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>> first, i'll talk about the syria question. den, certainly something that will come up. the president is committed to defeating isis. that is our primary goal and function of being there. we want to see that happen. the president also wants the see the partners in the region step up and do more. both militarily and financially. that's going to be something that i can imagine will be raised and we'll keep you posted on that front. when it comes to director pompeo, it is absolutely outrageous that he would not move through quickly. he's extremely qualified for the position. "the washington pos...

Welcome back. the president's national security council scheduled to meet again on the syria question. the trump administration said it is almost certain that the syrian regime used chemical weapons on its own people last week. with that came a public indictment of russia, ambassador nikki haley saying russia is repeatedly blocking action on the regime and repeatedly failing to keep its promises. >> our allies know who did this. russia can complain all it wants about fake news, but no one is buying its lies and its cover-ups. russia was supposed to guarantee that assad wouldn't use chemical we...

Pen. it wasn't until he said that. but in recent weeks she's been distancing herself from trump particularly on the syria question. so i think should she win the runoff election would the policies be call into question. president trump has kind of walked back on his anti-eu, anti-ea nato stance. these are ideas that le pen sticks very firmly so. as she sees president trump moving a little bit towards the center, i think it remains to be seen whether as a french president she would do the same or would that put the u.s. and france on odds of foreign policy. given that france is one of the close...

Aggression. >> president trump talking about how great his staff is, because he can relying so heavily on his staff to carry out his foreign policy and his military mission as well, as you expect a commander in chief would but perhaps more so than past commanders in chief. in the aftermath of the mother of all bombs dropped in afghanistan the white house and president trump would not say if he himself authorized that, saying instead we given total authorization to the military to carry out these strikes so i think that's one reason why we really don't know where president trump stands because ...

Assault? there is talk of russian airplanes involved. that is a tricky part, presumably, the pentagon knows this. let me bring up one of another point no one has brought up. the worst refugee crisis and the hair freaked history of the world, according to the u.n., is of syria. barack obama needs to answer that. it would change people's view of donald trump, what ended, somewhat, if you were to come forward and say we are going to relieve these people of this horrible stuff. it would be pretty hard to paint him as heartless if that's what he did. let's just be smart about what we do. >> martha:...