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>> let's talk about policy as you wish. let's talk about tillerson, switching from five days ago hands off to we're going to get rid of assad. how do you read that, positively or negatively? >> well, it's head-spinning -- >> but it's different. so what do you make of the difference, of the change? >> so i think donald trump watched tv, and he saw -- >> are you with him on this? are you with him on this switch towards an interventionist mode right now, which is we're going to help dump this royal family of syria? >> absolutely not, right? this is a return to the kind of hubris that donald trump...

Security team to be briefed in a makeshift situation room. roughly 30 minutes later, the president delivered his remarks on the strike, which he said served the national security interests of us. >> it is in the vital national security interest of the united states to prevent the spread and use of chemical dedly chemical weapons. >> largely positive with the support from germany, france, israel and the uk. russia was quick to condemn the strike. russia, itself, bears key responsibility for syria's use of chemical weapons in the first place. four years ago in a deal with the united states, the ...

Now supports president trump's decision when he opposed a similar proposal under president obama when obama did what you want him to do, senator, propose it to congress, and congress didn't act. here's mitch mcconnell. >> senator, you have opposed military intervention in syria in the past as recently as 2013. what makes last night different? >> let me tell you the difference. secretary kerry, i guess in order to reassure the left-leaning members of his own party, said it would sort of be like a pinprick. but this was a strike that was well planned, well executed, went right to the heart of th...

Assad, who is not a good guy, but we're backing people to fight assad. we have no idea. look at hillary clinton, what happened with libya. >> somehow syria and world war iii don't go along great to me. we can't be fighting assad, and when you're fighting assad, you're fighting russia. you're fighting a lot of different groups. but we can't be fighting everybody at one time. >> you can't fight them both. you got to pick your guy. you got to pick your guy. and i'll tell you who i'd pick. >> but she's trigger-happy, and she wants to start shooting wars in syria. what the hell are we doing with sy...

>> i was told by a u.s. official that was very well briefed on this that it was a happy coincidence that it was during the meeting with the chinese president, that the u.s. will act with its military, will not waste time. and i think president trump was happy to show that at that time. in syria what the situation is right now remains unclear. is it now a policy to go after bashir al assad? it doesn't seem to be. to back the rebels to go after assad? that doesn't seem to be the case. it seems to be an attempt to respond to a specific incident to say we will not tolerate the