accurately stated, the ways in which sentences are constructed and the extent to which details are context materialized can suddenly lead readers astray. after the first day of unrest, for example, the new york times present edition led with the headline confrontations with gaza fence leave 15 people dead. a rather ambiguous headline that on secures what did what to whom and y.try to find same story on line and it now reads israeli military till palestinians at the border and while the president condemned the attack in syria he hasn t said anything about the conflict on the israeli-palestinian border. we condemn leaders and protesters who call for violence and who send protesters, including children, to the fence knowing that they may be injured or killed. instead, we call for a renewed focus by all parties on finding solutions to the dire humanitarian challenges facing
nodes, send a stronger deterrent than hitting the elements afill the with this political attack. at the same time we have to go to the russians and the international community with a very strong message to moscow that says don t mess with us. we re going after the person traitor of a heinous monstrous act against defenseless innocent civilians. if you get in our way we ll come after you. that s where i m not sure that the white house is prepared to go. colonel jacobs if you were in syria and watched the u.s. response last year, are you at all deterred by the minimal response that the united states launched? i mean, would you be at all concerned this time around? no, i don t think so. may very well be. there will be attacks on military nodes, command and control nodes. i don t think you ll be deterred if you re bashar assad, and one of the reasons is that you re fighting an existential fight in that country, and you re not going to be deterred by
anything. you re support bid russia. you re supported by iran. i don t think there s anything short of direct attacks on assad and that will deter them at all. i don t think it s going anywhere. sadly to say that the killing is probably of innocent civilians in syria is probably going to go on for sometimes. doctor, jeremy bash and jeremy lederman, thanks so much. coming up, syria one of the topics that the president was on a tweet storm about today including a new attack against the fbi. we re going to look at that, and the president dismissing all of the criticism about his embattled epa administrator scott pruitt standing by his name at least for now and more on that next. captivating exteriors dynamic lighting elevated comfort
or from one certain citizen, a certain man at the time, donald trump, sending out a series of tweets urging obama not to attack syria. ultimately in september of 2013 obama reached a deal with russia to curtail syria s chemical weapons. fast forward to 2016, presidential campaign candidate donald trump focused on an america first message with little appetite with foreign intervention in syria or elsewhere, but as president trump soon faced with his own syria crisis, well, that changed. one year ago dozens were killed in a chemical attack. the pictures from that attack seeming to affect the new president deeply. it crossed a lot of lines for me. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line, many, many
president s response on social media that he called out vladimir putin by name and that was a turning posture in the president s posture on putin after months of saying he wanted to work with russia on the issue of syria. safe to say that the president is changing his his posture. a lot of things. this is the problem for the aren t. can t really have it both ways. you can t say we re going to pull out. only care about defeating isis and all of our troops are going home and we ll be tough on assad and stand up to putin and his influence in the middle east at the same time when he s essentially going to be ceding syria s future to some type of political process in which putin, russia, assad, turk to, iran, are going to have a much