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Disturbing. >> for more than two years, the russians have protected the regime of syrian president bashar al-assad even amidst mounting evidence like this video released by a syrian aid group today that the syrian government continues to bomb its own people. pounding civilians in the suburb outside damascus. now there is a rising concern following the defeat of isis that the syrian civil war is turning into a proxy fight between the u.s. and russia putting the lives of 2,000 american troops on the ground in syria at risk. overnight in eastern syria, the u.s. military responded with overwhelmin...

There was a massive air strikes with gun ships, f15, f22 and marine artillery. all u.s. jets available in the area killed 100 fighters. 20 to 30 rounds landed five foot ball fields from u.s. troops one u.s. allied fighter was hurt. american military officials called their russian counterparts on a special hotline. they had been making similar calls all week. the russians reassured the americans that no attack was imminent. the pentagon believes the russian-backed forces wanted the take back former isis oil fields in the area now guarded by u.s.-backed syrian fighters. how easily the syrian con...

Argument, and that he is racist, as you've heard, obviously, and that his views on immigration are un-american. that's the ground they want to fight on. they want to make this a proxy fight over his views on immigration. they don't want to take him on on jobs or how the market is doing. and so, that's the bed here. there's a lot of energy in the democratic base, political base, leading up in this election year, leading up to 2020, about where were you, did you stand up to trump and by proxy, the republicans? so, i think that's what's driving a lot of this right now, and i think this may be the...

Senior democratic aide, we have not talked to republicans since donald trump became president. we really don't deal with each other. so they're kind of flying by each other here. the democrats are incensed about what the president said, his vulgar remarks on immigration. that added heat to the fire here. they're concerned about d.r.e.a.m.ers, they believe this something that hit have been done a while ago. and the republicans are trying to bribe democrats saying we're going to pass this children's health insurance. i don't know how they get out of their to this to be honest. >> i think the big...

Terms of this new polling is this immigration issue, compromise, realizing who we are as a country of immigrants, being compassionate about how we look at immigrants versus demagoguery, nativism, scare mongering and fear of the other, this is the proxy fight of the trump presidency. that's what's really playing out. you see it in the disconnect between those two. >> daiftd chalian, when john kelly says the president is very, very flexible. i mean like clay that immediately hardens. this is what the problem is. flexibility is generally seen as an asset, a good thing to be open-minded. the probl...