those images, like everyone else across the world, you were heartbroken. theyre devastating pictures. syrias in a humanitarian disaster situation now. something needed to be done, and he has opposed the previous administrations telegraphing all of their efforts and their steps, and i think he was very calculated in his keeping things under the vest, keeping things quiet and confidential and striking exactly when and how...

Crossed a lot of lines, beyond a red line, what does that mean? >> its hard to know whether he was just spouting rhetoric or whether he is telegraphing something. i took away from that that hes drawing a line now about what hes going to do in the future. what i hope it means, erin, is that this administration will get serious about the civil war in syria. hitherto, they really havent. i hope he was listening to king abdullah standing next to him when the king says there has to be a political sol...

Trump did a bit of telegraphing yesterday in an interview he did with financial times. doesnt want to bring up tariffs in this meeting. it will be interesting to see where he goes with that. came out a few days ago and said im going to have a tough conversation with china about trade. now hes sort of hedging a little bit. i dont think theyve decided how to strike that balance. >> im speaking in the inner circle will. specifically referencing what you reported regarding krisher in ban and priebus...

They said look for a predicate to be laid down here, that is when nunes started talking about incidental collection, the white house already had this information. >> and anderson, the fact youre asking me this right now demonstrates why its a problem. just the perception of a conflict of interest can be as bad as a conflict of interest, that is why i think the responsible thing to do for the chairman is to step aside. also anderson, when you talk about telegraphing something that is coming, that...

Just the perception of a conflict of interest can be as bad as a conflict of interest, that is why i think the responsible thing to do for the chairman is to step aside. also anderson, when you talk about telegraphing something that is coming, that has a ring of familiarity to me, because that is the same thing we saw discussed on john podesta, so again, whether they are unwittingly using the tactics the russians orchestrated, well see that play out in the white house. >> thank you. joining us...

Believe that they are organized enough to orchestrate something like this. >> why would he say that? >> so youre saying he was just making stuff up? >> he says it -- i think it was a throwaway line. i think its, youre going to be surprised at the information that comes out. >> and then when sean spicer said, wait until the end of the week to see what comes out, was he also just being optimistic? >> you know, thats -- i -- you know what, i cant say anything about where saern was coming from on th...

President kind of telegraphing that something was going to happen. the press secretary giving similar statements. now a staffer -- and i spoke to someone yesterday who was talking about the staffer who works for the national security council on intelligence but is a white house staffer who apparently -- their story is he took it upon himself to do research on wire tapping. >> thats what you do in the first 60 days. >> obviously. of course. after the presidents tweet, he just free lanced this. an...