condemns the taxi and has confidence in egyptian president faah el sisi, that he will handle the situation properly. while the president is here at palm beach spending a little bit of downtime away from washington, a couple of days after the summit with the chinese leader, alex. >> hallie, let's talk about the administration's plans for followup on syria. what comes after the strikes? >> reporter: listen, alex, that is kind of the billion dollar question here, because it has not been made clear specifically what the long term strategy in syria is going to be. that's why you're hearing questions from, for example, members of get about what the plan is, essentially. the administration has alluded to more action if and when necessary and appropriate but hasn't said what that action will be, hasn't said what the plan will be if bashar al assad were to come out of power there, and that's raising questions. you have the secretary of state being one of the most fixable