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There was no strategic thinking behind it and no big strategic shift. i do think one promising thing is we're never going to be in the business of regime change anytime soon. we should be in the business of defending some basic norms of civilization. 100 years ago, the u.s. entered world war i, thousands were gassed to death. we can be against gassing and so in that sense this action was a useful action and we should just be in the business of trying to make sure when people fight, they behave with some basic level of human decency. so we had a little thing in this, but i'm not sure a big shif...

Putin he would be flexible. i don't think we know. we don't know whether this was a tactical strike or a strategic shift. and we have the secretary of state suggesting to us, no, no, no. there's nothing to see here. this was just a one off. >> still isis. >> still about isis, not about assad. then we have nikki haley suggesting, no, things seem to have changed. i think we'll have to wait to see what dops evelops in the ne weeks. >> rich, i want you to respond to this because it's a thought that jonah goldberg used with lindsey graham there. he writes this. a positive interpretation of these la...

Rubble. what is clear is that isis has so far failed to win the battle there, and is under increasing pressure around the region. hundreds of u.s. and coalition air strikes have helped drive the isis militants back in both iraq and syria. still isis scrolls a huge amount of territory and is far from defeated. this weekend, kurtdish fighters say isis insurgents even launched a suicide attack from neighboring turkey. turkey has long viewed the pro american curds. >> and from isis to the call ban, we're learning some new information about a deadly taliban attack on a compound housing four aid wor...

As funding requests for fighting isis and ebola. peter, where are we with this little and with the funding? >> reporter: heather, the bill that will be worth more than $1 trillion might not be done until next week, because house and senate leaders are -- not to drag this out and not to shut down the government, because it could cast a shadow on the to-do list for the newly minted republican senate in january. >> i don't think it good for the congress, good for the republican party or for the people to be bogged down in an endingle endi endless budget debate. i want us to have a clean slate so ...

Home for the holidays, the 6$6. billion the white house wants to stop ebola, the $5 billion the white house says is needed for the fight against isis in iraq. heather? >> that is a lot of money when you talk about it like that. so is congress going to give the president the money that he wants? >> we don't have to wait along to find out. but with the request for isis funding, the president also has to act for a renewed authorize to use force against isis. and at least one newly minted senator in congress says that the senate needs to be briefed more and more involved in the process. >> i think...