right in front of you a village and syrian democratic forces hands. you can see one village over in assad s hands with hezbollah flags flying. 20 miles down the road, there s a town of 80,000 people. so the assad regime is moving all throughout syria. the syrian democratic forces are collapsing. and wherever assad goes, hezbollah goes with him. and that s a nightmare for israel. paul: well and we had the skirmish there recently with iran sending a drone into israel, israel retaliating. right. paul: how regularly is israel bombing in syria to stop the buildup? pretty regularly. the fear is between damascus and beirut there s going to be a corridor where weapons can pass. the environment along the syrian, israeli border, is turning bad for israel at a pretty rapid pace.
right in front of you a village and syrian democratic forces hands. you can see one village over in assad s hands with hezbollah flags flying. 20 miles down the road, there s a town of 80,000 people. so the assad regime is moving all throughout syria. the syrian democratic forces are collapsing. and wherever assad goes, hezbollah goes with him. and that s a nightmare for israel. paul: well and we had the skirmish there recently with iran sending a drone into israel, israel retaliating. right. paul: how regularly is israel bombing in syria to stop the buildup? pretty regularly. the fear is between damascus and beirut there s going to be a corridor where weapons can pass. the environment along the syrian, israeli border, is turning bad for israel at a pretty rapid pace.
less than 22 hours ago, the president unloaded that first strike on the syrian air base. for assad s vicious chemical attack murdering innocent civilians including children. there are more questions than answers. what is the u.s. military mission? is it to remove president assad? and if assad goes, who replaces him? could it be more catastrophic for the syrians? and if trump decides more air strikes, does he need approval from congress? and if there are no further airstrikes, is the message to assad that it is tolerable for him to murder children with conventional weapons but just not with chemical weapons? president trump said he was moved by pictures like this. but what about pictures like this? and tonight this question, should the u.s. rethink its policy towards refugees from syria? are we willing to drop bombs in the name of children overseas, but not accept them on our shores? and what does this all mean for president trump s relations with
private meeting they had at the reception. that key unanswered question has always been, okay, assad goes. well, who then? i mean, that s always been the question. hasn t it? assad might be a bad guy but we ve seen what happens when dictators are thrown out a little too early. exactly. it is the russian and iranian position, by the way, that assad must stay until the syrian people through elections choose a new leadership if they decide to choose a new leadership. of course, the problem with that and this is john kerry s position but also shared by allies like the saudis and the turks is that as long as assad is there, there can be no peace in syria. the war will continue. another big issue is how the heck do you have an election in syria? exactly. exactly. what the opposition says is clear. they do have an extensive plan to choose a set of opposition leaders that would then stand on the opposite side of the table from the assad regime for negotiations and then an election. the
to realize instead of beating up on kurds if assad goes, guess what is coming, what is on border? he they will be overrun by isis next. that is the border to europe. harris: julie, let s get back to the politics. that is part of the journey with the white house. stick your toe in, stick your toe out. with strategy we haven t been able to decipher. how do democrats feel about the fact this is war president? this is president starting new wars? i can t speak for other democrats i m absolutely disgusted with policy for syria. the reason for that? red line should have not been laid down was crossed, no consequences. reality we had no plan for syria. i don t know what the plan for syria. i don t know what the solution is. i also know the white house doesn t have solution. he is trying to manage something up until leaves and next president will deal with it. andrea: we spent $500 million to train five freedom fighters that handed our weapons to al nusra.