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Filling a vacuum left by withdrawal of u.s. troop there's. share a piece of video. look at this. a journalist traveling with russian-backed forces appears to show off the inside of a now abandoned u.s. base. he says, "yesterday morning they were here, and this morning we are here. let's see how they lived." congresswoman elissa slotkin is with me serving on both homeland services and homeland committey, cnn analyst and done three tours in iraq. congresswoman, a pleasure. first question. what are u.s. troops thinking right now? >> i think a lot of us still have strong communications with a lot ...

Issued a stand down order to the israelis. what do you think of that? >> they're not going to listen to that. it is different. up until now, every time the israelis have struck and they have struck because they have seen the iranians doing something that israelis think will threaten them. they have knocked it out and the russians are haven't done anything about it. we can't -- the russians shouldn't be there. they saw a vacuum left by the obama administration -- >> neil: they say no chemical attack even occurred. >> the president was right in calling assad an animal. he saw enough intelligence...

>> that's right, it may be premature to conclude as the "new york times" editorial page has concluded that there's a moral awakening going on, but i think of it more as sort of a vacuum left by the white house, moral leadership clear guidance, speaking in a timely and forceful way about common shared values that are really important to this country. the president has chosen not to do it. it's not as if he just forgot, not as if people didn't encourage him to say the right thing at the right time. i made a decision to sort of leave that alone as if it was none of his business or if it didn't ma...

The president would have been in a position to negotiate and would have had a position to negotiate. >> was it the president or kerry? does it matter whose idea it was? well, apparently he does to putin. he is just going to go ahead and claim all the credit. there was a vacuum left, because we fumbled the ball. >> i don't think we fumbled the ball. but i do agree, among the three of us we don't want to be crediting vladimir putin. i hate to say -- >> ebony, let me just say something. vladimir putin, when he called kerry a liar, when kerry was saying that the rebels were more moderate, that is ...

The president would have been in a position to negotiate and would have had a position to negotiate. >> was it the president or kerry? does it matter whose idea it was? well, apparently he does to putin. he is just going to go ahead and claim all the credit. there was a vacuum left, because we fumbled the ball. >> i don't think we fumbled the ball. but i do agree, among the three of us we don't want to be crediting vladimir putin. i hate to say -- >> ebony, let me just say something. vladimir putin, when he called kerry a liar, when kerry was saying that the rebels were more moderate, that is ...