prosecuted gotti, prosecuted two governors in illinois, a man of impeccable integrity. yet the argument i think the trump camp or conservatives are trying to pivot to win the support of conservatives is that special counsel, by their very nature, are problematic and that you can t control special counsel that they re doing something wrong or that they re engaging in misconduct. and what i will say is that the conduct of president trump certainly seems to strengthen the argument for having not just special counsel but independent counsel to protect special counsel from interference by the political party. kelly, really quickly, this isn t a vacuum, obviously, and there are a lot of politics at stake and there is is a lot of real consequences at stake with what the president is facing with his own special counsel. kellyanne conway is denying the president was sending a message. politically speaking what are you hearing out there? i m hearing some folks saying that it is pretty clear th
roads, sewer systems, demining fields. the idea behind it was to try to rebuild syria as quickly as possible so that there really isn t a vacuum there, there isn t an area where jihadists and other militants can return to to get things up and running there. this surprised a lot of people. it is backed by secretary mattis and other people at the state department who think these type of stablization funds are a necessity for stablizing syria. it s not clear why president trump made this announcement. he all said in the last couple days that he wants to get american troops out of syria. so it looks like there could be a big shift coming on syria/american policy right now. dana: we ll keep in touch with you on that. thank you, conor. we are following new developments in the after math of the fatal police shooting of a black man in louisiana which sparked massive unrest in the state capital. plus this i am here today with my classmates because we have been