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Conventional weapons in at least two areas in syria. thats significant. conventional weapons have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in this brutal seven-year war. u.s. commander meanwhile, have been examining satellite images of the weekends air strikes, targeting three main sites, trying to work out were they effective? clearly they were tactically effective, because those sites have been destroyed, but what is the deterrent effect? interestingly, one syriaen army defector, a man who was a...

We certainly heard from am bass do haley. what levers are will evident. you look at whats happened up to this point. what does the path forward look like. >> that is the big question. what is the path forward if theres going to be regime change, as john bolden would like to see, what is syria after assad looked like. there was effort in the obama administration to bring ink multiple parties to the table, to have that diplomatic discussion. thats part of using all of the tools in the national sec...

Says syria still has the means and the intent to use chemical weapons. now nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., has issued fresh warnings today repeating her locked-and-loaded phrase, but again saying to president assad today, we are watching, and warning russia as well, that new sanctions are coming against it as early as tomorrow. vice president mike pence says russia is in the wrong side of history, but russian lawmakers have been meeting president assad today, and russia is pledging...

Would like to say. we, but those end up being mixed messages in the end. >> ambassador mcfall, let me for a use your, that russian television is showing war movies. does that square with your understanding of how things are? whats your sense of the conversations taking place in policyin diplomatic circles in russia, in light of what happened a couple days ago? >> well, i was in the administration during several years, david. i just recently wrote a book coming out, and the longest, more tortured...

What exactly are americas goals going forward? nikki haley saying, by the way, again today that the u.s. will not leave syria until the goals are accomplished. she mentioned defeating isis. as for the other goals, thats the billing question, what exactly is u.s. policy in the future? david? >> bill neely in beirut for us. ambassador befall, let me -- we have an acting secretary of state, hes been in lima, peru, nikki haley, it strikes me, is or most high-parol file i want today. hocked and loa...

Lonely man, standing alone for many months. >> he also loves the media attention. in terms of poll, candidate donald trump would carry polls in his pocket of his jacket, the latest polls, and happily tell reporters the ones that he was up in and focusing on, so polling is very important to this president, almost as important as what the stock market is doing. look, but i would just note that james, comey, look, hes going to talk, have this book, but at the end of the day, the thing that matters ...