Going on. But tonight i actually showed up with something planned to say. Oh, okay. And you ruined it. Because i just listened again. Rachel. Bless our hearts and other parts. All right. But [ laughter ] i didnt know i could get you to say that again. Im regretting it immediately. Okay. Im going to try to say the thing i planned to say. Okay. And what i planned to say is wouldnt it be nice if it was just completely totally absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he has picked up over the last 24 hours . Wouldnt it be so nice if you couldnt even in your Wildest Dreams imagine a scenario like that . Wouldnt it be great if we could go back to wag the dog being a sitcom plot, you know. Exactly. And i dont know what it is. Is it a 2 chance . Is it a 50 chance . I dont know. But i dont think its a zero percent chance. And it used to be with every other president prior to donald trump. And the question of how we will ever find out whether or not thats ever true is intertwined with the ongoing intelligence operation of this president s campaign in terms of whether or not he colluded with russia. Maybe eventually well get an answer to that from jim comey. We will wait. Thanks, rachel. Well, when bill clinton fired missiles during his presidency, republicans questioned that they questioned whether that was to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and that was a legitimate question. You couldnt possibly get through covering that story without having that question come up. Because the president was deeply involved in the scandal. And the missiles changed the subject as the missiles always do. Missiles always change the subject. And so tonight we have some questions about the motivations of everyone involved. In what has happened inside syria. The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more. She is clearly telegraphing a deeper involvement in syria, which again, several days ago was not a key priority for the Trump Administration. The strikes on syria . Thank you very much. Im Dentist Trustful of how quickly he switched. I dont know what his motivations were. It is frankly not helpful to launch a small scale attack and
to continue a policy of denying exit from syria to the millions of children and parents. I think the president owes it to the American People to come to congress and present a plan. This is not one of the vital u. S. National security interests. North korea. Iranian nukes. I believe lots of very potentially bad problems will be going away. I think frankly, if there is a danger right now, it would be that the u. S. Is expressing too much confidence. There is a reason its been hard to figure this out. It is very complicated. And there are millions of people suffering in the meanwhile. Its perfect. Just perfect. I wish it wasnt. If Vladimir Putin, if, if, if Vladimir Putin masterminded the last week in syria, he has gotten everything he could have asked for. Vladimir putin was essentially the man in charge of making sure that syria got rid of all of its Chemical Weapons under a deal with the obama administration. So it makes perfect sense to question whether president Bashar Al Assad would have checked with his most important patron, Vladimir Putin, before using Chemical Weapons that Vladimir Putin was supposed to have helped get rid of. It would be terribly embarrassing to Vladimir Putin if president assad had exposed Vladimir Putin as having completely failed to get rid of those Chemical Weapons. You wouldnt want to be Bashar Al Assad in a conversation with Vladimir Putin after that. Unless you had a conversation with him before that. Unless Vladimir Putin said i have an idea. Go ahead. Do a small Chemical Attack. Nothing nothing like the big ones youve done in the past. Just big enough to attract Media Attention so that my friend in the white house will see it on tv. And then donald trump can fire
some missiles at syria that will do no real damage, and then the American News media will change the subject from russian influence in the Trump Campaign and the trump transition and the Trump White House. Its perfect. It doesnt just change the subject. For most of the news media, it changes the conventional wisdom about the dynamic between Vladimir Putin and donald trump. President trump has finally dared to do something that Vladimir Putin doesnt like. It changes everything. As long as you never, never question whether Vladimir Putin wanted all of this to happen this week. And when you question that and you look at what has a happened, its always worth remembering that if Vladimir Putin really does have ways known or unknown to donald trump to influence donald trump, then every day that is a good day for president
trump is a good day for President Putin. Now not one word that ive just said could possibly have been said about any president prior to donald trump. In syria, you could be absolutely sure that president assad and President Putin did not do that in order to help the image of the president of the United States. That, that is the world that donald trump has given us. That is the range of possibility donald trump has given us. You will hear the counter to the possible scenario that i have just outlined. But what you wont hear is proof that that scenario that i have just outlined is impossible. Because with the presidency of donald trump has shown is that
with donald trump anything is possible. You have heard in the last 25 hours pundits on television reaching for the momentous, as they always do, reaching for the line that for better or worse will get your attention. And so you have heard the profound pronouncement that Last Night Donald Trump became president of the United States. You should all be used to that by now. That whenever donald trump does something routine, something that most president s would have done, pundits will rush to the microphone to marvel at how president ial the president has become. And they will all, within a matter of days be embarrassed by the least president ial person ever to occupy the white house. We went through this cycle before when the president gave an address to congress and read every word in his teleprompter. After which he was instantly declared to have just become
president of the United States. And four days after they he tweeted terrible. Just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is mccarthyism. And so now we now await that next round of embarrassment for pundits. And we look back on the days when we could be absolutely certain. And i mean 100 certain that Vladimir Putin did not conspire to kill people as a way of helping the image of the president of the United States. Joining us now, david corn, the Washington Bureau chief for mother jones and msnbc political analyst rick wilson, republican strategist and contributor to the daily beast. Also with us indira lakshmanan. Indira, i raise this and i raise
it without assigning a statistical probability to it. I dont know what it is. I just know that its not zero, and it should be zero. It has been zero with every previous president. But when you look at the way the events have unfolded this week, donald trump could not have asked for a better end of the week for his presidency as he sees it. Well, lawrence, this is of course the problem with credibility. That when any white house or any politician has a problem with telling the truth, or is caught in repeated lies, then of course the public is going to have trouble believing them. And thats why the scenario that you spun while i dont abide by it necessarily, or dont put credence in it, nobody can say that it is untrue. We have no way of disproving it. And the fact that anyone would think it at all possible is because we have reason to doubt because so many crazy things have happened. What i will say is that he did these air strikes having alerted the russians to it. You know, they call it deconflicting. Its certainly known that the russians who are backing assad would have alerted the syrians to this and allowed the syrians to get out of place before these airstrikes happened. So while you can on the one hand say yes, President Trump did send a strong message. At the same time its a message where the consequences for the russians and the syrians were reduced. Thats for sure. Yeah, and david corn, they used weapons that wont harm the runways of that airfield. They know exactly how much theyre limiting the damage to the airfield. You could go on and on about it. But if Vladimir Putin wants the Trump Presidency to succeed so that he can manipulate the Trump Presidency, Vladimir Putin is going to have to find ways to help him out. Well, yes. And perhaps there is talk about working on the sanctions if the russians dont overreact. But the word im thinking about
tonight, lawrence, begins with f. Thats feckless. Because you know if obama had done anything like this, a minimum impact launch with telling the russian, and its a good thing you tell the russians first so it doesnt escalate. Yep. And the next day, as was reported today, the syrians are back using the same air base to launch strikes against civilian targets and rebels, that the republicans on the right would be calling obama feckless. Their favorite word for him. This didnt really matter, didnt really do anything, didnt really signal much. So i do think while a lot of pundits as you noted went overboard last night and called him president ial, there is a lot to settle about this one episode. And i dont think, you know, a few days from now, a week or two from now, it may not look as glorious and thus as smart inspired by putin as it might look last night and this morning. Lets listen to what nikki
haley said today at the united nations. It could be that russia is knowingly allowing Chemical Weapons to remain in syria. It could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the Chemical Weapons. Or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. The world is waiting for russia to reconsider its misplaced alliance with bashar assad. The United States will no longer wait for assad to use Chemical Weapons without any consequences. Those days are over. And rick wilson, it could also be that Vladimir Putin was complicit and aware of this Chemical Weapons attack. Look, Vladimir Putin is a former intelligence officer, a classic sort of russian czechist. And this is a guy who stacks bodies like cord wood in his own country to suit his political ends. I put zero past Vladimir Putin
in this sort of thing. And the fact of the matter is there are the emotional reaction by donald trump to this week to set off a one and done attack that was supposed to be a signal. I think people are way overinterpreting the consequences of this in the short and longterm. I dont think this means anything to putin. I think he is laughing all the way to the bank on this. He doesnt care that trump got a little credit for it. He likes that, i think. And it doesnt do anything to change the actual behavior of the assad regime. And it doesnt dismiss the russian clients status of syria to russia. I dont think it moved the ball at all. It let president bang bang whoosh whoosh get to turn the key and watch the pretty rockets go. But i dont think it did anything beyond that. And indira, if there is no real russian response beyond Vladimir Putins mandatory
statement today saying it was an act of aggression, might not donald trump in the Trump White House be grateful that there was no larger response from russia in this . And could that then mean hands off, russia, in syria . Sure. Trump does not want the escalate this into a problem between the United States and russia. But i think the bottom line here is we have to look at the broader question of all of this, which is what is trumps actual policy in syria. And in my column in todays paper, what i wrote about is its very hard to send a message if you dont have a message to send. And Donald Trumps policy to syria has been oppositeville. Basically, four years ago when there was the first Chemical Weapons attack he sent out this tweet storm to President Obama in which he said dont strike. Dont strike assad. Dont do this. There is going to be a disaster. There is no percentage in it for the United States. Dont do it. Now he does the opposite. It seems the trump doctrine is do the opposite of what obama would do. In fact, fewer people were killed in this Chemical Weapons attack than the last one four years ago. So i think the question is just a few days ago, his people, nikki haley and Rex Tillerson were saying assad can stay in power. And now theyre saying assad has to leave. So what is their actual policy beyond 59 air strikes . Whats the next move . Its got to be sanctions. Its got to be diplomacy. At the end of the day wars dont end with a bunch of airstrikes. Wars end with diplomacy. So they have to have a plan b. And i dont think they have thought this through. A few days ago they were going to let assad stay in power. Now theyre suddenly doing airstrikes. They need to think through what is the next plan theyre going to do. Ill say very quickly, on my flight from washington to boston tonight, both senator markey and senator Elizabeth Warren were on the same flight. I spoke to both of them and asked them what do ow think . What next . And both of them were very clear that they think the president has to come to congress if he is going to do anything beyond this in terms of an authorization for
more military force. So the president says he is ready to do more. I think he is going to find a congress that is resistant to letting him do more without coming and first asking for permission. Im reserving my Seton Friday Night Washington to boston flight next friday night. Thats the place to be. It was good one. And david corn, the possibility here that no one in the administration has a hint of a policy. Rex tillerson if you look what he is saying days ago had no hint of a policy. Suddenly now he is supposed to be saying to the russians this is what we need in syria. This is someone who hadnt given it a thought prior to tuesday. Well, this is war by impulse. Donald trump had a policy, so to speak, for a couple years now, dont do anything. Then he changed his mind on the basis of a graphic, gruesome attack. But one that wasnt much different from what weve seen in the past. As indira just pointed out,
there is no strategy beyond the attack. Rex tillerson is due to see putin soon. What is he going to say . What is the policy here . What is the policy about any other region . What is the policy in terms of iraq and iran . We just dont have any because ultimately, its not about policy for donald trump. Its about himself. Go ahead, rick. You know, david is right. This is policy by impulse. And what you saw last night was an action, not a policy. Yeah. This was a moment where john mccain and marco rubio and Lindsey Graham and Everybody Else who has been out there for ages saying weve got to have a cohesive, coherent policy against the assad regime, to not only to defeat isis, for one moment donald trump did something in that lane. He is impulsive. He has the Attention Span of a gnat on meth. This is a guy with zero ability to focus. By tomorrow we could be back to crazy tweet town. And i dont think he has ever thought it through. I think there are competing strains. Mcmaster, mattis, and to my understanding now, a little bit even Rex Tillerson, one of the more nuanced thing. Bannon wants to keep assad in power so he can wage his war against the brown people. And this is an administration that is riven by all these different strains and different competing schools of thought. And i think trump literally, i think davids exactly right. He saw some terrible pictures and said turn the key, launch the missiles. I dont think this is considered in any way. Rick wilson gets the last word in this segment. Rick wilson and indira lakshmanan. What do you think . I think i know who im betting on. [second man] how you doing . [ice cracking] [second man] ah,ah, ah. Oh no [first man] saves us some drilling. [burke] and we covered it, february fourteenth, twentyfifteen. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum whfight back fastts, with tums smoothies. It starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum tum tum tum smoothies only from tums well this heres a loadbearing wall. Well go ahead and rip that out. husband yeah . Its going to cause a lot of problems. Totally unnecessary and it triples the budget. husband mmmm. Wouldnt it be great if everyone said what they meant . The citi® double cash card does. Earn 1 cash back when you buy, and 1 as you pay. Double means double. I think that one thing that Vladimir Putin understands, and thats power. Do you expect this president to change his verbiage on Vladimir Putin . I hope so. And i think that he is beginning to obviously have a significant shift there. Dear predictable, theres no other way to say this. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say if you love something. Set it free. See you around, Giulia Share The Joy of real cream. With reddiwip. Russias supposed to be a guarantor of the removal of Chemical Weapons from syria. Think about that. Russia is supposed to have removed all the Chemical Weapons from syria. But obviously that has not happened. As innocent syrians continue to
be murdered in Chemical Attacks. Pentagon officials are now investigating russias involvement in the Chemical Attack. President putins Spokesman Says friday that the missile strikes significantly damaged russianamerican relations, saying President Putin considers the u. S. Strikes against syria an aggression against a sovereign country, violating the norms of international law. Next week scheduled to have his first facetoface meeting with putin when Rex Tillerson travels to syria. Rex tillerson said clearly russia has failed in its responsibility to deliver on that commitment from 2013. So either russia has been complicit or russia has been simply incompetent in its ability to deliver on its end of that agreement. Joining us now tom nichols, Foreign Policy expert who is a professor at the u. S. Naval war college and the author of the death of expertise. And from moscow david flipof,
Washington Bureau chief for the washington post. What do you suppose is the likelihood that president assad who have launched a Chemical Attack without Vladimir Putins knowledge or approval . Well, there is always the theory that president assad doesnt want any peace agreement. He wants to win the war outright. President putin has been trying to broker a peace deal that brings in turkey and iran because it makes russia have a higher profile. From that point of view, what assad saw was a complete embarrassment to putin and it puts putin in a horrible spot. Now he is the guy backing the pariah. Now assad being the guy who he is, the pariah pulling this off and putin being as shocked as anybody. Do i back that guy or stand down as my position as the Regional Peace broker . Its terrible for putin. And what would be in that scenario, what would be putins choice . Well, hes just said were going to turn off the line of communication that prevents air front indications between russia and u. S. Aircraft. So there is that route, which how do we know that that ends up, you know, with somebody not shooting somebody down. Or there is the route of next week when Secretary Of State tillerson comes in saying weve got to back off of assad and back off our support, come to some sort of agreement with the International Community and condemn this. I dont know. Everything weve ever talked about with putin and trump is what is going to happen when there is a Military Confrontation between these two disrupters in chief. And were about to find that out. It seems to me its hard for putin to back way from his guy at this point. Tom nichols, Vladimir Putin is assads most important sponsor, without putin there is no future for assad. Putin has guaranteed the removal of Chemical Weapons. Then assad used his chemical
weapons. Would he use those chemical weapon, given all of that and given putins direct responsibility on those Chemical Weapons. Would he have used those without checking with Vladimir Putin first and saying i have this in mind . Its quite possible. I mean, the Russian Military in syria cant keep tabs on bashar assad all day long. Assad runs his own country and he runs his own military. This is not he doesnt have to go all the way to the kremlin for permission to do be a things. As david just said, he has now put putin in a terrible position. Putin is a mafia guy. He is a mob boss. And one of his underlings just made him look really bad. Putin may have decide at least this once because his guy did this one thing against the bosss interest that hes got to take a beating but o. But maybe not repeated beatings which is why putin may have
decided to not to turn off the deconfliction channel. Act of aggression, international law, it didnt sound like there was any really powerful language in that. Exactly. Its as much as anyone could have said without actually offering anything aggressive and without actually threatening to do anything. Even turning off that line, that deconflicting line, it doesnt amount to aggression. Its only aggression if you decide to shoot things down. Lets not forget, there is another player in here. Assad is not alone with russia. Its got iran. Iran is assads ally, and iran really wants to win that war and doesnt want other people involved in it either. So one of the things that putin is thinking about, hey, i had this big deal with iran and turkey. What is going on here . I got to be in charge of that. So when putin lashes out and all his people lash out, tune that out and look at it. What exactly is he doing that he wasnt doing yesterday . And there is not that much. Yeah. Tom nichols, to that point, what
is Vladimir Putins next move in this situation . Well, he has to decide just how much trouble assad is worth. In a sense he is backed into a corner. He cant leave him he cant leave assad out in the cold now that the americans have struck him. But hes got a troublesome client, and a client who clearly has an interest in this different from russias who has other friends like iran. And so i think the really interesting question about what develops next is yes, the trumpputin relationship is going to be recognize the see What Happens Next. But also the putinassad relationship. Because assad just gave him a lot more of a headache than putin needed, and really that he probably thinks that assad merit. And david, the Trump Administration tonight is getting out the word that this is a onetime event. They have no plans for any further actions involving syria. Thats the Breaking News actually that is coming in while weve been speaking, that senators who have been briefed on the administrations plans have just revealed that the
administration, the Trump Administration has no followup planned for this at all. So when Vladimir Putin looks at that and says they coordinated with us ahead of time so that we could get everybody out of any danger at that airfield. They made sure they didnt destroy the airfield. They were in effect as gentle as they could be with a missile strike. And Vladimir Putin gets the word tonight that thats it. Thats the end. Donald trump is finished. How does putin react to that . Well, you know, there is a possibility that putin was never going to back downey way because he is Vladimir Putin. But letting them know about the rockets was part of the procedure they would have had with the deconflicting line. And it also, by the way, saved putin from the possible embarrassment that lets say they try to shoot down 59 tomahawks and they cant do it. Those systems wouldnt have been able to take out all those missiles. You would have had a situation there where everybody is firing at each other and it would have looked really bad for everyone. But i see where youre going
with this. There is definitely a possibility that the same way putin really didnt say anything aggressive today, its also true that that gesture really didnt do a whole lot of damage. Its two actors there not really doing a whole lot while making it look really, really, you know, you know, striking. So whats really up is what are we going to see next week when Secretary Of State tillerson comes. How are they going to be talking to each other . Are they talking about solving a problem . Are they talking about deconflicting . Are they talking about the Third World War . I think its none of those things. How with committee move forward and sell everybody on the idea. David filipov, thank you very much for joining us from moscow tonight. And tom nichols, thank you for joining us. Really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Coming up, what next in syria. Thats the question we just got the word, the Breaking News tonight that the Trump Administration has zero plans for a next step in syria. And the war inside the trump
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concerned about. The same ones that is slamming the door of our country in their face are the same babies that he says he now wants to go to war to protect. There is this its not only hypocrisy, its an enormous level of confusion. And its all based on the idea that there is no strategy. This is still, it seems, a president who believes he can somehow win this war. I dont think he could even identify the majority of the forces that are fighting in the war in syria, because as we know, the war in syria is not one war. By my last count, its about 11 separate wars that are regional war, that are global war, that are sectarian wars, all being fought to the last syrian. And its the syrians that are doing the dying. In the war between the turkey and the kurds, its the syrians that are dying. In the war between syria and iran, its the syrians who are
doing the dying. In the slightly warmer war between the United States and russia, its syrians who are doing the dying. So this is what we have to sort of get a grasp of. And whats very clear is that no one in the white house seems to understand it. I want to just review for a moment why President Obama did not take the same action. And in his extensive interview with jeffrey goldberg, the atlantic, when he was explaining his thinking on syria, his thought about this kind of strike was, what he feared about it was yes, we could do it. Easy to do this. And it would be perceived within a very short period of time, if not immediately as a weak response in the region, and that a weak response with no followup makes the United States look powerless. Its almost what President Obama feared was it would be an open declaration of powerlessness to do only this. In fact, this kind of a strike is an act of war, whether its perceived one way or
another or not. The problem is that whole analysis by President Obama, whatever the analysis was of President Trump and those around him, it leaves out the people of syria. It leaves out the people who are affected by this. It assumes that the u. S. Can move in militarily, and that will somehow transform the situation. Despite the fact that we know and President Obama repeated this over and over again, there is no military solution. That means there has to be a willingness to say there Isnt An Instant Solution that looks dramatic and beautiful as one of your commentators last night was repeating several times, which was completely inappropriate, saying that the bombing trails are somehow beautiful. Those bombing trails hold the risk of killing people. And they are violent acts. And to say that we are going to send this as a message without strategy to end this war. The real reason President Obama did not go forward is there was no Political Support for it. First the brits said we would not back it. It was turned over to congress. Massive uprising in this wasnt where offices of congress were saying they were getting calls, 600, 700 to 1 against going to war in syria. Now things are very different in 2017 than they were four years ago. In 2013 at the time of the earlier crisis around Chemical Weapons, there was a sense that we could that we could do this militarily. Now i think what were seeing is this does not change the considerations. It is not going to end the war. We need diplomacy, not war. Phyllis bennis, thank you for joining us tonight. I really brought it. Thank you. Coming up, the war inside the white house between steve bannon and Jared Kushner whom. Do you think who do you think is going to win
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Jared Kushner said to sorry. Steve bannon said to Jared Kushner, heres the reason there is no middle ground. Youre a democrat. There he is accusing Jared Kushner of the worst thing he could possibly be other than jewish in Steve Bannons mind, a democrat. Well, i want to know if Jared Kushner returned the favor and said you know you said you were running a platform for the all the right which is part of a conservative Movement Made up of White Nationalists. Are you a racist . Are you a White Nationalist . They can go back and forth. I think the real problem is not kushner, bannon, Reince Priebus, kellyanne conway. Its not anyone. Its donald trump. They are trolling about because at the core of the white house there is no core. Donald trump has gone back and
forth on many key policies. Health care, tax reform, abortion, middle east, you know military action. Because he doesnt give strong directions about ideas because he doesnt have is a lot of ideas and because its never about his ideas, its just about him, he leads you know, it leads to this sort of battleground where anybody who gets him on the right day or shows him the right video image can win a policy argument. That raises the stakes and creates a lot more chaos. We saw in the health care fight it doesnt tend to work. Jonathan swan, the seen here of the president saying to priebus and bannon, work this out, not saying that to Jared Kushner is there any indication in any of your reporting that the president is putting any pressure on Jared Kushner to find the solution to this relationship . My understanding is he has told them to cut it out. Hes sick of seeing this. Its really the last week has just become the tension was sort of building, but this week has just been ridiculous. There are stories from both sides. Give us the most ridiculous example of how ridiculous it has become. You know, you have got stories now of like Steven Bannon saying to the president , i want to take my skills elsewhere, if you dont like me. Anyone who knows steve bannon, he doesnt talk like that, doesnt say sentences like that. Whoever put that out there its not something steve bannon would say. He doesnt talk like that. He is a much more blunt instrument. There is leaking on both sides. The president is frustrated. My understanding is there is going to be some sort of kumbaya. Who knows if this thing is going to work. I dont want to hear steve bannon singing. We are done with it on the. Thank you both. Sure shy if you hate
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bill oreilly has lost advertisers every day this week, including today. One of the companies that stuck through stuck with him as long as they could this week. This is after the New York Times reported that 13 million in sellingments have paid by fox news and by bill oreilly to women who have accused him of sexual harassment. Angies list announced its decision to drop advertisingan the Oreilly Factor saying we are no longer advertising on the program. And angies list, i watched this on twitter all week. They were pressured and pressured, and pressured. Rosie odonnell leaned on Ain Angies List on twitter. It succeeded. I think ays list dropped oreilly. Earlier this week i think ays list was saying it wasnt their policy to judge the content of shows that they were advertising on. Oreilly has not said a word about this on any night this week on his show. Not one word. More than 50 companies have