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National security briefing as well last night. he's going to continue to play an active role in this administration until the president says he wants to move in a different direction. if the president didn't want him in that security council he wouldn't have been in the meeting last nice. diverse voices are good for the administration. >> i don't know that white nationalism is an example of diverse voices. that's not something that i think is just we should allow that in the argument, just for debate sake. i think it's important he's stepping aside because now we actually can have perhaps hope...

Be, for example, the pressure that is coming from some on the hill to get additional sanctions against russia as an enabler shows you just the range of what he is going to be considering. >> i want to bring my panel in. brian lan z-a and zerlina maxwell formal with the hillary clinton campaign and mali for the u.s. so i want to start with you and syria. two big things we saw yesterday. president trump saying assad has crossed the red line. he sees things in a different way and nikki haley said u.s. should be prepared to act alone. >> this is really important what they're saying. i was on just ...

Overall as they're trying to move forward, not just obviously on health care, but on so many other things including infrastructure and taxes, not wanting a distraction strax isn't so much a surprise. >> brian, when you look over the last few days, is this a broader showing that president trump is starting to move closer to the middle? the idea if devin nunes stayed in that position would this this sort of digging in. to step back shall let's open the kimono a little, isn't that what we've heard not just were democrats but lots of republicans saying this is what we'd like, the stephen bannon co...

Work together here. >> i want to bring my panel back in. i have a new guest, conservative column kristin tate. brian you surprised? >> i am. i am surprised, but my full confidence in the three people that are moving forward. the decision was made quickly. you move on and move on with the process and you let all the facts land where they land. >> was this the right move? >> we don't have all the facts yet. the investigation will continue. i have full confidence as well. i'm happy to here that tray gowdy is one of the three members that will taken over. we'll see what happened. >> the benghazi g...

Stengle say they are that closely tied. this is tricky because as you know, vladimir putin is one name he has not flipped on as of yet. >> that's true. one of the reasons assad felt emboldened enough to conduct this chemical attack was just right after we had said that secretary of state tillerson said, we're not a priority and given that and our relationship with russia, it almost seemed like we were willing to let russia handle it. i do think -- i think president trump was probably careful not to tread on that just yet. maybe they're trying to figure it out. there are clearly things -- they'...