i ve been looking at the different players, and i ve been watching assad. and i ve been pretty good at this stuff over the years. because deals are people. and i m looking at assad. maybe he is better than the kind of people we re supposed to be backing. he was looking at the different players, players who were trying to kill each other. and he decided he would come down on the side of president assad and cheer him on in his killing spree. someone, someone in the trump administration has found a way to explain at least some of this to donald trump. which is why he said things like this today. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line. many, many lines. of course, no questioner
someone, someone in the trump administration has found a way to explain at least some of this to donald trump. which is why he said things like this today. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line. many, many lines. of course, no questioner could get donald trump to say what he would do about those crossed lines. instead, he just talked about his flexibility. i like to think of myself as a very flexible person. i don t have to have one specific way. and if the world changes, i go the same way. i don t change. well, i do change and i am
but i m certainly not going to be telling you. reporter: after meeting with king abdullah of jordan today in the rose garden, the president threw his own red line on syria, expressing horror about the chemical attack that left women and children dead. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal, and people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that cross kez many, many lines, beyond a red lines, many, many lines. reporter: the primary foegeus of trump s middle east policy, defeating isis while laying the blame for other foreign policy quandaries from syria to nuclear threats at the feet of former president obama, even as he played the blame game today, acknowledging that now he s the one in charge. i now have responsibility, and i will have that responsibility and carry is very proudly. i will tell you that. it was now my responsibility.
thinks, the palestinians aren t ready. if they aren t, this will go nowhere. james: presumably when president al-sisi tells us he is talking to the palestinians, what he means is he is talking to fattah in the west bank and not hamas. in the rose garden today, president trump said his attitude towards bashir al-assad has changed very much. mr. trump wasn t explicit but seem to indicate that this white house is no longer inclined to tolerate a side remaining in power in syria, fueling the comments of yesterday s chemical attack. crossed a lot of lines for me. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were
i think it was something that was not one of our better days as a country. so i do feel that, julia, i feel it very strongly. do you feel you now have the responsibility to respond to the chemical attack? i have the responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. before i move on to the king, can i ask you if the chemical attack crosses a red line for you? it crossed a lot of lines for me. when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line, many, many lines. let s begin with hour with ben wedeman, our international correspondent there live in turkey just near the syrian border. hearing the president trump today then baulking about how he