to save their coalition allies. back to you. shannon: benjamin hall in turkey. bill: what is the administration s ultimate goal in syria. john bolton, good morning to you. you could write chapters today. what does the u.s. transmit to vladimir in moscow this week? if anybody believes that telling vladimir putin that bashar al-assad is a ruthless thug, that his administration is filled with ruthless thugs and doing ruthless thug things to the syrian people is not going the produce a reaction in vladimir putin. he couldn t care less. what does he want in syria? he wants the russian naval base and wants the new russian air base there. and i think he will do next to anything to keep the assad regime in power. there is no chance that i see
the 73rd hole. after so many years, once and for all for sergio. bill: sergio garcia finally winning a major tournament after two decades of heartache. he overcomes a two shot deficit against justin rose. great match here. garcia had played in a record 70 major tournaments which means british open, u.s. open, masters and pga championship before finally winning yesterday in augusta. a great champion. almost as good a golfer as bill hemmer. bill: not even close. shannon: i didn t watch. i was on the train but watching it on twitter. bill: it was a gorgeous, gorgeous time. the first two days of the tournament they had rough weather and brings these spectacular golfers down to earth a little bit but saturday and sunday was spectacular.
that s when police believe he robbed the armageddon gun shop in janesville, wisconsin. he has assault rifles and high-end handguns and believed to have body armor and helmet. he wrote a 161 page manifesto ranting about government and organized religion and sent the manifesto to president trump after posting a video on social media. april 4th, 2017, 5:43. bill: at a press conference they say he had become highly agitated by the state of national politics and told an associate of plans to carry out an unspecified attack after stealing guns. after the guns were stolen from
widow and son of the late just is antonin scalia. they re all joining at the white house next hour for the ceremony in the rose garden and the oath will be administered to gorsuch around 11:00 by justice anthony kennedy who gorsuch used to be a law clerk for, his old boss. bill: what does he have on this plate? after this morning it s a big deal. what next? after this morning, bill he can start hiring his own staff and bringing in his own clerk to the court and then he can get to work. the high court this term is expected to hear some important cases concerning religious liberty and it is possible that arguments about president trump s executive order on immigration could make their way here to the supreme court this term as well. bill: thank you, peter.
friend, congress needs to work with the president to try to deal with this long term strategy lack of strategy in syria. we haven t had one for six years during the obama administration. bill: we hear from senators on both sides. he is saying that president trump needs to work with congress on future action in syria. fox news contributor, byron, good morning to you. you lay it out in theory, yes, in practice, no. in theory the president needs permission from congress to make war. in practice that s not been the way it s worked out. we ve had a couple of authorizations for military force in the last 20 years. one was for the war in iraq. the other one was after september 11th declared war on al qaeda and that authorization to use military force has been extremely flexible. presidents have cited that in the years since for several military actions. in other words, they ve said