policy allow the mass murder of women and children to continue as long as it s carried out with conventional weapons and not chemical weapons? well, i think that s just a very unfair question. in what respect are you asking that? chris: well, what i m saying is that we are saying that any use of chemical weapons we are going to respond to but we are not saying that about conventional weapons and assad has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his people, why are are we drawing a distinct to assad saying it s okay to do with conventional weapons but we will object if you do with chemical weapons? i don t think we ve ever said it s okay, period. there is no way that any american or the president would ever say it s okay to kill women and children. i think that we have a lot of issues in the world and i think we are trying to put out as many fires as we can, but we can t control what a country does to its people. we can condemn it, we can
bombs. chris: jonah. i think john bolton s position is one that we need to give some credence too, at least acknowledge in so far as he s not for nation building and democracy spreading but he is america first, interventionist america first and he sees, i believe, the syrian civil war as a way to bleed russia resources, the way to bleed iran s resources, diminish their role in the region and that s one of the reasons he was more eager to get involved in this as a way to push back on iran. chris: how do we bleed russia s resources, iran s resources without bleeding our own which we have seen in afghanistan and iran? that s the pickle. [laughter] having limited strikes and that s why secretary mattis pushed for such limited targeted strikes. chris: couldn t you argue that this morning as putin wakes up at the kremlin, homeai wakes up,
back to what they remember. the kids talked about about where they used to play and what they used to do, the adults talked about the fact that that s where they were born, that s where they were raised. there was a real emotional string to syria and i think we need to be conscious of the fact that s really where they wanting to. chris: let s talk about the overall strategy for syria because a couple of weeks ago president trump talked about a very fast pullout of troops there, take a look. we are knocking the hell out of isis, we will be coming out of syria like very soon. let the other people take care of it now. very soon. chris: president trump reportedly we wanted to get all 2,000 u.s. troops out within 48 hours and had to be persuaded by folks at the pentagon to keep them there for a couple of months which raises the question what is our goal in syria and what is our strategy to get there. well, i can tell you because i was in the national security council meetings with the
response? that is totally up to assad, what i can tell you is the president has made it very clear that when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, we have no tolerance for it. we are going to watch out for the best interest to have american people and so he made a point and hopefully assad gets it. if assad doesn t get it, it s going to hurt and i think what general mattis was saying was these strikes happened basically responding to their continued use of chemical weapons, but, of course, if assad continues to go forward, there will be more and it will hurt and i think that he has a lot to think about. chris: i want to pick up on that because there were certainly indications since the first strike in april of last year that assad had used chemical weapons an there had been no u.s. response, this particular case last weekend was especially egregious and horrific, but are you saying that going forward that any use of chemical weapons by assad will trigger immediate
you, thanks for taking the time with all you ve got going on right now. we will stay on top of the latest developments. great, thanks so much. chris: up next sunday group to discuss the situation in syria and where the u.s., our allies in europe and adversaries in russia and iran go from here he s trying to tell us something. let s see what forensics thinks. sorry i m late. what did i miss? wanna get away? now you can with southwest fares as low as 49 dollars one-way. that s transfarency. you re smart,eat you already knew that. but it s also great for finding the perfect used car. you ll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. now you re even smarter. this is truecar. sarge, i just got a tip. that ll crack this case wide open! turns out the prints at the crime scene- awwwww.did mcgruffy wuffy get a tippy wippy?