some other news, novelist phillip roth has died at the age of 85. he wrote 25 books over 60 years, about a third adapted into movies like the human stain. port nos complaint. they were provocative at the time and debated today though he said his goal was never to be controversial for its own sake. in 69, i published port no s complaint. well, that certainly didn t help. i don t know whether it was written as a provocation. you know, a book comes out of many, many things. and rather far down on the list is the desire to provoke somebody. contemporary write ears today continue to shout out roth as lena dunham did onler show girls. i hear you re reading good-bye columbus ow. yes, i felt it would be the
that he had no knowledge of the payments and now to admit he did that essentially he had made series of 30,000-dollar payments into michael cohen s bank account. you know, we have to say, paul, this is damaging to the president s credibility, both statements could not be true, he s now the president of the united states, he s dealing with larger issues like iran nuclear deal, the north koreans all whom are looking for credibility from the president of the united states, that didn t help. paul: it doesn t help him, bill, i agree with dan on this, if you re trying to say to the american public believe me on mueller, if you lied about stormy daniels look, it doesn t help, on the other hand u did anyone believe this at the beginning? paul: no. but that s another way of saying, nobody should believe the president on anything. a lot of people don t. [laughter] paul: but you can t operate like a president if nobody believes you in crisis? president trump has done that so far and a lot
2001. we could be used thomas jefferson s aumf, going after things like that this, something had to be done, over 400,000 people killed in syria. it s a travesty of what s going on over there. our goal was to have the information that the swiss wanted to do that got vetoed at the un and then take that information and build a coalition, if it was assad and proven to be assad which looks like it is more than likely but then have a coalition to go and deal with that. liz: it almost the other side to go after assad as war criminal liz: that didn t help. that s what had to be done. liz: that all needs to luxury of time and at the beginning of our conversation you said something needed to be done, so what could the president have done here that would have met your approval because you wanted something to be done but you didn t want him to go in?
first, but horrific situation in syria. a horrific event over the weekend, and one that john mccain thinks has its origins in the president s words. john mccain saying over the weekend that president trump last week signalled to the world that the united states would prematurely withdraw from syria. bashar al assad, his russian and iranian backers have heard him. and emboldened by american inaction, assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent women, men and children. is that a fair critique? yeah, i think so. but i don t think assad needed any motivation to do what he did. he has done it before without the president saying we re going to leave. but it didn t help. you know, there is a principle of war called the element of surprise. it s never a good idea by the way, this president s violated it. the previous president did as well. it s never a good idea to tell anybody what you re going to do, and certainly not when you re going to do it. it was a bad id
mccain thinks has its origins in the president s words. john mccain saying over the weekend that president trump last week signalled to the world that the united states would prematurely withdraw from syria. bashar assad, his russian and iranian backers have heard him. and emboldened by american inaction, assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent women, men and children. is that a fair critique? yeah, i think so. but i m not a fan of single factor analysis. i don t think assad needed any motivation to do what he did. he has done it before without the president saying we re going to leave. but it didn t help. you know, there is a principle of war called the element of surprise. it s never a good idea by the way, this president s violated it. the previous president did as well. it s never a good idea to tell anybody what you re going to do, and certainly not when you re going to do it. it was a bad idea. what are our options right now in syria? i th