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Clear plan for how to proceed in syria? ben: not at all. what we saw was a reaction to the use of chemical what he phones that's of us supported. but we did not see a coherent policy on how to deal with the civil war and also deal with isis. chris: there were mixed messages from the administration. haley is talking about depotion assad, tillerson talking about taking out isis first. do you have a clear sense of what the administration policy is? john: i think it's to send a message to assad and the russians and the north koreans that there is a new man in charge our foreign policy. i applaud h...

As sequencing of the defeat of isis first. what you have in syria is a very destructive cycle of violence. perpetuated by isis obviously but also by this regime and their iranian and russian sponsors. >> bill: the top priority in syria is defeating isis but assad is in the cross hairs. what to do? a carl higbie, good morning to you. was mcmaster on point there? go after isis and it remains the first priority? go ahead. >> yes, you're 100% right. so is mcmaster. the issue here is we fought a battle of appeasement for the last eight years. if we negotiate and apologize they'll lay down arms and ...

Move to depose assad? lt. gen. mcmaster: i think as you saw with the strike, there has to be a degree of simultaneous activity as well as sequencing of the defeat of isis first. what you have in syria is a destructive cycle of violence perpetuated by isis obviously and also by this regime and their iranian and russian sponsors. what we have to be able to do is work together with our allies and partners to help resolve this conflict. and the resolution of the conflict will entail each of the elements you are talking about, the defeet of isis, and it has to be a significant change in the nature ...

And the international community move to depose assad? lt. gen. mcmaster: i think as you saw with the strike, there has to be a degree of simultaneous activity as well as sequencing of the defeat of isis first. what you have in syria is a destructive cycle of violence perpetuated by isis obviously and also by this regime and their iranian and russian sponsors. what we have to be able to do is work together with our allies and partners to help resolve this conflict. and the resolution of the conflict will entail each of the elements you are talking about, the defeet of isis, and it has to be a s...

We've got to have regime change. we have the secretary of state saying we are going to do isis first. the fact is, we are going to do isis first. we are not going to have a policy of active regime change but we are telling the russians, iranians, hezbollah, and assad there are limits to what we will tolerate and that i think will help to restrain what looked to be an unassailable and unstoppable winning strategy in the part of a sawed. the future is in limbo in the way it hadn't been before. that's a big achievement. >> bret: there is a lot of parsing on what's being said about regime change g...