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nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this friday, august 5th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was removed. lawmakers also agreed to combat droughts that plague her home state of arizona. democrats are...

From syria is actually going to be slowed down so we don't turn that volatile land over to russia, iran, syria, and isis? >> this is one of those issues where literally across the spectrum there's agreement that we should not be precipitously withdrawing from syria, joe, and so i think that message has started to penetrate even into the inner of the white house. here i give a lot of credit to graham who's emerging as a trump whisperer if you will at least on this subject, and yes, from what i can hear from the pentagon side of things, there is a slow it down, let's be a little more measured he...

Of immediacy here, but let's also take a moment and think about the diplomatic aspect of this. wherever you go in the pentagon, they talk about a whole of government approach to north korea. secretary mattis and none of his top deputies, no one thinks there is just a military option to this. tillerson is also going to be there, rex tillerson, the secretary of state, he'll also be briefing and the key role that they want the chinese to play. that's true on the pentagon side, that's true on the state department side as well. taking a step back on this, it was mitch mcconnell, the senator, who re...

Here and what the trump doctrine really is. hence, speak loudly and carry a big stick. >> hans, what does patience being over mean in pentagon speak? >> that means they need to be patient, they need to be ready. pentagon officials are always thinking a couple steps ahead. at least what the political leaders are saying publicly. it's been three weeks, three or four weeks since this strategic patience was declared dead. what's interesting to me about the pence comments is he twinned it with syria and dropping the mother of all bombs. when you look at it from the pentagon side, the seriousness of...

Jared kushner had a quick infusion of knowledge from the pentagon side. >> right. >> then you have steve bannon who wants no u.s. action around the world. he's part of that nonglobalization. so what we are hearing is there has been tension between kushner, priebus, the chief of staff reince priebus, and steve bannon. what we are learning is the three of them had a meeting recognizing all the public reporting in recent days about infighting, who is up, who is down, who has more power, who is less. it was described as a long session among the three of them wanting to get on the same page. is tha...