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>> joining us is steve israel, a political commentator, former obama deputy. deputy dhs secretary julia khayyam. juliette, youve expressed concerns about how donald trumps national security council was shaping up. how do you see it shaping up with general mcmaster? >> i agree, give credit where credit is due, this is a good pick. but what we dont know is whether this is the end of the war between a national security staff and the war led by bannon or if this is replacing one general for another....

Trumps national security council was shaping up. how do you she ee it shaping up with general mcmaster? >> i agree, give cadiredit wher credit is due, but whether this is an end of the war led by bannon or is this just replacing one general for another. in terms of having someone who respects process and is not bureaucratic mumbo jumbo, it is very important that agencies like dhs, d.o.d. have a seat at the table so they can give the best advice to the president of the united states. that is what...

S you have to make sure they dont defect.3 senator s you have to make sure they dont defect. >> we had john mccain as a serious detractor of our th then-secretary of defenses don rumsfeld. he was far more than a gadfly. he was able to drive the national conversation about what was going wrong in -- i would have to say, i dont think its an overstatement to suggest john mccains critique of the war led to a policy process that led to the surge that turned the war around. he is a very influential vo...

It wasnt a very close election. i think he has to move forward with his agenda and live up to the promises he made to his people. i think if he does that, they will stay with him. if he loses that, i think john mccain and lindsey graham are always going to be a couple gadflies, one is the nominee who ran and got clobbered, the other -- when we have 5 senator s you have to make sure they dont defect.3 senator s you have to make sure they dont defect. >> we had john mccain as a serious detractor o...

And thats with records to the houthi is, in yemen. >> do you buy that? does that reduce irans influence if successful? >> good luck in actually doing that. if you look back the 2003 iraq war, when we went in it created a lot of mistakes. but one of the biggest mistakes is we ended a policy of dual containment. we contained saddam hussein under iraq who didnt have nuclear weapons, and we contained iran. and that war led to an expansion of iranian influence, and, you know, the rest is like watchin...

Inflame or reduce tensions within ukraine itself and this was the response. >> there is no internal conflict in ukraine. what you have right now is not a civil war as your correspondent in moscow said. what you have is an irregular war led by russia against ukraine. >> there is no ukraine civil war is what he said. give me your assessment of that. >> that is absolutely true. if you look at the composition of the fighting forces and if you look at the leadership, the top people of the self-procla...

Allow me to bring into our conversation former u.s. ambassador to ukraine john herbst. professor herbst, let me ask about how this moment can potentially change the internal conflict within ukraine itself. >> there is no internal conflict in ukraine. what you is have is irregular war led by russia against ukraine. the leader, the military leader of this wore is say russian colonel. thats why the kremlin has been sending in hundreds of fighters. >> in that context, is there a way that putin can b...

im dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for joining us. hello, everyone. youre in the "cnn newsroom." im fredricka whitfield. outrage over a civilian massacre in syria is spilling out on to the streets. this was the scene in several cities today, of people so angry over the killing of 85 people in the town of hula, they risked retribution to turn out in force. video of some of 34 children killed in hula has surface ed online. children, some under the age of 10, some with missing limbs and severe...

the french philosopher who was responsible for getting france and perhaps the world to intervene there. hes just back from tripoli. then as another baseball season comes to a close in america, we sit down with michael lewis, the author of "moneyball," to talk about baseball and its lessons for business and life. but first, heres my take. regular "gps" watchers will know that i was in tehran last week to interview president mahmoud ahmadinejad. you can go to our website and watch exc...

the fills on forresponsible for getting france and perhaps the world to intervene there. hes just back from tripoli. then as another baseball season comes to a close in america, we sit down with michael lewis, the author of "moneyball," to talk about baseball and its lessons for business and life. first, heres my take. regular "gps" watchers will know that i was in tehran last week to interview president mahmoud ahmadinejad. you can go to our web site and watch excerpts of the inte...