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Headed to korea and before we did the syria strike the president was talking and secretary of state tillerson was talking about north korea. and there's no easy -- there's really no military answer to north korea. there's deterrents in place. what the administration has lined up is a one-two challenge with dealing with syria behind syria, iran, and then on the other side of the world, north korea. so there's enough military action here to keep wheels spinning and keep h.r. mcmaster spinning for a long, long time. >> the other big factor in syria is that it's a home base for isis. today egyptia...

To get involved as a player in this new game of remaking syria. i think that's what they're looking for in the kremlin. >> that's what they're looking for in the kremlin and that's what we're trying to figure out here. bill cohen, weigh in, i want to share sound of what secretary of state rex tillerson and u.n. ambassador nikki haley said over the weekend. it's the mixed messages we're trying to parse through. take a look. >> we're hopeful we can navigate a political outcome in which the syrian people, in fact, will determine bashar al assad's fate anhis legitimacy. >> no way do we see peace i...

Confirmed by the senate but on top of that among the other individuals is, well, steve bannon, the chief strategist to president trump, who had formerly been serving on the national security council and that'so longer the case. he, jared kushner, reince priebus, all took part in thi sort of gathering for about an hour late last week at mar-a-lago at the property to try to bury the hatchet in terms of the infighting existing between the three individuals. sources familiar with that meeting close to the president tell us the president's satisfied wit the way that meeting went and sources close t...

>> actually, see, a lot of myself in you, bill. >> we've got to begin today with the showdown over syria. the trump administration calling out russia over its alliance with bashar al assad. we got a great pam this morning to break all of it down. i want to take you first to the white house, where nbc's peter alexander is live. peter, how exactly does the administration's tough talk set the stage for rex tillerson to head to moscow later this week? we know rex tillerson has a long and strong relationship with russia, with vladimir putin. >> yeah. we'll see whether that earns him a meeting with ...

The korean peninsula. the move is in direct response to north korea's recent ballistic missile test. joining me from seoul, south korea, nbc's janice mackie frayer. what does this mean? is this somehow a signal that the president is taking a more aggressive position on foreign policy, at least as it relates to north korea? >> well, stephanie, tension here is nothing new, but there was different sort of anxiety triggered by the u.s. strike on syria, widely perceived in this region as a message to kim jong-un that the u.s. is willing to strike at north korea if need be. the u.s. military ordered...