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In a tweet sunday, president trump actually criticized vladimir putin. in this case, slamming putin's backing of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. that's on top of the toughest sanctions yet of russian oligarchs. as for china, in spite of proposing 150 billion in tariffs and the opening shots of a trade war, the president tweeted, quote, president xi and i will always be friends, no matter what happens with our dispute on trade. and somewhere in all of this are people. in the united states, uncertainty for thousands of farmers, workers and investors in a stock market which just saw its worst ...

Confidence code for girls" katty kay. plus washington correspondent for cnbc, kayla. thank you for joining us this sunday night. catty, i want to start with you to put this all in global perspective particularly as we learned of the alleged attack in syria this morning now. we know that president trump, last time he was confronted with something like this, launched strikes against syria, a move that the obama administration declined to make. what is your sense of the significance of what we have learned this morning and how intensely the u.s. should respond? >> well, i think the president's tw...

Backing of syrian dictator bashar al-assad. that's on top of the toughest sanctions yet of russian oligarchs. as for china, in spite of proposing 150 billion in tariffs and the opening shots of a trade war, the president tweeted, quote, president xi and i will always be friends, no matter what happens with our dispute on trade. and somewhere in all of this are people. in the united states, uncertainty for thousands of farmers, workers and investors in a stock market which just saw its worst quarter since 2015. and in syria, people dying and struggling to breathe after an alleged chemical att...

Has to be done through regular order. i think those conditions should be able to be met by republican republicans, so i think there's a possibility, but as josh was saying, they have not been able to string together five days of message discipline and that's a problem. >> melissa: josh, we just showed the big board and so much of those wins on wall street have been predicated on this idea. number one is they rolled back on business, but the other is the idea that folks in washington have been assuring ceos, people on wall street, all kinds of folks that they have tax reform under control and t...

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