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More action in this attack yesterday. this is a very measured attack. yes, they fired 59 cruise missiles but it's all at one air base as general keane mentioned. assad has six air bases and could have gone at after command and control and the president personally. the president just decided to go after the one base specifically tied to the chemical attack in northern iraq and the civilians there. mattis is one of the hawks in this regard and steve bannon, one of the american firsters and who is one of the people pushing during the campaign the idea that we shouldn't get involved with other cou...

Not going to micromanage and back-bench those guys today. it was a free-for-all. do you still believe the russians interfered with the election? do you believe it happened? he pulled it all back. >> the question is i would have ordered him to talk to the russians. he could have said i would have ordered him to talk to all the countries because that's part of what he was saying. was he saying he would have ordered him to talk about the sanctions because there was a half-step away from that. he is very good at creating the gray areas. >> i think he is good at creating a big enough space that he ...

Food bank in his home state of washington. >> his mother still lives here in town and so just the fact that he wanted to come back and be involved in the community he grew up in. >> but his long track record centered on a strong view of the reality of using military force. in 2013 he cautioned on the calls to force out syrian president bashar al assad. >> if the americans go in, if the americans take leadership, if the americans take ownership of this, it's going to be a full throated very, very serious war. >> already impacting trump's views on torture and water boarding. >> i was surprised. ...

Star, he can kiss them if he wants to and that makes this more interesting and shocking. he's not saying look at that woman, she's a ten. he's saying this is what i have done to women in the past and will do again the. >> you can judge the magnitude on this by the fact that the trump campaign responded very quickly with the statement that included the word apologize. so let's break this down into two parts. he's apologizing if anyone was offended which at "the washington post" you know that's a nonapology apology. >> that's right. he apologized to people who were offended, which obviously leav...

Bottom line. >> so joining me now the editor in chief of the washington free beacon. matthew thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> let's take a half step back because when everyone is waking up and realing this "washington post" piece about talk to this broker convention what would lead to a brokered convention? what would that look like? >> the way that the political analysts that i trust describe it is right now the republican field is so large, and the delegate allocation pool in the different states are so complex that you could have a situation if all of the candidates rema...