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President trump first ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike. what do you think of the president's move? >> chris, obviously, i think retaliatory strikes were warranted when we're talking about foreign vessels on the high seas, i think they're warranted against an american unmanned aircraft. what i see is iran steadily marching up the escalation chain. it started out with threats, went to attacks at sea and to an unmanned american aircraft. i fear we're going to see an attack on a u.s. ship or u.s. manned aircraft. this is exactly what we saw in the 1980s when iran, for four years, w...

President trump first ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike. what do you think of the president's move? >> chris, obviously, i think retaliatory strikes were warranted when we're talking about foreign vessels on the high seas, i think they're warranted against an american unmanned aircraft. what i see is iran steadily marching up the escalation chain. it started out with threats, went to attacks at sea and to an unmanned american aircraft. i fear we're going to see an attack on a u.s. ship or u.s. manned aircraft. this is exactly what we saw in the 1980s when iran, for four years, w...

Incremental escalation. we need to have a game changing action, and that is, no american boots on the ground. establish a safe zone. and to protect it, and to supply weapons to the right people in syria who are fighting for obviously the things we believe in. >> so, do these strikes provide enough pressure for these game changing actions in your opinion? >> i think the obama administration can see the same trajectory of the conflict that the israelis see, inside of syria. you know, moving up the escalation chain, using scud missiles against his own population and increasingly accusations of ch...

We didn't think -- we thought that he was deterrable. assad isn't like that historically. assad is a man who isn't deterred. he pushes red lines. and right now he's pushing obama's red line, and there's a real division on what does america do to respond and not move up our own escalation chain and get sucked into a conflict in a fuller sense. >> and you have just asked the million-dollar question. and we're going to get into it right after this. tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain bayer back & body's dual action formula includes aspirin, which blocks pain at the site. try the ...

Happened and keep assad from moving up the escalation chain. i think that's what the white house is asking now. how do you not get sucked into a conflict quickly where you're forced to escalate and do something that could make the situation worse and could also hurt the president politically. >> we shouldn't get stuck in a false binary influenced by the israeli air strike, that the choices here are what we're doing now versus direct u.s. military, a la no-fly zone. there are options and that's where we need to focus at the moment. >> what are some of those options? >> first of all, we have to ...