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To do. when i was ambassador in kuwait in the midnight to nine days, i referred to a carrier battle group as a 100,000 tons of diplomacy. i worked very closely with central command to be sure we had carrier present in the northern gulf when we need it. the president has made the right move both in syria and in korea, but again, this is just the beginning. i would say about the attacks on palm sunday in egypt reminds us all that we have got a determined and absolutely ruthless enemy in the form o...

He did such a good job. i love that im going to toss it out to rick for some wet weather. it looks pretty nice where you are. rick: finally a lot of the country is looking really good a great day for almost everybody. at least we will say the eastern two thirds of the country. take a look at the maps and see what is going on. what we have not seen in a long time is warm temperatures across the eastern two thirds of the country. heres what you are going to have the next few days. look at sunday i...

Dont you believe that? dont you think donald trump is going to back away from a punk like assad if he uses gas again? >> i didnt say anything about the president of united states backing up. you asked me if its going to stopas it -- >> bill: why would he risk his own neck?. >> okay. we are dealing with a crazy man in the middle of a war with a thousand different factions, and he still has, i believe, he destroyed 1300 tons of that a stuff back in 2012-2013 and he still got it. i think you could ...

Being 50, it will be 150. it will devastate the whole infrastructure of syria. dont you believe that? dont you think donald trump is going to back away from a punk like assad if he uses gas again? >> i didnt say anything about the president of united states backing up. you asked me if its going to stop it -- >> bill: why would he risk his own neck? >> okay. we are dealing with a crazy man in the middle of a war with a thousand different factions, and he still has, i believe, he destroyed 1300 to...

And we are now seeing years later, weve seen the rise of isis, mass atrocities, the re-insertion of russia that has emboldened hezbollah and iran, the mass migration of refugees that has completely destabilized europe. its going to be a stain on his legacy. >> martha: respond. >> if you prefer those 1300 tons of chemical weapons be in the hands of isis today, im happy for you to make that argument. was it a perfect solution? they wouldve been in the hands of the assad regime today. let me finish...

Because i was there with john kerry when he went up to testify. we asked congress for permission to take those strikes. and congress said no. hundreds of members of congress wrote us a letter saying come to us, we deserve a role in in a y of whether we take strikes. i havent heard any of those members in congress over the past 24 hours say the same thing. >> martha: the congress has 48 hours to go to congress for permission. there is a situation where you can act for us and as for permission lat...

Off on the strike. and we are now seeing years later, weve seen the rise of isis, mass atrocities, the re-insertion of russia that has emboldened hezbollah and iran, the mass migration of refugees that has completely destabilized europe. its going to be a stain on his legacy. >> martha: respond. >> if you prefer those 1300 tons of chemical weapons be in the hands of isis today, im happy for you to make that argument. was it a perfect solution? they wouldve been in the hands of the assad regime t...

Well and along comes this strike in syria which horrified anyone who had ever seen it. it was an opportunity to take a stand and he took it. >> he took it and its going to be popular with republicans, its going to be popular very much on syria, its going to be popular with the democrats. and for trump, if we were to distill the cynical politics, it allows him to not be obama. he has so wanted to distinguish his presidency from everybody, from other presidents have come before. this allows him, o...

Nato secretary mattis told about the strike beforehand but also psychological. this is a game changer. people are saying what is going to happen next even though both mcmaster and tillerson have said nothing is going to happen next. we have done the strike we wanted to do to retaliate against this chemical weapon attack. >> but nato and ally countries liking it doesnt mean it was authorized by the u.n. security council, which it one and doesnt mean its going to qualify in the unite as retaliator...

Days of august in 2013, after that chemical weapons attack in gunpoint , was that the time for this strike? >> i think in 2013 we accomplished by not firing a shot far more than we could have accomplished with an attack. back then, we couldnt have targeted the chemical weapons themselves. we would have taken strikes similar to what president trump took last night. but instead, as a result of being prepared to use force, we were able to get a deal with russia to get the vast bulk of the chemical ...