decision on pulling back the troops precipitously out of syria today, which shocked so many was not cleared with our alli allies. once again on many different fronts, other nations are seeing this as serious, not a joke. when the attorney general to the united states goes globe trotting around to places like italy to try to get dirt. when the president is talking to the head of australia. when you have all of the other countries involved it is not a joke. carl, when you look at the way the president is attacking mitt romney, it s not surprising that more republicans haven t come forward. i don t know that that s the reason, the way he s attacked romney. i think that republicans recognize that this president is the president of his base and that that base is very large and that they are in fear of that base and what that base could do to their own election prospects, but i think there s another element here. i want to go back to the whistle-blower or both whistle
alli allies. he always did this in alliance creating these massive coalitions as he always did during the gulf war. he understood having a team as opposed to going alone. he was a two-term congressman when he asked to be bomb nominated to be the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and that kick started a career that took him to washington afterwards. he headed up the cia afterward and became vice president and president. as you look back on his career, reflect on his curiosity about the world. this was somebody who, from his early years, from when he joined the navy at the age of 18 had a real curiosity about the world and the u.s. s place in it, didn t he, ambassador? that s right. he s probably the most qualified president to be president with respect to national security affairs that we ve ever had. and we saw the payoff oefs that, right? he was somebody that knew the
a different world than the soviet union. we can t really stop the rise of china, can we? no, and we shouldn t. what we should be doing is what we have been trying to do for a long time which is to bring china into into a rules-based system and when they violate the rules we need to call them on t it. one of the things donald trump has done rightly is start calling china on the fact they are breaking the rules. they have been building islands in the south china sea for over a decade. there is an international legal ruling and they have continue. xi jinping told barack obama he wasn t going to militarize those places and they did so we need to push back? one, by having a clear sense of your goals. as max rightly says, everybody is all over the place but the second thing is you need your alli allies. the one thing we have that the chinese don t have is allies.
april 2017 attack and today. would you consider a small scale chlorine attack sufficient to launch additional strikes? right now i ll tell you we re in close consultation with our alli allies. we review all the evidence all the time. it is difficult as you know to get evidence out of syria. right now we have no additional attacks planned. but as far as the legal authority, under the article 2 of the constitution, we believe the president has ever reason to defend vital american interests, and that is what he did here tonight under that authority. a couple questions for general dunford. what was some of the targeting considerations or difficulties involved going after chemical facilities, how long did the operation take to plan? and last year s strikes were described as proportional
and uses twitter to attack our alli allies. you can see what happened in germany. you can see his attacks against merkel. now an attack against our most important ally in their time of need. you just wonder, why can t somebody in the white house why can t somebody in his orbit, why can t melania go in there and take the phone and break it in half. when are they doing to learn. top five of his worst cluster of tweets as president, for all the reasons he said, also his own interest you pointed out using the phrase travel ban. a good tweet word because it s om three letters. justify using it. donald, i know you don t watch, so i m not talking to you, you do realize you just keep hurting your self. you hurt your self on the travel