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And actually it struck me as what you do when you actually can't think of anything terribly creative to do. >> let's turn to syria. there's quite a bit of coming out of there on this hour. doctors without borders reporting that camps on the syrian/turkish border are being pummeled with barrel bombs. president trump tweeting russia, syria and iran are on their way to killing thousands of innocent civilians in the idlib province. don't do it. turkey is working hard to stop this carnage. aside from just tweeting, do we know the status of any other u.s. diplomacy efforts in this region? and isn't ...

Authorities. so please, let me know what's changed. >> congressman, what has changed? >> the approval authorities is huge. they have put the soldiers on the battlefield in charge of those decisions. they pushed those decisions down. and by the way, what has changed, general, and you should know this, is that they have allowed the special capability forces to go down range in places they were not allowed before. it was, as i said, it wasn't this huge and significant difference other than we know that leverages up the fighting capability of those troops. if you talk to the soldiers who have been...

Is -- >> that's a key point. i just want to reinforce that. the idea is there's some vision of this in which there's some air strikes that bically say, don't do this again. and what you're saying is his own incentives are such that if he feels the need to use chemical weapons or wants to use chemical weapons to keep himself in power, he's going to be undeterred by -- >> we have to remember, not just him. he's not irrelevant, but he's a relatively minor figure at this point. he's got the top of the military food chain is running the country. >> the point is that the air force of the syrian gove...

The iraqi leadership recognized they made a mistake. we need to figure how do it in a systematic and safe manner for the personnel, the american personnel on the ground and probably require increased presence to get their national forces back up to fighting capability. consistent fighting capability. >> how big a presence? how large a presence do you think the u.s. should have in iraq? >> we're going back to the military leaders and asking them that question. i will say that some of the -- that there are bright spots in the training we did while there. their version of special forces have done...

Defense cuts, the president was working for the taliban. >> president obama is doing something that america's enemies, the taliban, al qaeda have been unable to do, which is to decimate the fighting capability of this nation. >> if you ask liz cheney what with all this pro al qaeda taliban sympathizing, you can't blame the crazies. here's how she explained the all american phenomenon. >> people are uncomfortable with having for the first time ever i think a president who seems so reluctant to defend the nation overseas. >> liz cheney does not just argue her point of view, she boils up a stew o...