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Why weren't we invited? >> we should have been. there's a vacuum that has been creat created. it's been filled by the russians, the iranians and the turks. we don't want to own this problem. we can't afford it. we're concerned it's getsing worse than better. the good news is, isis almost destroyed in syria. the bad news is you have this assad problem and there's no easy solution. >> we'll keep watching. the president promising some sort of announcement in the next one to two days on how we'll respond. we're watching the dow. so is the president. he just mentioned it at that cabinet meeting. so...

>> yes, absolutely. we heard from his top officials in his administration who it seemed were having a hard time articulating what the trump doctrine or what the next plan is for syria, and maybe that suggests there is no plan. this was a one-off that sent a message, and by the way, basically a day later assad was flying flights out of that airfield doing more attacks, not chemical, but more deadly attacks on his people, so maybe it was a symbolic gesture that doesn't really have long term repercussio repercussions. >> well, i mean, it does set the table if the president wants to use it. for hi...

Something against the american soldiers. is this something we should be concerned about? bret: the truth is you can't solve your isis problem without solving your assad problem and s vice versa. one depend on the other for its legitimacy. assad's base of support -- i'm standing between you and isis. what is it that stands up isis in syria and the rest of the arab world in we have two problems in syria, one is assad and one is isis. there will be tactical complications.al but the russians have more to fear from our air force than we have to fear from theirs. paul: what should the trump administ...

>> well, it's clear to me with what we've been saying for the last 24 hours after the attack it's going to take a serious provocation for us to repeat what we did last night. look, as sad as this is, anderson, we want to park the assad problem over here, just let it sit, while we solve what we think is the more high priority problem, which is isis. so the strike yesterday is in essence our telling assad, settle down. we're not going anywhere, and we're going to turn our attention back to problem number one, which is the assad estate. >> republicans who want to see regime change and want much m...

It is going to be a festering sore for a very long time. but i think, frankly, at best, we're going to have to handle this sequentially. park the assad problem. work on isis. and then go from there. >> how difficult -- the level of russian involvement in syria, it seems like it is even more complicated now than it was during the obama administration before russia got involved. having them on the ground and iran as well, it's much more three dimensional battlefield. >> exactly. again, i would have been right where senator mccain was earlier on your show three years ago, four years ago when ever...