foreign minister sergei lavrov a diplomat taken a pleasure in tweeting a series of secretary of state now. his message to lavrov will to be pose the question whether shift from assad regime hezbollah and u.s. western countries and middle east states. ed: james, as you know the associated press had sizzling report that russia had advanced knowledge of this chemical weapons attack last week. it seemed to have deep imply implications you are saying the intelligence doesn t back that up. previously we had heard intelligence to the fact that the russians maintained an active presence at this base, which we struck and from where the syrians had launched this chemical weapons attack it would make all too much sense if they did know. late yesterday a senior trump official told me right now there is no consensus within
vladimir putin will not meet with rex tillerson as you were saying. russia and iran are warning they will respond with force if this happens again. and russia blamed the rebels even though the democrats were dropped by the planes that are owned or managed by assad and his government. ed: it doesn t fit the narrative that the democrats have been pushing the last few months. steve: that s right that trump is in bed with the russians. that s why i said a cover story. tucker last night had on a democrat from massachusetts, a u.s. congressman by the name of seth molten. what he was suggesting is that it s just a hypothesis. an alternative high hoth sis. ainsley: conspiracy theory. steve: but because he wants to get out from underneath this cloud that trump is in bed with the russians, maybe trump attacked syria to throw them off. ed: say i m not really close to russia. ainsley: how irresponsible would that be? listen to what he said with tucker last night. one thing to say okay members of
question of how that ends and the transition itself can is very important in our view the durability and stability of a union need syria and stability and durability of the outcome of going forward. that s why we are not presupposing how that occurs. i think it s clear that we see no further role for the assad regime longer term. ed: does that mean more u.s. military action? u.s. hints at tougher stance on syria. rhetoric or military action coming from the trump administration? or is this just public pressure with allies like britain to get the assad family out. remember, assad s father was in power before he was. the other point he makes about stability was very important. you may want to get assad out. that may be a good objective short-term. but long-term who takes over. is isis going to expand their power in syria? it s a mess there right now.
the hospital. ainsley: cover up. ed: maybe coover up the ooattack. they can t confirm that back up the intelligence back that up a.p. report. very tantalizing as you say. fascinating how many months the democrats spent saying donald trump in the campaign, in the transition and first 70, 80 days saying is he too close to putin and too close to russia. when you listen to james report, secretary of state james tillerson is going to moscow and has tough talk for them at the least. also action backing it up. and putin is so mad he doesn t want to meet with the secretary of state. he is saying i m not going to meet with you. steve: if you believe that. or maybe this is all just a cover story. right? ainsley: democrats are saying there is still that bromance between president trump and vladimir putin. i was reading all these articles this morning. and thinking how that can t be farther from the truth. we bombed an ally of russia, assad s family has been backed by the russian government for
ainsley: susan rice is under fire for her claims earlier this year that the obama administration removed assad s chemical weapons. ed: even the washington post fact checkers giving her statement, yes e four pinocchios. steve: so does this further prove her willingness to fbi fib and could it add to her legal problems? let s talk to judge napolitano. she is a serial fibber. she is a public liar. we know that because the lie she told about benghazi the infan must five sunday morning talk shows where she lied about the basis for it she lied will surveying plea and now president trump. now she has a newspaper very supportive of her former boss the washington post saying she lied about syria and chemical weapons. how could this bite her. she is probably going to testify before one or two house committees.