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>> shepard: let's bring in a.b. stoddard from realclearpolitics.com. if this is true, what is this? >> senator graham describes this as someone that came from the outside, doesn't understand these are checks and balances built into the structure of our government and an important part of his job where he's not allowed to ask these questions and make these demands of people about investigations. if he has nothing to hide, he's still making a big mistake. it's crossing a line and going way over a line to ask people to come out and publicly disavow or, you know, deny the existence of certain part...

Better eggs. >> shepard: secretary of state rex tillerson's visit to russia now just days after president trump order strikes on a syrian air field. russia is an ally of the dictator bashar al-assad and supporting him in his country's civil war. emily good den is here from realclearpolitics.com. welcome. >> thanks. >> shepard: a loot of movement on this. sounds like the "wall street journal" said the russians tried to cover it up at minimum with a disinformation campaign. what does that tell us? >> yeah, a lot of questions here. you saw sean spicer with a lot of them. they were careful to say ...

Areas that benefit the united states. this all coming one week ahead of that visit, shep, as the secretary of state speaking at length about syria previous to this saying that the u.s. is already in discussions, talking about a post al-assad syria and as you played leading into our discussion here, that the u.s. is leaving a number of options on the table in responding to this. shep? >> shepard: thanks. a.b. stoddard with realclearpolitics.com. this story just breaking. president obama was given as a list of bad options. he chose the bad option that was to remain out of this conflict largely. ...

Democrats will move forward to win elections from two years from now. he has to put some numbers on the table so far it's talk. i expect him to try to prosecute some of these policies, but he's promised so much. he's got to deliver on a lot of that. >> shepard: you have to get past government in washington to get anything done. others will tell you that ain't easy. dan henninger, thank you. >> shepard: more on president trump's deepening rift with the intelligence community. as we reported, president trump went on a twitter tirade this morning after reports surfaced against a closed-door conve...