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Former u.s. commandant of the u.s. war college. when we look at that resolution, should it be edited? is it not the right place where the strategy should be derived from when dealing with syria? >> that's a good question. you know, you can have memoranda and policies and you can have the reality of conditions on the ground, the phrase we use is ground truth. and the truth here is after this latest diabolical, evil strike, the syrians really no longer have to use chemical weapons anymore. what's missing from the narrative all today is the fact why did the syrians do this? why did they violate i...

Thanks for staying with us. the u.s. and its allies say their -- five years later here in 2018, the unanimously adopted agreement that included russia has not achieved its stated goal to, and i'll quote from it right now, to prohibit syria from using, developing, producing, otherwise acquiring, stockpiling or retaining chemical weapons or transferring them to other states or nonstate actors. to talk about this let's bring in major general robert scales,

>> so you did like it? >> yeah. but that's not the question. the question is do large doses of fire power fix a strategic problem and that really is where i think we come up short. >> if you can here, major general, what should we do next militarily? >> i think we're pretty much done militarily. there's only one footprint we have left in syria, in eastern syria around the euphrates river, 2,000 americans buttressed by kurds who basically control syria's access to their own oil fields. i think being able to hold on to a military footprint in the area is necessary as we begin to see the civil wa...

Seconds to 11:58 because of the looming threat of nuclear war as well as global warming. the announcement comes at a moment when tensions between north korea and south korea seem to be decreasing a bit in the spirit of the olympics. north korea issued a surprise announcement last night urging koreans to make a breakthrough for unification. just as north korean hockey players and officials arrived in the south for olympic training. i'm joined by robert scales, a retired army major general and mira hooper at the china center of yale law school. i want to start with this doom's day clock. do you ...

More than half an hour of that, for a second notification to be sent out, leaving hawaiians to sit in terror for nearly 40 minutes. joining me now is major general robert scales, former commandant of college and former msnbc analyst. bob, good to talk to you. >> hi, ali. >> 40 minutes, this could be over. i don't know what to do. this is not one of the things where we are used to nuclear drills in the way americans used to be. that's a lot of time to go by. what in your opinion should have happened here? >> oh, so difficult to unpack. we know you don't even go to the bathroom without invoking ...