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I think the office -- being in office is different than being a civilian and reading about the stuff in the paper or even as a candidate. when you hear people asking that wag the dog theory, what do you think? >> the first thing i tell them is take a step back and recognize that president trump passed his first test on the world stage. he was challenged. he stood up. he was decisive. he moved quickly. i think he had excellent results. when we talk about previous comments he made, what he is faced with is a humanitarian crisis. had to send a msage that no longer are we going to lead from the ba...

That in the long run, our strategy has to be an isis first strategy, not an american first strategy. isis is the main target. isis is the main enemy. in that context, there's only so much we can do to weaken assad. because let's say we were to keep going on this path. the weaker assad gets, stronger isis gets. not tactically, because they're always fighting in the same area. but overall, you know, the two strongest military forces in syria are isis and assad. we're now in the next few weeks going to return, i assume, to what the trump administration's primary focus has been, the war against is...

Experience in places like iraq, afghanistan, yemen. you go from the dictator to chaos. >> go ahead. >> that's not what i was suggesting. i appreciate that. you are talking forced regime change. boy, have we learned some really bad lessons about doing that. with the power of diplomacy with forcing the russians to do some things with mr. assad, with information and perhaps with some type of federation -- i don't know. i'm not a politician. but i do know there might be a better way as opposed to forced regime change. don't misunderstand, i am not into a regime change. we have seen the power that ...

Families have suffered those same exact dead babies and who want to come here to be able to save the rest of their children, that's where you have the cynicism and the hypocrisy involved. we need a strategy. we need what he is going to do there long-term. >> jason, senator rand paul has been critical of the strike. i want to play something he said earlier. >> our founders in the original days believed that war should be declared by congress. before you get into the debate of whether we should or shouldn't, we should start out with the law. the law says that the president does not have the powe...

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