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Put america first. >> i want to help all of our allies. but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. we cannot be the policemen of the world. >> but as commander-in-chief, trump acknowledged images of last week's gas attacks in syria add deep impact. >> i now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. >> in the span of a week trump has also changed his mind on the nato alliance. now viewing it as a tool to counter russian aggression in europe. >> i said it was obsolete. it's no longer obsolete. >> and abandoning his hard line stance on china. now ...

Will ripley, thank you for the reporting. >> all right, joining us now, democratic congressman elliott engle, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. i want to shift gears back from north korea to syria, because the breaking news this morning is our first look from the syrian leader bashar al assad, where he calls the notion that he staged a chemical attack against his own people a 100% fabrication, and he talked about the pictures we've all seen of dozens of children dead. he said how do we even know that those children are dead...

>> our priority remains the defeat of isis. isis represents a clear and present danger and immediate threat to europe and ultimately a threat to the united states homeland. the syrian regime should think long and hard before it again acts so recklessly in violation of international law against the use of chemical weapons. >> bill: he was stern yesterday. benjamin hall in turkey near the syrian border with more. benjamin. >> a strange calm seems to have come over syria since the major events last week. the gas attacks, the tomahawk strikes. people waiting to see if any real change will come fro...

Inconsistent from the campaign until now. >> aren't you giving me the definition of the ultimately unsophisticated person? >> i mean this is the problem. he didn't understand how hard foreign policy was. he didn't understand how hard health care was. he keeps saying things like nobody knew how hard health care was. actually, we all knew that. nobody knew how hard controlling north korea was. we did actually know that. so he's suddenly finding out all these things. but he said, i alone can fix it. he said i know more about isis than the generals. and, you know, now based on whoever last influen...

U.s. go from here as far as drawing additional red lines if there's another chemical weapons attack or if there are more barrel bomb attacks that, you know, these brutal attacks that kill a lot of civilians. should the u.s. be prepared to step up its military involvement in syria? >> i think what the administration is looking at is a response to the gas attacks and there's bipartisan support for a measured appropriate response to a given attack using gas. either through a barely bom or some other type of ordinance, anything that drops clhlorine. poison gas is not to be used and that's been an ...