Certainly, massagisogyny pla role. That has to be admitted. Hillary clinton has her own theories of how donald trump defeated her in november. Shes sharing them with the world. We will take you through that, take you through a whole lot more on this very busy day. Arent they all busy these days . We begin, though, with our top story, the nation, the world asking now what comes next . President trumpsir strikes in syria, what did they achieve . Will there be more in the future . Of course, the goal here stopping assad from launching future Chemical Attacks on the syrian people. Also, one of the designs here, trying to send a message that the United States will not tolerate that kind of war crime and what trump is calling slaughter and bloodshed. Now, of course, the big question, what was actually achieved with last nights air strikes . The Syrian Government denouncing the attack as, quote, reckless and irresponsible. If syria, if its president , Bashar Al Assad, is not deterred if the future, well, what happens next . Will there be more attacks . Will there be bigger attacks . I want to get now to hans nichols who is over at the pentagon pentagon. Hans, that is the big question Going Forward, what exactly does the United States feels was achieved here and is there a chance that were going to be talking about more action and maybe more significant action down the line . Well, theres an acute hint by the u. N. Ambassador nim nick k bla nikki haley saying more could happen. Theyre saying its a bracketed event, it started, it began, now its over. It was successful in achieving its objectives. That objective was not retribution but deterrence and disabling the airfield from which they think, and theyre pretty confident and they laid out a lot of evidence, they think thats the airfield from which a plane on april the 4th took off early in the morning, flew up and dropped that bomb, landed in the middle of a street and the reason they think its a chemical bomb is a, in the middle of the street they saw almost an immediate reaction, they also saw a signature around the rim of the crater, it was stained with something that looked like could have been a potential chemical weapon. Heres what theyre trying to figure out at the pentagon right now. To what extent were the russians aware or were they complicit . Were they in any way supportive of this chemical attack . Theyre looking into it. They dont have any definitive evidence yet. Thats a big charge to make, but they are looking into it, in particular, steve, the morning of that attack on april 4th, lar in t day a couple hours later, there was a bigger bomb that was dropped on the hospital that was next to that site of the chemical weapons attack. They dont want they want to ascertain with certain who was behind that hospital attack as well. One final note on the damage done, you know, they took out radar, took out surfacetoair missiles on the actual airfield. They do not have any great deal of certainty whether or not the russians or the syrians were able to get off and maybe sneak off some of their aircraft from that airfield. They think, though, they hit a little more than two dozen. Steve . All right. Hans nichols at the pentagon. Thanks for that. Now another key piece of this, hans was juf starting to talk about this, russia, of course, has a major presence on the ground in syria, russia is fiercely aligned with the assad regime. Fiercely opposed to the attack, the kremlin not surprisingly now condemning last nights attack saying also that it barely established anything. And a russian official claiming that this will have a destructive impact on russias relationship with the United States. And hanging over all of that, President Trumps vision stated many times during the campaign of stronger and more cooperative ties between the United States and russia. He came into office certainly leaving the door open to working with putin, particularly where it came to fighting isis even in syria. So what does this mean for trumps vision of a new relationship with russia . Lets turn now to nbc news chief global correspondent bill nealy in moscow. So, bill, is trump now watching that hope for cooperation with are russia disintegrate . Reporter no, i think that hes, as in so many ways, steve, hes learning the realities of governing. So if you take action against russias ally president assad, yo can expect kickback from russia. For example, Dmitry Medvedev saying, ah, it only took President Trump 2 1 2 months before he was sucked back into the swamps of the washington establishment as medvedev put it. Look, secretary of state Rex Tillerson is due here next week. He said some pretty harsh things today including either russia was complicit in syrias use of chemical weapons or it was incompetent. But hell still sit down next week with the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov who said today i dont think this missile strike will lead to an irreversible situation. So the russians are Still Holding out, i think, some hope that they can reach some new beginning of a relationship with the u. S. Yes, there were the predictable acts of, and statements of condemnation today. President putin saying, for example, that this was an act of aggression against a sovereign state and against international law. But, you know, president putin didnt say that on camera. He didnt appear. Thats significant. Also at the u. N. Today, we had the predictable very visible anger of Russias Deputy ambassador at the u. N. Saying that this was against international law. But in general, ihink thi dispute is being contained. Yes, there is a russian warship on the way to the eastern mediterranean, but even the pentagon is saying that warship has been there before. It doesnt see the warship as a threat. There is no sense that the russians are going to retaliate for this. This was a limited u. S. Missile strike and i think there is limited condemnation from russia. I think this dispute is already, steve, being contained. All right. Very interesting there, bill neely over in moscow. Bill, thanks for that. Of course, the much bigger question here, are we seeing a trump doctrine on Foreign Policy taking place and how at odds would that doctrine be with the message that carried him to the white house in the first place . Remember, in 2013, when obama was putting out the idea of air strikes against syria after assad crossed that socalled red line, it was trump who came out back then in opposition to any keend kind of military action in syria. And it wasnt just syria. During the campaign, one of the things that Trumps Campaign exposed was that there was a much larger appetite among republicans for a less interventionist Foreign Policy. Now 78 days in the Trump Administration, here is donald trump launching air strikes in syria and look who he is receiving praise from. Marco rubio, john mccain, Lindsey Graham. These are hawkish republican voices. These are voices who were intensely critical of trumps Foreign Policy views during the campaign. There are also democrats praising donald trump right now. When is the last time you saw that . In the hours before the attack, even Hillary Clinton seeming to call for pretty much the type of action we ended up seeing from trump. I really believe that we should have and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them. So the interventionist voices in both parties are praising trump here. Meanwhile, the criticism hes getting is coming from the base of the Republican Party that rallied around him as a nonhawkish candidate. You can see some of it on your screen right there. Has trump now done what many of his predecessors from both parties seem to do as well once they came to office . Is he bending away from his Campaign Message and toward the Foreign Policy establishment . A bipartisan Foreign Policy establishme establishment. I want to bring in general wesley clark, former nato supreme ally commander and michael steele, former chairman of the Republican National committee. Gentlemen, thank you, both, for joining us. General clark, let me start with you on a more practical question here. What this air strike did last night, do you think Going Forward, if the goal was to deter assad from future Chemical Attacks, do you think this delivered the message that would achieve that . I think it did deliver a message. We dont know whether it will achieve it or not because we dont know all the technologies, all the capabilities they have. We also have to look at the response thats out here. So, maybe it did, but if it does deter future Chemical Attacks, then the answer is the question that follows, rather, is, now what . Does that mean that were going to have a more interventionist policy in syria or is this just a oneoff . He can do whatever he wants in there, he can kill women and children with immunity as long as he uses artillery and bullets and falling masonry but he cant just use gas . And so that doesnt quite make sense, either. So, theres some Big Questions still out here on this. Even if it was only a oneoff occasion. Let me get to that question here of the trump doctrine, of trump the candidate versus trump the president. We saw ordering this strike. Here is how sean spicer, his spokesman, is trying to square what he said during the campaign with this action. Take a listen. How does thisit with his americafirst Foreign Policy . Is that still his stated position . Absolutely. I think that his actions were very clear under article 2 in our Nations National security. Theres a very Important National security interest in the region. Stability. Obviously theres a huge humanitarian component to this. Michael steele, you know the Republican Party as well as anyone. W what do you make of this . Sean spicer says no inconsistency, but, look, 2013, there were Chemical Attacks from assad, there were air strikes on the table. We know donald trump was out there, whatever it was worth back then saying dont do it, dont get involved in this. This certainly seems like a departure from a message that resonated more than people expected it would with your party. No, it did, and that message then was probably still in play up until, i believe, the president saw the images that came from syria. Where he saw these children who were affected, dead and dying, by what assad had done. And i think that kind of moved him into this different space. He even said as much. In terms of an established doctrine, steve, i dont think were there yet. I think we to the generals point, i think youre going to have to wait to see the what next. How does the administration reposition the playing field, if you will, relative to russia and to china to some degree . Very interesting to have xi jinping sitting therehile all this was happening. So there are whole lot of different dynamicat play on the global stage. On the closer to home political stage, i think the president s going to have to square with his base if there is a transitional move to a different type of approach or doctrine, if you will, that goes beyond what he said during the campaign. Hes going to have to square that up very directly and some clear pronouncements about why hes making he ining this chang its portion that the u. S. Reposition itself relative to syria. General clark, lets get into that russia question. I dont know if you saw the report we had from bill neely before your segment, it struck me, it certainly jumped out at me, he essentially seemed to be saying that russia is almost going through the motions in its response here that sure, theyre going to offer condemnation, sure, theres going to be a few sort of official steps here, but by in large, he was saying this is contained, it almost feels like both sides are doing a dance. That broader question here weve been seeing in the early days of the trump presidency, donald trump campaigning on the idea of a closer cooperative relationship with russia, could that still, in light of what bill neely is reporting there, could that still be an operative thing even after an attack like this . Of course, it can be operative that he could have a closer relationship with russia. But on this specific incident, dont believe that russia wants to see u. S. Greater u. S. Engagement in syria. It doesnt. We cant really affect the situation on the ground without moreeverage. We cant get tha without engagement and russia doesnt want us to have that leverage and doesnt want the engagement and wants to run the show there and do it its own way. So the question for the Trump Administration is going to be this. Okay, we got our marines in, weve got artillery there, were going to move on raqqah. After weve defeated or dispersed isis out of raqqah, then what . What do we do . Just turn it back over to Bashar Al Assad . Russia probably has someone standing in the wings that could continue assads policies. But what does that do for the millions and millions of people whove been displayed and become refugees and what about the horrific crimes against humanity that have been committed by the assad regime . So, theres some big issues here. Russia would like to keep it just like it is. So its going to take its a bite, mosquito sting by criticizing us but russia doesnt want us to get deeply engaged and its in their interest that we not do that, so if we dont, if its a oneoff, yes, President Trump can certainly come back later, can say to the critics, i was tough when i had to be tough, and he can also say to the russians, lets work more closely together. Very feasible. Michael steele, when it comes to sort of the evolution of trump here from what he said in the campaign to what hes doing, i wonder if something bigger is happening here that weve seen in some ways with past president s. I think george w. Bush, obviouslin 2000, he said hes not going to be a nationbuilder as president. Right. Of course, afghanistan, iraq, even barack obama, he ran on a lot of skepticism of that sort of bipartisan Foreign Policy establishment in washington. He ended up launching some air strikes of his own. Right. In iraq. Im looking at this today. This just crossed the wire, ann marie slaughter, she was under Hillary Clinton in the state department, the Obama Administration, she just went on twitter and praised what trump did. She said donald trump has done the right thing on syria. Finally after years of useless handwringing in the face of hideous atrocities. Is there a think that happens . Are we seeing it here with all president s where they campaign on skepticism of that bipartisan Foreign Policy establishment and find themselves drawn into it once in office . Yeah, the job is a reality check real quick. I think thats what the president saw and is diealing with right now. Of all the world events that hes had to look at and whether its on the big social issues or economic or other issues, its always the Foreign Policy piece that comes out of nowhere that checks everything you ever said on the campaign, that checks any view that you have about a doctrine or philosophy and i think the president right now finds himself confronting that and as the next days and weeks settle in, it will be interesting to see how he balances that out against the politics at home and the needs abroad. All right. Michael steele and general wesley clark, thanks to both of you for joining us. Take care. All right. Coming up here, the blame coming from all sides about how President Trumps pick for the Supreme Court got through today. The procedure, the process as much pt of the story as the fact that we will now have a new Supreme Court justice. Were going to go live to the capitol hill and ask if the senate is broken. 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[ doorbell rings ] whos that . Show me watchathon. Xfinity watchathon week now until april 9. Get unlimited access to all of netflix and more, free with xfinity on demand. N this te, the ayes are 54. The nays are 45. The nomination of neil m. Gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. The Senate Voting today to approve President Trumps choice of neil gorsuch to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat. Hell be formally sworn in on monday. That will mark the first time in over a year there have been a full nine members on the Supreme Court. Republicans to get this done triggered the socalled nuclear option. That broke a democratic filibuster of the gorsuch nomination. Senators moving to change the rules of the chamber. This is a big one. This got rid of the 60vote threshold that democrats had been insisting with their filibuster. This is a move that could reshape the senate in many unpredictable ways in the years ahead. Kasie hunt joins us now from capitol hill. Shes been following this. Kasie, democrats said, hey, the republicans left us no choice but to filibuster. The republicans said, hey, the democrats left us no choice but to do the nuclear option. It seems like theres this escalation and its been playing out for years now on both sides. Do we know where this ends . Does this end in a place where the senate can still be functional . Reporter yeah, steve, i dont know if i want to go so far as to call this kind of those recess playground kindergarten things where its he said she said, i told you so, this is kind of how this argument played out. Democrats have said republic caps started it. Republicans said, well, democrats started it. And democrats now are very upset about Merrick Garland and his failure to get a hearing. Republicans are saying, look, this is you forced us into this position, Chuck Schumer started this back in the early 2000s. But there still are people who have been warning that this is not the right way to go, that this is going to ultimately damage the senate in the long run. John mccain is probably the most highprofile of them. Take a look at how he characterized this. United States Senate was designed for us to communicate, for us to work together, for us to understand the results and repercussions of a free and fair election. And its about time that we sat down together and tried to do some things for the American People in a bipartisan fashion. Reporter so, that was a little bit more polite than what he told me in the hallways a couple of days ago. He said anyone who thinks this would be good for the senate is a numbskull and stupid idiot. Well see how it impacts the that in the long run. There are still people who think this is not the way to go, steve. And kasie, before you let you go, another piece of news out there in washington thats got a lot of people talking. Mitt romney, republican candidate for president in 2012, former massachusetts governor, suddenly there is some talk of mitt romney running for the u. S. Senate from utah in 2018. What are you hearing about that . Reporter steve, its fascinating, and its not just some people talking about it, what we learned today is that mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, has actually had conversations with mitt romney about potentially running for this seat. Romneyof course is beloved in utah. Hes credited with saving the 2002 Salt Lake City olympic games. He and his wife, ann, now live there most the time. So he has very deep ties, obviously, his family has long ties to the state. It all hinges whether or not orrin hatch, current senator from utah, decides to retire. That may be on the table. Hatch, himself, has said to potentially view this in a positive light if he would step back that he would like to see romney step in. So, if the governor were to run for senate, i think for those of us who cover this body would be another very interesting highprofile person to have around. Especially in the trump era. Its a really interesting story. I remember when he was running the olympics in 2002, he looked at staying in utah and running for governor there. He ended up deciding he had a better shot in politics in massachusetts. It would be interesting if all these years later he ends up doing it again in utah. Casey hukasie hunt on capitol h. Thanks for the time. Reporter thanks, steve. Nice to see you. Quick break. On the other side. While the world reacted today to President Trumps attack of so syria, he and the first lady hosted the chinese president and his wife at maralago. Well go to florida for the latest. Plus new developments out of sweden involving the manhunt for a suspect who ran a truck into a crowded Department Store in stockholm killing at least four people. 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President trump says the strike is the response to this weeks chemical weapons attack in a rebelheld area in northern syria. Meanwhile syrias allies today condemning the move. The Kremlin Russian prident Vladimir Putin called it aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law. U. S. Allies in the middle east and elsewhere, day are expressing support for the strike. Swedish authorities have now arrested one person in connection with a deadly truck crash in the capital city of stockholm. Police say four people were killed, 15 others injured when a truck plowed into pedestrians before slamming into a Department Store. Swedens Prime Minister says it has all of the indications of a terrorist attack. President trump says he thinks the u. S. Made, quote, tremendous progress in its relationship with china during a summit with the chinese president in florida. Officials say the two leaders talking about north korea, trade and other issues. The meeting being overshadowed, of course, by President Trumps decision to authorize that strike against syria last night. And speaking of that session in florida, Chris Jansing joins us now from palm beach near where the summit took place. Chris, what is the administration saying today about syria and its strategy in the coming days . Reporter i just finished listening to a briefing with Rex Tillerson and Steve Mnuchin and have a couple pieces of breaking news, steve. The first from mnuchin, a new round of sanctions coming soon against syria. It shows, he says, the seriousness with which they take this. Adding to the military action, therll be a new round of sanctions he ss they, pebl expeo work to maximum effect. Then the obvious next question is, what about a followup in terms of military . Is this just a oneoff is the way the question was asked of the secretary tillerson. And he says the future will be guided by how we see their reaction. That this administration is going to have a sustained military strategy for the region. But he also gave us some new insights into exactly what happened. He said the runways were not the target. That they wanted to be able to not allow that one airfield, one of six that are in syria, to continue to function as a base. So they were looking at targeting their hangars, their aircraft, and they wanted to stop their fueling capabilities. Now, bigger picture, had a chance to talk to sean spicer earlier today and he said hes not going to telegraph exactly what might be next. Obviously, beyond sanctions and in terms of any possible military, but that the president is feeling very strongly that this was a correct decision, that this was an effective decision and justified. Justified under the constitution as defending the United States and keeping its National Security interests uppermost and then beyond that, that they believe it sends a strong signal. Sends a strong signal not just domestically but obviously internationally that there is someone new in charge hernd they have a different approach, a stronger approach, and one they believe is going to be effective. Steve . All right. Chris jansing in palm beach, florida. Chris, thank you for that. Turning back, of course, to that question of syria, the abrupt reversal from President Trump on syria. This coming at the same time as all sorts of turmoil within the white house is spilling into public view. Already this week, Steve Bannons demotion from the National SecurityCouncil Principals committee. Also reports following that that said his days in the administration could be numbered. Now another report that trump may be ready to change his chief of staff, Reince Priebus. Joining me now to talk about this and more, tim carney, commentary editor at the washington examiner. Michael zin, former press secretary for the dnc, spokesman for president obama in his 2012 campaign. Jonathan swan, National Political reporter for axeos. Jonathan, ill start with you. Axeos reporting today on priebus. You had reporting earlier in the week on bannon. Let me ask you two questions here about inside the administration and whats happening. What are the president s frustrations with Reince Priebus that would prompt this kind of story . And what is his level of support for steve bannon these days . Well, to start with Reince Priebus, look, donald trump has been making phone calls for weeks now. He makes them often latet night. He talks to friends of his outside the administration. And hes been sounding them out about the chief of staff role. Donald trump likes results. He doesnt feel like hes getting results. The way one person inside the white house characterized it to me in terms of his view of Reince Priebus is nice guy, bad instincts. And thats one of the worst things donald trump can say about someone in terms of questioning their instincts. Particularly on health care. Donald trump persistently asked two questions, one, is this the best bill we bcan get . Number two, is this thing going to pass . People in the room say Reince Priebus were positive about its chances of passage and they say that damaged his credibility. As for steve bannon, we dont actually that is one part of the donald trump mindset that i dont have visibility into. What i do have visibility into is gary kohn and Jared Kushner wing of the white house has turned against steve bannon and believes that he is destructive influence on the administration. So tim carney, im curious, how is this all being these reports were getting, how is it being interpreted outside the white house among republicans, get reports of bannon getting demoted, maybe being on his way out, priebus, the frustrations the president has. Do republicans tend to view this as potentially positive signs coming out of the white house, negative signs, more of the same . Hows it being interpreted . Well, you got this pretty big ideological divide there thats going on. This isnt just sort of warring camps. Bannon calls, you know, kushner, Jared Kushner and all those people the democrats. And bannon and steve miller are sort of the populists. Neither of these are traditional conservatives, right . So where you come down on it, or the way that conservatives and republicans on the hill see it, depends on what they think of this. You know, the idea of Going Forward into a war possibly in syria, thats not coming from bannon. That could be coming from kushner and the socalled democrats. The fight over immigration or even in health care, the willingness to sort of embrace, to move toward a Big Government solution that you sometimes hear from the likes of bannon, there are some conservatives who are a little relieved that that push could be weakened. If bannon is weakened then theres a little less of the populist voice. The wariness comes from the fact theres not a conservative push there pushing against it. Its Jared Kushner who, again, as bannon points out was a democrat up to the point he entered this white house. Want to get to Something Else a lot of people are talking about right now. Hillary clinton speaking out. She was at an event in new yk yesterday. Obviously one of the topics that came up, why does she think she lost the president ial election last year . Heres a little bit of what she had to say. Certainly, misogyny played a role. I mean, that just has to be admitted. And why and what the underlying reasons were is what im trying to parse out, myself. With men, success and ambition are correlated with likability. So the more successful a man is, the more likable he becomes. With a woman, guess what, its the exact opposite. Michael zin, she also talked about james comey, the letter he sent out ten days before the election citing that as a factor in her mind, wikileaks, she said that played a bigger role than a lot of people still realize. She did also say theres more he campaign could have done. I wonder, though, listening to Hillary Clinton at the event and what democrats have been saying the last few months, is it fair to say the feeling among democrats is not that Hillary Clinton really did anything that lost the election, it was more things that were done to her . It was a perfect storm. It was a lot of reasons. I think its hard to put your finger on one thing. But there was this cacophony of issues whether it was comey, wikileaks, people being complacent because they just didnt think donald trump would win. There were a lot of issues but i think looking forward to just piggyback on a couple things that were just said, you know, donald trump wants a Better Health care bill, right . Hes never said what that is. The same way he doesnt say what he wants to get out of syria is thats why youre having all these issues. Now hes blaming someone like Reince Priebus for not passing the health care bill. I still dont know what donald trump actually wanted to get out of that and thats really whats concerning about whats going on today. Yeah, i take i want to stay on this point, though, of okay. Hillary clinton and the election for this reason. I think its important Going Forward how a party processes a defeat in the president ial election. Are the lessons that they learn from it more like, hey, we failed in this area, we were blind to this, we need to change in this way . Or are the lessons more, hey, we mostly did the right things and we kind of got screwed here. Im just saying when i listened to Hillary Clinton last year and ive seen a lot of commentary from democrats that suggests theyeel that maybe the story of the election are these are the things that happened to us, not the things we did wrong. Is that something youre seeing and is that is the balance theyre striking the right balance . It you know, theres certainly the things that happened and thats what decides campaigns. Thats what every campaign is about is responding to the situations that youre dealt with. Could hillary have had a better message to connect with a broader swath of the electorate . Absolutely. I think thats something we need to really hone in on as we move forward. Tim carney, from your standpoint, im curious, too, when you see Hillary Clinton, you know, the democratic candidate reemerging right now, what do you think of her assessment . Yeah, i think trying to blame other people is not good politics. I dont generally go around giving the democrats advice on how to do it. How to run their party. It was interesting when nancy pelosi was running against tim ryan to be minority leader in the house, her criticism of ryan seemed to be, oh, he comes from a district that hillary didnt even win. Meaning, well, you cant lead us if youre from sort of red america. And so that was a sign, again, then you see a lot of these some of the reaction, not most, but some of the reaction on the left, if you go to a place like salon or slate, theyre saying, no, we shouldnt have any sympathy for trump voters who are suffering, theres no such thing as a good trump voter. There is sort of a, i call it elite identity politics going on in the democratic party, where they dont like to think, well, we should have gotten those voters in pennsylvania and wisconsin. Some of them are thinking, well, those people, theyre not our people and so were not going to reach out to them. You take that combined with her sort of blaming other people, and its looking like a Minority Party mindset going on there in the dnc. Rather than what you saw rahm emanuel and howard dean do back in 2006 which is say, were going to go into these districts, were going to run people who arent our typical sort of candidate and win these voters who we think of as the other guys voters. Jonathan swan, i want to get to one other issue here, we touched on this a little earlier in the show but donald trump, his relationship with republicans on capitol hill after this attack on syria, which takes him in a different direction than what he campaigned on. This is what Lindsey Graham had to say. Lindsey graham, of course, a big critic. Heres what hes saying now. I think he was repulsed as a human being by what assad was capable of doing. The children really moved him and all i can say about this president , he has the instincts of Ronald Reagan in many ways. Hes an emotional man but hes also a very smart man. I think he feels that he did the right thing by those children. Im just trying to figure out, jonathan, Going Forward, what this is going to mean for his relationship with republicans on capitol hill. When you have Lindsey Graham, john mccain, marco rubio, i mean, these guys were merciless in their criticism of donald trump on Foreign Policy and other areas but specifically Foreign Policy in the campaign. Is this going to change things Going Forward . Well, if you take actions that are moving in the direction of conventional republican Foreign Policy, you are going to win the approval of john mccain, lindsey aham, marco rubio and most republicans in the senate with the exception of rand paul. Youre alsoinning the approval of democrats, Chuck Schumer came out and praised him. And frankly, this is what worries people like steve bannon and his allies in the white house which is that you their belief is that you are forgetting the principles and the things that you ran on that excited your voters and that they voted for. They did not vote for things like intervention in syria and, you know, if he starts turning in the direction of multilateral trade deals, im sure he will get a lot of approval among republicans in the senate, but, again, again, youre fracturing that base, that hardcore base of 35 that love him and were probably alienated by other politicians and maybe lost faith in politics in return because they thought donald trump could deliver certain things. All right. Jonathan swan, tim carney, michael czin, thank you all for joining us. Appreciate it. Thanks for having us. On the other side, obviously a lot of discussion right now about the order that President Trump gave last night. 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There is a bigger backdrop to President Trumps decision to launch tomahawk missiles against syria, what happened 4 years ago in 2013, when president obama refused to do so under very similar circumstances. Now, what was going on back then in obama had publicly stated the use of chemical weapons by syrian president Bashar Al Assad against his own people would constitute the crossing of a red line. In the summer of to 2013, assadd just that testing obamas red line. Obama responded by essentially trying to punt the issue to congress. He said he didnt think he needed their approval to act, but he was asking for their input, anyway. Congress, for its part, didnt seem too enthusiastic about getting involved. Then before that could go any further, suddenly the Obama Administration announced that it had brokered a deal through syrias biggest ally, russia, in a deal called for syria to get rid of its chemical weapons stockpile. President obama trump peting th as one of his proudest achievements as president , diplomacy over militarism. Unless we were all in and willing to take over syria, we were going to have problems. And that Everything Else was tempting because we wanted to do something and it sounded like the right thing to do, but it was going to be impossible to do this on the cheap. And in that circumstance, i have to make a decision as president of the United States as to what is best. That is what happened in 2013. Then fast forward last summer, reports emerged that assad still had chemical weapons. The Obama Administration, though, still maintaining that all those weapons were out, as recently as january. Susan rice saying chemical weapons had been completely extracted from syria. Now, of course, we know that that wasnt the case. There are obvious concerns about the potential consequences of the military action that trump is now taking in syria. Question is, the example of the last president s deal also a lesson to consider as we look at what comes next in syria. Joining me now to talk about this, john finer, he worked on the National Security council in the obama white house. Later as secretary of state john kerrys chief of staff. Thanks for joining us. So, john, let me just ask you, i mean, looking back, the last administration you we part of, the Obama Administration thought it had a deal that would mean what we saw this week wasnt going to happen. That the chemical weapons would be gone, assad would not be able to use them against his own people. Is there a lesson here about the limits of diplomacy at all . First of all, steve, i want to take a slight issue with the way you characterized this situation in your runup. You said president obama punted this issue to congress. What president obama did, and secretary kerry led the way on in implementing, was launch a diplomatic effort that removed more than a thousand tons, up to 1,300 tons of chemical weapons from syria that would otherwise be in the hands of president Bashar Al Assad or perhaps even more dangerously in the hands of isil which at that time was not in control of the country and which now has john, what we saw this week is that assad still had the weapons and that assad was still willing to use them against his own people. And that was the issue back in 2013. He had the weapons, he used them against his own people, there was a call for military strikes back then to try to prevent this from happening in the future. Instead there was the diplomatic slight youre talking about but heres where we landed four years later. Still had the weapons, still used them on his own people. So what is the lesson that comes out of that . I think one lesson, weve been Firm Believers in this, as president obama articulated, which is the combination of diplomacy and either force or the prospect of force reinforces diplomacy and makes it more effective. Thats the reason russia and eventually assad agreed to give up vast quantities of their chemical weapons, 1,300 tons. Was it every last drop of the material they had . It wasnt. We said at the time and said repeatedly and subsequently we were concerned the declarations the Syrian Government had made to the ocpw whi was responsible for getting the weapons out and to the u. N. Security council were incomplete and we continued to push in these two bodies y ies for the s to complete their declarations and get the rest of the chemical weapons out. They were protected as they often are in International Organizations by their allies and youve now seen the recent response of these people, the russians, who are russians, who are climbing against all credibility that what the Trump Administration was responding to was a Syrian Opposition chemical weapons depot. The syrians were protected by russian elements. A back in 2013 president obama asserted, he said he believed he did not need to go to congress for air strikes. He went anyway but he said if he wanted to he could have launched the air strikes. Do you look back and say if the air strikes had been launched, do you think the moments would have come anyway . I think there are huge numbers of unknowns. And one was what would have happened in the aftermath of those air strikes many president obama knew at the time and said at the time and you saw Trump AdministrationOfficials Say last night that military action alone cannot remove the capability of syria to launch kept weapons attacks. The only way you can be absolutely sure they wont be able tdo these attacks is if those weapons are removed from the country. If we had taken strikes back in 2013, theres to guarantee first of all that those weapons would have been totally removed. In fact pretty close to a guarantee that military strikes alone would not have been able to do that. It required diplomacy to do. That. All right. Obama administration and also chief of staff to john kerry. Thank you. A quick break here. On the other side, a new jobs report out of President Trumps early presidency. What did it say to the markets . 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