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And predictably: Trump went out spouting lies, as he has done non-stop since becoming president and as he has done his whole life… WASHINGTON, January 20./TASS/. Donald Trump released a farewell address on his final day in office as President of the United States, saying he was proud to have started no new wars. “I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no new wars,” Donald Trump said. “As a result of our bold diplomacy and principled realism, we achieved a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East. Nobody believed it could happen. The Abraham...

I'm also on the house foreign affairs committee. we've held a number of hearings on syria in the middle east and i can tell you that trump administration has no strategy. two weeks ago they signaled they were okay with assad in power. last week he attacks assad. this week his advisers give conflicting signals on whether they want regime change or not. we cannot have this strategic confusion coming out of the white house. >> do you want, before there's any additional military action against bashar al assad's regime, any of his military targets, for example, do you want congress, both the house ...

Who was sent a message by the strikes? it seems like it could be a long list, russia, iran, turkey, where do you think it goes? >> look, they also just issued a statement from the so-called joint operations center which is russia, iran, and obviously damascus. they're saying by the way the u.s. has crossed red lines by attacking syria. from now on we'll respond to anyone, including america, if it attacks syria and crosses the red lines. the bottom line of all this. the message was received loud and clear. if you care about somebody you don't send flowers, you send cruise missiles. that message...

United states crossed redlines by attacking syria. from now on, we will respond to anyone, including america, if it attacks syria. secretary of state rex tillerson heads to moscow tomorrow amid these tensions. can he convince russia to rethink its support for bashar al-assad? >> i think the russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for bashar al-assad's behavior. the alternative explanation that the russians put forth is not plausible. not only is it not plausible, we know from our own information and open-source information that their alternative explanation is simply...

Our constitution does not allow the president to engage in acts of war without congressional authorization, and congress has only authorized two types of conflicts that the president can engage in. go after terrorists with military force and deal with the threat of iraq. attacking syria, a country that did not attack the u.s., was not authorized. what the president was illegal. >> so with that said then, if the president does this again, he carries out military action without consulting congress, what will you do? what options do you have? >> unfortunately, the republicans do control congress....