we thank you for joining us so early this morning. we have to talk about these mixed messages from the white house. first we had nikki haley saying that we need to get assad out of power in syria, then rex tillerson saying shortly before that that it should be up to the syrian people. and yesterday we had this confusion over barrel bombs. sean spicer yesterday said that the president doesn't want to telegraph his position on syria. but isn't it the responsibility of the administration not only to the american people but our allies around the world to say these are the goals we have for the crisis in syria, this is what we want to see? >> are you asking me what is the trump doctrine? is that what it boils down to? >> why don't we know what it is? >> we don't really. we know some threads that run through it and you just are ticked off a couple of them. i think it's fair to say given the events in syria over the last week, thingsare toughening up there. the donald trump that ran that said these are not our problems, that is no longer operative as