Point out that a lot of people called us the carrot and stick policy. They are getting the fable wrong, because the boy tied the carrot to the end of the stick and held it in front of the donkeys nose in order for the donkey to move ahead. He never had the donkey with the stick. One other point harris this donkey might get hit. Is that your point . Not with a stick, a baseball bat. One other piece of news, john kelly, the Chief Of Staff who was thought to be on the way out, calling him battle and Everything Else in the sun, the president the day after his one Year Anniversary of Chief Of Staff and asked him to stay on through 2020, and john kelly said that he will stay on as chiefs of staff. Harris in Case People Were Tuning in with regard to iran, not to make anything light, but the president has really gone tough with rhetoric, and now the opportunity, the timing, their economy is in deep trouble. He says that i know things are tough, maybe you have time to talk. Do not miss some of
Can realize if we want to fix syria and help the israeli ed/palestinian situation and fix the carnage in yemen, we have to go to the source that is iran. harris: some breaking news, forgive me as i looked down, this is read all over the associated press, facebook incorporated says it has removed 32 pages, accounts from facebook and instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior facebook says it is early in the investigation and they are looking at all facts, what is happening right now? it is a good place to start, they will end up with a new york times being removed for their activities. [laughs] but the fact is there is a tremendous amount of deliberate, if you will false front activity. this may be specific to russia or some foreign entity, but i
And you say. mark is a friend of mine, he has read into more detail than i am. harris: he said that he and his staff were just briefed on this. vice chairman of the senate select committee of intelligenc intelligence. he like senator feinstein or democrats who put a lot of time and effort into this. i will take their statement as accurate. and there is no question at all, the evil empire may be smaller, but russia is still a doer of bad around the world and a supporter of bad things. including, right candidly, go back to the syria/iran situation, without russia, iran would not have the power to do what they are doing. there is no question behind the closed doors, we know that we have to continue to treat russia just like we did during the cold war, which means that you meet with them, but you trust verify every step of the way. harris: i m about to invite one of your colleagues across the political aisle. i want you on the record, are you concerned about november and
i think all members agree that something needed to be done. some believe that the administration should have asked congress first. what i think lindsey is talking about is a broader strategy for where we go in syria. and i don t think the administration has all the answers to syria. in fairness to them, they inherited a mess. i don t know of anyone that has come up with a plan that could put all of the pieces of syria back together again and deal with the expansion of the iranians, the isis presence that is still there, the interest of the turks, the interest of the russians. it goes on and on. jon: the senate foreign relations committee chairman, bob corker, says he believes it s too late for the united states to have any useful role in syria, that it s going to be carved up by the russians and
jon: we ll see what happens with the troops along the border, whether they end up doing as jerry brown says they will do. have to leave it there. isaac and josh, thank you. thanks. melissa: new reports out of syria. the fallout continues from the deadly gas attack outside damascus. an international chemical weapons inspectors try to reach the site of the attack to collect evidence. benjamin hall is live in turkey near the syrian border. benjamin? yeah, hi, melissa. we ve been here talking to victims of the chemical attack. people that have managed to escape. some have crossed into turkey. we hear about how terrible the night was and the concerted effort by the syrian regime to hide the true fact of that etching. they had been trying to get in and to take some of the evidence from the site, but they have been blocked. what we re hearing is rebels