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Going to do. i can assure he didnt like the missile strikes and probably worried about what the u.s. is going on do in syria. hes strong in syria, military forces on the ground, significant impact, and pushing back the moderate rebels that we support. we dont know what his next chess move is going to be. its essential that we get him to stand down and get assad to step down. >> eric: a lot of people said under barack obama this country had become a paper tiger, would i say thats no longer the ca...

The killing of five of his sub ordinance. all sorts of things indicating problems with the top of the north korean military. this means that this guy has a low threshold of risk, a different risk calculus than he should have. >> eric: a twitchy trigger finger so to speak. what are our military options, colonel? >> theyre limited. on the 137 wide demill tarized zone, the pieces in north korea, pointing 30 miles south of them, to a 10 million populated city, seoul, korea. every war game weve done,...

We would take it out. were not going to ae into the . hes right, theres 25 million people in seoul. and north korea has the fourth largest military, forward deployed, 30 miles away. this is going to be a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. theres going to be a couple hundred thousand casualties in the first two hours. >> eric: colonel, do you think the 20,000 pound bomb dropped on afghanistan had any effect on kim jong un? >> no. thatsted biggest weapon, nuclear weapon. hes paying attention to...

To be a lobbyist in d.c. >> i dont know, ive never been a lobbyist. but im sure they make a lot of money. >> eric: congressman, come, on you know how profitable it is to be a lobbyist, come on. >> yeah, yeah. lobbyists make a lot of money and they dispense a lot of money to members of congress to their campaigns, to the national republican campaign committee or the dccc. and they have a lot of influence in washington, d.c. >> eric: should we be closing that money flow, that pipeline of funds fro...

Difficult target. >> eric: gordon, do you think this had any effect on the mentality of kim jong un? >> absolutely. we used it on an underground network of facilities. no country has more military facilities than north korea. his father spent six weeks in the bunker during the 2003 iraq war, he was afraid of george w. bush. i think kim jong un will stay out of public. he understands that trump has a low threshold for the use of force and is willing to actually exert american power for good. >> e...

I mean -- >> russia and china, two. >> eric: the two biggest threats? >> okay, you said assad. >> eric: one quick final thought. what is the u.s. relationship with russia going forward? >> it will be a complex one. look, putin has very big ambitions. putin sees you either as a panther or a poodle. he sees you as slide slave or a master. its possible that now that he sees, hopefully sees that trump is not going to roll over for him, he will be more willing to have realistic discussions. he wants ...

Us. you are in favor of the vote that went down a week ago. how did that switch to lets rescind that vote? a >> i wish i could tell you. there were to go council members that called a special meeting. they had their reasons and everyone came to the table again. i voted to keep the sanctuary city clause in the resolution. and i voted to remove it. >> eric: on why it was rescinded, your thoughts? >> i see this as an unnecessary controversy that was created over a specific word for political reason...

Circumstances, the common carrier, united airlines in this case, is responsible. >> eric: joining us with reaction from fort lauderdale, attorney mark aguilar and from los angeles, arag, also a lawyer, you say united did nothing wrong. we did find that one guy. >> i didnt say they did nothing wrong. aim plaintiffs attorney. i exclusively represent victims of corporate conduct where they engage in unsafe behavior and hurt people all the time, thats all do i. as plaintiffs attorney you have to loo...

Thought barack obama should have done missile strikes against assad. >> eric: might have saved us a lot of time, money, and -- >> iully agree. >> eric: and deaths. cliff, did donald trump do the right thing sending the tomahawk missiles into syria? >> absolutely. he began, i would say, began to re-establish strategic denernts the world. very important, not just assad, iran, the north koreans understand that america has power but it has the determination and the will to use it in its best interes...

Blocked every single security council resolution related to syria. thats why unfortunately the u.s. had to act on its own. which is controversial under international law but in my view it is justified. no one else would take action, and we as a country, and all countries, have a responsibility to protect innocent civilians when mass atrocities have been happening as they have been for the last six-plus years resulting 500,000 deaths. >> eric: david, two strikes in two weeks, who is the recipient...