Compared hitler to Bashar Al Assad. Is that enough to stop calls for him being fired . In the drivers seat. My one on one sit down with fords ceo mark fields. His message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. Good morning, everybody. Im ali velshi at Msnbc Headquarters in new york. Rex tillerson and Sergey Lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. The two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a News Conference. We know that there has been tense talk over syria. Todays meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house Intelligence Report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. President Vladimir Putin saying in an interview today, quote, wheres the proof of Syrian Forces using Chemical Weapons . There is none. End quote. Putin also says relations with the u. S. Have, quote, degraded since President Trump took office. President trump had his own criticisms of Vladimir Puti
syrian civil war. but within hours, by the end of the day, john mccain and lindsey graham put out a joint statement saying the time has come to end the bifurcation. that those two cannot be they re inklinked. because iran backs assad, and as long as assad is slaughtering the syrian civilians, the civilians have no chance of defeating isis or a resolution for a greater syria against assad. interesting point you make, kevin. angela, i d like your take on this. people like to draw this distinction. that we re fighting isis, and isis poses a threat to the rest of the world. the assad regime doesn t. and that s a civil war. the united nations takes that view, by the way, and hence, doesn t do anything about bashar al assad, as well. do you agree with kevin s take, that maybe we shouldn t be maybe we shouldn t be drawing such a clear li? that s john mccain s take. ohn mccain s take that kin has given us. well, you know, why does isis
people come out, in hundreds of cities plus d.c. are they going to get those mass numbers or are people starting to lose interest. keep an eye on that. i ll close with this. no secret that shark tank celebrity mark cuban likes to stoke talks about running for president. cuban campaigned for hillary clinton last year. he s become a student of the process of running for president. cuban is an independent. while bernie sanders has proved that isn t necessarily disqualifying to democratic primary voters cuban is putting money where his mouth is. he s giving financial support to a group called competitive democracy. that group is working on ballot reforms in texas and in part because of cuban s financial support it s look took more aggressive in ballot reform he worths elsewhere. that s it for inside politics . thanks for sharing your sunday
displeasure. russian television showing the targeted airbase was back in business. what s next? the trump administration is sending mixed signals. you heard in the beginning of the program, nikki haley saying if he has to do more he ll do more. secretary of state, rex tillerson seems to be saying let s just see what happens on the ground, our big fundamental policy hasn t changed, this is more about isis than it is about bashar al assad. which is it? they are sending mixed messages. i was with the president and white house staff in palm beach the last few days. on one hand you hear officials say that trump is willing to do more to go after assad. at the same time they say there s no broader shift in u.s. policy. i think what we can take away from this is the strike was meant to send a message that trump is a president who is willing to use military action when he feels necessary but that they have not really thought through what this means more broadly. i think that leaves them in a
in the region is that the people who have supported assad during this brutal six year war continued to his support the assad regime. countries that have long oppose them continue to oppose them and support of this u.s. strike on syria and airbase, the bigger question going forward is what happens, does russia, does iran, does the assad regime, do any of them launch any type of retaliation against israel, jordan, turkey? this is limited and precise strike, that doesn t mean that russia, doesn t mean that hezbollah, doesn t mean that the assad regime doesn t in fact look at it that way. there is potential that this could escalate. you re right there, the border between israel and syria, always been such a precarious balance. do you have a sense that these strikes by the u.s. can stay limited? they were intentionally limited to one facility trying to avoid russian and civilian casualties.