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Up on the battlefield because of this. in turkey, at the pentagon, on capitol hill, and i want to start with keir simmons on the ground in southern turkey near the border with turkey. keir, i understand that a little bit earlier this morning you were close to some of where this assault whas happening. what are you hearing and seeing? >> that's right. this is a conflict that has kind of escalated through the day and actually we just heard a martor from the syrian side land in that direction. we heard in the last hour from the governor, you can hear the artillery fire there, we heard from the go...

Kinds of problems as early. i think he wanted to focus on job creation. but he's got a great national security team. i thought secretary tillerson was perfect when he said look, either the russians collaborate and knew this was happening whether russians were duped and they're just incompetent. but they have to choose one or the other, and i think that second tillerson is going to be very firm tomorrow and say to the russians there is a path forward where we look work together but that path cannot include assad and new, the russian state, have to decide which team you're on. very telling by th...

All of these years of negligent is close to having nuclear weapons within intercontinental capability to reach the u.s., i think he's also made the decision that after a year of being lied to where both president obama and secretary of state kerry claim things that were just plain false that assad really is totally unacceptable. it's very telling by the way, martha, in the entire world, the only countries that publicly objected to the president hitting syria were syria itself, iran, north korea and russia, nobody else, so putin has to feel a little bit isolated at the moment. jackie: u.s. is h...

Kinds of problems as early. i think he wanted to focus on job creation. but he's got a great national security team. i thought secretary tillerson was perfect when he said look, either the russians collaborate and knew this was happening whether russians were duped and they're just incompetent. but they have to choose one or the other, and i think that second tillerson is going to be very firm tomorrow and say to the russians there is a path forward where we look work together but that path cannot include assad and new, the russian state, have to decide which team you're on. very telling by th...

Brookings institution center for middle east policy. his new book "unthinkable iran: the bomb and american strategy" com comes out on tuesday. ken, ayman was talking about the impact of a strike on syria on iran. you write extensively about the country and to what ayman was saying in his report. >> well, i think that obviously -- look, we've got to recognize there is the potential for some form of retaliation. by the same token, when you look at the main actors who would want to retaliate, iran, syria itself, hezbollah, each of them has a whole lot of other things on their plate. neither of th...