Sons of history and our relationship with Vladimir Putin. Dine feinstein joins me to explain the scope of the first congressional probe into these allegations. And with the fbis email investigation under investigation itself, democrats go public with their anger against james koemy. The fbi director has no credibility. Joining me is rich lawrie of the national review, he lean cooper, Jeffrey Goldberg of the atlantic and Daniel Pletka of the American Enterprise constitute. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good nday morning on this Martin Luther king jr. Weekend anth last sunday of the obama presidency. Even before john lewiss explosive statements denying Donald Trumps legacy of president , monday president elect trump in effect challenged decades old laws against nep tich by hiring his soninlaw. Embarrassing but unverified accounts of Donald Trumps accounts are published by buzzfeed. Thursday, the Justice Departm
was asked why the death of innocent men, women, and children from a chemical weapon warrants a u.s. response, the deaths of more from barrel bombs not warrant a military response, and that s when secretary maddis said what they ve all been saying. it s all about chemical weapons. even in world war ii, chemical weapons were not used on battlefields, even in the korean war, they were not used on battlefield. since world war i there s been an international convention on this. he didn t mention vietnam for a reason. he knows how much it was used in the vietnam war by the united states of america. the use of nay palm was chemical war fair. it was the product of the dough chemical company.
done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. and you would have had a much better, i think, syria would be a lot better off right now than it has been. makes sense. if you think that makes sense, remember that the same donald trump saw chemical weapons used in syria before in much worse chemical weapons attack. he said then that president obama should do absolutely nothing about it. so we don t know why donald trump changed his mind about that. what we do know is that a president mired deep in scandal, involving russian influence in his election, fired off some harmless missiles at the end of a very bad scandal week for him. and we also know that president assad has killed many more people in much worse attacks that did not involve chemical weapons. today, defense secretary maddis
try and convince the russians that they have to get rid of assad, which, basically, had been the policy of the obama administration and now we re all waiting to see what s going to happen, if he s going to meet with putin in moscow. really significant today as all of this drift sets in about what u.s. policy actually is, you saw the defense chief, secretary of i m sorry, secretary of defense jim maddis, the head of central command come out and define this strike, this whole policy in the most minimal terms, that this is re-establishing a deter rent and a cost for assad using chemical weapons in the future. and meanwhile hundreds of u.s. troops laboring and risking their lives in syria in the middle of this, not knowing what the policy is or what missile strikes into the country in
he said that there was a process underway to get rid of assad, mean, at that point, hours before this missile strike, was the u.s. talking about an actual military campaign to oust assad and now thoroughly going even beyond where he had been before as bewildering as that is, to try and convince the russians that they have to get rid of assad, which, basically, had been the policy of the obama administration and now we re all waiting to see what s going to happen, if he s going to meet with putin in moscow. really significant today as all of this drift sets in about what u.s. policy actually is, you saw the defense chief, secretary of i m sorry, secretary of defense jim maddis, the head of central command come out and define this strike, this whole policy in the most minimal terms, that this is re-establishing a deter rent and a cost for assad using chemical