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Decisiveness and strength, it was good timing. but there's two big questions, why now and what now. why did he decide to change his position, radically different from what he has said in the past. children have been killed by chemical weapons in syria before and he was adamantly opposed to it. then he saw these pictures and decided to act this quickly so that's the first question, why now, what changed. of course the other question is, and i'm sure the chinese are wondering along with the rest of the world, what does this mean? what is the policy? what is rex tillerson going to say in moscow? ...

Welcome back, i'm sheinelle jones here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. at the half hour, here's what we're monitoring. police in sweden say the man they have arrested for that deadly truck attack is a 39-year-old native of uzbekistan. authorities believe he was at the wheel of the stolen beer truck that struck and killed four pedestrians yesterday before crashing into a department store. earlier today sweden's prime minister visited the scene to lay flowers at a makeshift memorial. he declared monday a day of mourning for sweden, a time for the nation to grieve with families of the vi...

President donald trump's approval rating is hovering around 40%. 21 points lower than president obama's in 2009, but after thursday's air strikes in syria, which have been generally well received on both sides of the aisle, could those numbers turn around? let's bring in larry sabato, author of "trump, the 2016 election that broke all the rules." good afternoon to you. >> thank you, sheinelle. >> in the past presidents have enjoyed a spike in popularity after taking military action. why is that, in your opinion, and could it happen here? >> well, it's the old rally around the flag effect. we'v...

Attacking government installations in syria will put an end to the suffering? >> that's not what i'm certain about, the president has the ability because you very well know operating there is no border there. we have folks that are operating there, it does worry me that we have a lot of great powers, turkey, israel, russia, us, iran, hezbollah is playing in the same battle space, i'm worried about deacon flexion and the greatest explanation of conflict. this is the second administration that is offering from a third of administration 16 years ago. it is important the american people via the re...

Military and the dictator bashar assad and his attitude toward syria changed. this afternoon just before 3:00 eastern time the secretary of state came to the cameras and informed us that the united states is working to build a coalition. a coalition to retaliate against bosch are al-assad and the syrian regime which has been carrying out this campaign which has left that more than half a million syrians dead in a civil war that stretched on for more than seven years. last night high-level white house officials came together. today members of the joint chiefs came together. the president was br...