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People and a response to the government, but it was also a message to russia in terms of its support for assad. it could go after russia's support for assad. you can put more sanctions on russia, you can shame them at the united nations, but is there any action that's large enough that would make a difference against russia that president trump would be willing to support, i'm not necessarily sure, but that's something they'll be talking about tomorrow. >> josh, we have seen strong language from both the u.s. and russia, trump saying big price to pay, russia threatening most serious consequenc...

Has limited control at this point. and poisoned gas can be an effective way of forcing people to submit. and i think he saw that the price was one he was unwilling to pay, and i think that's a really unfortunate lesson the world has sent not only to syria, but to any other regime that might be thinking about this. and in a larger sense we need to be thinking about what comes next. and how it looks as if assad is fundamentally winning the war in syria, we have to think about what a post war syria is going to be like, we should be having negotiations to help resolve that, the u.s. is indispensab...

Will have a long-term impact on the policy or assad's calculations, but i disagree in the sense that i do think you're going to see something surgical and pointed from this administration in response. >> thank you both. >> i don't disagree with elise either, but if we're waiting on president trump to see pictures of atrocities to prompt him to actually have a strategy, that's a sad commentary on united states foreign policy. >> that's another conversation, josh. >> it is another conversation, but i do recall after the chemical attack last year, that is what led president trump to take action. ...

Continuing the obama administration policy which is to continue to protect american civilians. i don't see any hope that that's going to change. >> and bottom line, assad, if it is determined to be the responsibility of the syrian government, this latest chemical attack was not deterred by that last strike by the u.s. but president trump is also blaming pue ining putin for thi what options does the u.s. have when it comes to putting pressure on russia? >> i mean there's not a lot of options, seriously. obviously president trump has made a distinction between being semitough on russia for its p...

Christoph, he's a columnist for the "new york times" who's written extensively about the plight of the syrian people during this awful civil war. nick, what's your reaction to what we're hearing and seeing out of syria? >> it's unconscionable of syria to use these weapons and in some sense maybe one could argue that the technology by which assad kills people, doesn't matter so much whether it's bullets or bayonets or poisoned gas. but it does breach an international norm when he goes ahead and does this and he does that because he can get away with it. and the first reports of use of poisoned ...