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Syria only after a typical weekend morning tweet storm attacking "the washington post" and fraizing fox news. in true trumpian fashion he blamed the crisis he's facing on barack obama. if president obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand the syrian disaster would have ended long ago, exclamation point. animal assad would have been history. joining me now colonel jack jacobs, natasha bertrand and rosa brooks. colonel jack, i will read you the update. he's added to that, many dead including women and children. mind is chemical attack in syria. area of atrocity is in lockdown making ...

Is not a country that we want to get into a shooting war with. i don't expect anything much to happen except something purely symbolic. i do think trump's advisers, they don't like this but they know perfectly well there's not much for us to do and we don't have the capacity to get into the kind of diplomatic surge that is what we should be doing right now. >> natasha you've been reporting so much on the russia interference with our election, donald trump's extreme deference towards vladimir putin. this is the first time we heard him tweet about putin in a negative light. what is the benefit o...

Vladimir putin is one of, if not the top ally of assad, the president of syria, it was very in effective. it was a strike that was completely divorced from any kind of coherent policy. it was based more on emotion than an actual strategic long-term effective approach to dealing with this conflict in syria. whether or not they actually start to come out now and be tougher on russia in terms of its support for the assad regime and, you know, the fact that it's in there with iran and they're all cooperating to bolster his regime, that remains to be seen. whether or not it's actually effective is ...

Not always, does from time to time get horrified at humanitarian disasters and i think responds in a visceral way so i think he was easily convinced probably by kelly to write that tweet. putin probably recognizes there's nothing in it but public relations. i think that trump probably did feel very strongly about it. >> why do you suppose things seem to have been deteriorating so rapidly in syria or isn't just that we haven't been paying attention to it? >> we haven't paid much attention to it but the situations of the rebels have been deteriorating for quite some time. one of the reasons why ...

And other humanitarian disaster for no reason whatever. donald trump was recently saying as tuesday that he wanted to pull out completely in syria and now he's not only tweeting about what's happening there but he's invoked the name of vladimir putin in a negative way, something he's never done. >> since he made the comment about pulling out from syria, the central command commander who's responsible for that region said, no, bad idea. and i think that the -- the tweet involving putin is of real interest. trump has been disinclined to say anything bad about putin. that has all the fingerprints...