important statement hillary made. we saw 79 senators by our counts supported this individual strike. that s a big majority of people. any questions beyond that you saw lots of division about what do we do about assad. about refugees. she s speaking to a broader view here. just one policy agreed upon, a big fight. trump needs to clarify he won t abide by his campaign rhetoric. if your doctrine is no doctrine. if your doctrine is i m flexible that s not something people can act upon. it s unclear what you ll do in next fight. this is now front and center in his mind. we ll see how this develops. major turmoil on top of team trump. and president trump has a new friends. and saturday night live s take on the syria missile strikes. we love trump, we do, we do. i just had an amazing week.
countries. more complicated because trump was so aggressive during his campaign about china. after the syria strike white house was owning the idea that the other message that the strike sent was to china who said we asked for your help on north korea we want you to exert more economic pressure but this president is willing to act alone. if you don t believe him look what he did in syria. the carrier group and they give the chinese a heads up, i assume that s an exlamation point. we ll put these assets in the region. we ve told north korea we won t negotiate any more. we told you to stop testing your missiles. here s john mccain on his view yes the middle east is a mess but his view on the number one strategic policy for the united states. the immediate crisis is not in the middle east. the most immediate crisis right now is this crazy fat kid who
kinds and all types. now these are the images that changed the president s mind. victim of a sirin gas attack the pentagon says was launched by bashar al assad. these here, let s take a look. these are the images of the message sent by the president in the form of 60 cruise missiles, 59 of them aimed at the airbase. red dots show you some of the damage. let me bring you up and show you, aircraft hangars. see these photos released by the pentagon show some of the destruction. that s one example. again, come over here you see much of the same, burnt out areas here, hardened shell u-see the poke marks where the missiles went in. the president of the united states trying to send a message to bashar al assad, to syria and moscow. was this a one time retaliation or is the united states on a new war footing? he won t stop here. if he needs to do more he ll do more. now what happens depends on how
administration took the public relations hit of obama looking weak and being broadly criticized for not being forceful enough on syria they decided that was still preferable to potentially being drawn into a quagmire. potentially being drawn into a broader war that would require troop commitment that we couldn t get out of and make the situation worse. this administration doesn t have answers to those questions of how you avoid those outcomes. whether it s a one off or not you re throwing a punch at bashar al assad, the first time the united states has directly attacked the regime. you have special operations forces and others inside syria helping to fight isis. two enemies now, two combatants twin borders of syria. this is a complicated one. without a clear policy where are we going. nikki haley today said something along the lines of assad can t be part of the solution. closer to the he must go language obama used but we don t
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