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>> it is kind of hard to figure it out. on the one hand, i think donald trump want to show there is a new sheriff in town. he was clearly moved by these pictures that he saw. back in 2013, he tweeted constantly that obama should not go into syria and he said and i am quoting him now, "we should stay the hell out, the rebels are just as bad as a current regem." we know there there were horrific pictures back in 2013. it is hard to figure out how much obama had to do with what trump just did. >> he was a private citizen and his supporter says now peter berger, he's president of the united states...

Crimes tribunal and charged with war crimes and executed. you've heard that, phil? >> yeah. and i think peter's right. i think people who say that are dead wrong. people will send hate mail, i don't care. if you want the civil war to kojt, 400,000-plus people have died in syria. the president of the united states talked about the troij of children and infants dying. how many more do you want to die in a civil war? if you want that to happen you support the outster of assad. not only did we see disasters in iraq and egypt, we saw the rurge of a dictator. if you want security for people and if y...

We've been hearing repeated calls from the united nations about the need for more money. they simply do not have the funds needed to deal with the growing hum ing humanitarian cr. not just because of the battle with ramadi but this has been a crisis since isis barreled through and took over last summer. humanitarian organizations desperately need more funding to be able to provide for you aof the millions of families that have been internally displaced. >> arwa damon, we so appreciate the update this morning. thank you so much. isis has spread significantly in one year, going from 2014, the ...

Morphed into something that became a much more frequently used weapon for just all the bad guys in the region? >> i think that's a fair way to characterize the evolution over time. it's very easy when you get out on that slippery slope to say, look, here, we shouldn't just be focusing only on the international terrorists, what about the people supporting them? when we take the next step and start attacking them as an affiliated group, as if they were international terrorists themselves, we're inviting a lot of trouble. >> and it's trouble that peter berger of the new american foundation and cn...

Fair to say that it started and when it was being run by you was more narrow, more surgical and more directed against international terrorists, terrorists of global reach and m morphed into something that became a much more frequently used weapon for just all the bad guys in the region? >> i think that's a fair way to characterize the evolution over time. it's very easy when you get out on that slippery slope to say, look, here, we shouldn't just be focusing only on the international terrorists, what about the people supporting them? when we take the next step and start attacking them as an af...