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It's very surprising for donald trump to do this, because he talked about justice and the united states protecting justice and rex tillerson talked about the international community, exactly the kind of words that they didn't -- he didn't use in last year's campaign. i'm reminded of something that ariel sharon said when he was prime minister. what you see from here is not what you see from there. in other words, what you see when you're the head of government, when the responsibility is yours, and 2ru6r7 used the word responsibility repeatedly the last few days. it's different. he's taking tha...

Same disburse sal and they're m discriminant. chemical weapons are indiscriminate and people die horrible deaths. >> reporter: the syrian people have been here before, when he used sarin crossing barack obama's red line. obama didn't bomb, but the u.n. did take away syria's chemical weapons. well, most of them. assad may have misread trump's willingness to act, but he may also benefit from this as american allies such as russia now have to stick by him. >> i don't think judging putin's character he will back away from syria, he will not come to a compromise with the trump administration. >> re...

>> because the united states is acted so decisively. this is the thing that has happened last eight years. barack obama was paralyzed by the fear and adverse consequences and particularly of military escalation. putin used in many times. we wanted to provide robust legal aid to the ukrainians, putin told him flat out if you do that, it's going to result in escalation. so we didn't do it. we didn't help the syrian moderates when we had an opportunity to do so and his entirety national security team advised that. the following year the redline was violent, his entire national security team told ...

This all speaks to what the trump doctrine is, what his policy will be. he's noen shown he's willing to act and act decisively. adds america's first agenda on war and peace where he said, look, syria's not our problem suddenly is his problem. so by acting once he's sure to act again. as you mentioned earlier, all of the focus is also on russia. the secretary of state will be going there next week. that's where this goes next here. but the president and his team standing by tonight and watching angds waiting for the reaction in syria. erin? >> jeff, thank you. let's go to clarissa ward on the s...

Could, should, and must, act decisively and immediately. but if you're going to engage u.s. troops in an ongoing war, i think you need to come get that authorization from u.s. congress. presidents on both sides of the aisle have skirted past this and i think it's wrong. i think it should change. >> a lot of people agree with you. what's going on in iraq right now. this assault to try to recapture the city of ramadi by the iraqi military. the u.s. is involved to a certain degree, from the air but the iraqi government doesn't want u.s. troops involved. they'd rather be aligned with iran and shii...