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Chairman of homeland security committee. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> shepard: the president made this decision after seeing the pictures of the babies slaughtered. you know that this slaughter has been going on for seven years. the action of this brutal dictator didn't change. our actions changed. was it warranted and if so what the is warranted going forward? >> i definitely think this is an appropriate response. it's what president obama should have done after the first use of chemical weapons of the syrian people. should have been swift and decisive and would have ...

>> shepard: on this day in 1988, the soviets decided it was time to pull troops out of afgh afghanist afghanistan. the soviet union was stuck in a stalemate. they with drew from the country after eight years of bloody fighting against the insurgents that wanted to topple the pro soviet communist government there. the rebels had the support of the united states. it would take nearly a year until the last soviet soldiers left the country and headed out the kiber pass after the russian defense minister signed off on getting out of afghanistan 29 years ago today. should news break out, we'll break...

Kremlin. over the course of the last 24, 48 hours, all that has gone out the window. this is a president who is involved in setting a very bright -- yes, i'll use the expression red line in syria -- about the behavior of assad and his secretary of state and u.n. ambassador have taken on russia and talked about their involvement and complicity with the al-assad regime and attacks on civilians, a dramatic turn-around in trump foreign policy this week. >> shepard: have you learned anything about the next steps? the if then possibility. if assad carries out another attack like this, then what? >> ...

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In his own party like lisa murkowski and susan collins, a chance that he might lose the battle and he doesn't want to do that, shep. >> shepard: what are you hearing from lawmakers on that front? >> because this is going to cement a 5-4 decision for years, some people have said a generation. couldn't be that. judge thomas is in his early 70s. judge alito is 68. they won't be around for another 25 years, which is taken to be a generation. maybe a decade or more. so there's a lot of opposition. listen to what senator patty murray said about the president's potential choices. >> he's hoping to pu...