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What does mattis have to say? are we going to go after isis first? good. but how does that translate into peace in syria? >> they are all good questions. i'm channelling and hearing sean spicer say that the president doesn't telegraph what he wants to do in the future. how do you thread the needle? if you're secretary mattis, you do have a plan moving forward but don't want to telegraph it to the world. >> you cannot win at the negotiating table which you didn't win on the battlefield in syria. we're going to need to be tougher and the strikes start that. maybe we need more men on the ground o...

Strikes that exist seems at this moment implausible. >> right. there's russians everywhere there. so the potential for an accident, which we almost had in 2015 with our more limited air strikes with the russians and starting world war iii with them is very high. so i don't know -- it's interesting that trump said until yesterday that he doesn't telegraph what he's going to do and he likes to do things secretly. he's talking about an international coalition to take out al-assad with all of these terrible options. it's going to be interesting to see what they're considering, what other countries...

If you heard donald trump talk throughout the campaign, the reason why he's so successful as a negotiator, he doesn't take things off the table, he doesn't telegraph. he understands the consequences of various action. >> that is sean spicer defending the president's methods to greta van susteren. let's bring in joe watkins, rick tyler, and zir leerlina maxwell. should critics be giving more credit? joe, i'll throw this to you. do you think that what spicer says that there is actually a method to trump's madness here? >> yeah, he's certainly

You kept oil you wouldn't have isis, because that's where they made their money in the first place so we should have kept the oil. okay. maybe you'll have another chance. >> you unequivocally state this administration will not send more troops into iraq to, as the president puts it, take the oil. >> i'm not going to talk about what we may or may not do. president the is clear he doesn't telegraph forward taking options off the table. that's not a good negotiating skill. that's not how he works. there's a reason he's been successful negotiating, he does it in a way that doesn't telegraph to peo...

Oil? >> i'm not going to talk about what we may or may not do. i think the president has been very clear he doesn't telegraph forward what taking options off the table. that's not a good negotiating skill. that's not how he works. those are reasons he's been successful at negotiating, because he does it in a way that doesn't telegraph to people what he's going to take on or off the table. >> whether or not you are going to talk about what we may or may not do, the fact that that is on the table makes this actually not a hypothetical scenario anymore because that's policy. that's now policy. th...