this whole thing apparently buttoned up last night when larry kudlow called and had a nice conversation with nikki haley to say i m really sorry. harris: if you are russia, you know the president will on something soon. they saw the missile, hitting syria for a second time after suspected chemical weapons used there. the white house saying there is something coming. we will report the news moving forward, as he said, and tapping your chin. we are moving on. nearly a dozen republic and monikers are demanding attorney general jeff sessions launch an investigation into hillary clinton, james comey, and other former and current doj officials. there s reasons on this and how sessions should respond, lanny davis is here to weigh in on it all. he has a few things to say about
thanks for having me on thomas. well kudos to ambassador hallie, she handled this very deftally and negotiation with china and with the others to achieve a significant sanction step. this is a billion dollars hit taking serious money out of the north korea export earnings. but as she says, it is a significant step but not nearly enough. sanctions cannot coerce north korea into compliance or collapse. they are a a big stick but a stick to do what. what we re lacking still is the rest of the trump policy. what is the end game here? where do you go from here? there is no military option. a strike on north korea is not like hitting syria, you hit north korea, they hit back. and it could only unleash war unlike anything we ve seen. so the goal here should be to go back to the negotiating table
kinds of problems as early. i think he wanted to focus on job creation. but he s got a great national security team. i thought secretary tillerson was perfect when he said look, either the russians collaborate and knew this was happening whether russians were duped and they re just incompetent. but they have to choose one or the other, and i think that second tillerson is going to be very firm tomorrow and say to the russians there is a path forward where we look work together but that path cannot include assad and new, the russian state, have to decide which team you re on. very telling by the way, and the entire world, the only countries that publicly objected to the president hitting syria were syria itself, iran, north korea, and russia. nobody else. so vladimir putin has to feel a little bit isolated at the moment. martha: it s an interesting strategy whom, and as you just pointed out, it is quite different from what we heard from candidate donald trump on the campaign trail.
all of these years of negligent is close to having nuclear weapons within intercontinental capability to reach the u.s., i think he s also made the decision that after a year of being lied to where both president obama and secretary of state kerry claim things that were just plain false that assad really is totally unacceptable. it s very telling by the way, martha, in the entire world, the only countries that publicly objected to the president hitting syria were syria itself, iran, north korea and russia, nobody else, so putin has to feel a little bit isolated at the moment. jackie: u.s. is hoping that isolation will bring them to the table. heather: taking another shot at apologizing to the passenger dragged off the plane.
kinds of problems as early. i think he wanted to focus on job creation. but he s got a great national security team. i thought secretary tillerson was perfect when he said look, either the russians collaborate and knew this was happening whether russians were duped and they re just incompetent. but they have to choose one or the other, and i think that second tillerson is going to be very firm tomorrow and say to the russians there is a path forward where we look work together but that path cannot include assad and new, the russian state, have to decide which team you re on. very telling by the way, and the entire world, the only countries that publicly objected to the president hitting syria were syria itself, iran, north korea, and russia. nobody else. so vladimir putin has to feel a little bit isolated at the moment. martha: it s an interesting strategy whom, and as you just pointed out, it is quite different from what we heard