you inject these claims and into the public sphere and then you don t follow-up. if i run a piece by your neighbor saying ben shot somebody, don t i have an obligation when you get acquitted to cover that story. why doesn t you? some of them are very, very hard to confirm or knock down. discussions between vladimiro putin and his aide. cohen was straightforward. tucker: and carter page s life was destroyed. he can t get a job. considered a russian spy and never been charged with anything. your dossier added to the perception he is not a loyal person. we know he didn t take up $11 million, that is untrue and you spent all the time you talked about the trump tower in moscow and this guy lives with this claim against his name and you have not corrected it. we reported on carter page and his contact with russian
platform. you are not running google. you are running a news site. you inject these claims and don t follow-up. if i run a piece by your neighbor saying ben shot somebody, don t i have an obligation when you get acquitted to cover that story. why doesn t you? some of them are very, very hard to confirm or knock down. discussions between vladimir putin and his aide. cohen was straightforward. tucker: and carter page s life was destroyed. he can t get a job. considered a russian spy and never been charged with anything. your dossier added to the perspension perception he is not a loyal person. you talked about the trump tower in moscow and this guy lives with this claim against his name and you have not corrected it.
president obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand, the syrian disaster would have ended long ago. animal assad would have been history. back in 2013, if you ll recall, trump had a very different message for obama, trump calling on him to stay out of syria following two chemical attacks there. then there was this in 2014. you look at syria, the line in the sand. remember the famous line in the sand and nothing was done. not that it should be done and not that we should be involved, because we shouldn t be involved. but you don t say we re going to do this or that, and then they do it and then you don t follow up. by the way, i don t want them to follow up but you never should have made the statement. we are in very, very serious trouble. back with me again. hello again. cnn political analyst julian zelizer and ryan lizza.
it s not my problem. kicked out of the school it s not my problem. he s not my friend. is he not my problem. i m not friend with his parents. it s not my problem. next thing you know he is everybody s problem. here s the problem though, brian, we see this with normal terror attacks as well. we have fbi and other agents who say we were watching this person. we knew that this was happening. we knew something was forming, but they don t follow up. and i think part of the problem is that we have normalized this behavior. we re so used to it happening. okay, maybe he was being a little crazy. but you got to start taking this stuff seriously. how many attacks have to happen before we follow up on this stuff. steve: you look at all the disturbing images on his instagram account and social media and combine that with apparently one of the mayors down there said the shooter had been treated at a mental health facility up until about a year ago and then he just stopped going. they had been try
bombs, that s possible but obviously difficult because russia is much more involved than it was years ago so you have to be very careful not to ininvolve or antagonize a worse situation but there are ways to do this and as you know the united states and allies fly all time over syria trying to attack isis, so those things are possible and as you know israel over the years has taken its own unilateral action against president assad when it is deemed assad to have threatened israel s interest, so it s doable, the question is is there a will? and many are saying if you make these statements and then you don t follow-up, then again, it puts you in the position of creating this vacuum, creating this impunity and emboldening those who would use any excuse to attack their own people. it s exactly what president