there is some uncertainty in the global community about who did conduct those attacks. you did not see a lot of signatory to the iran nuclear deal besides the uk pointing the finger at iran the way that the united states did. now the question is how is president donald trump going to respond? he has exhausted a lot of his nonmilitary options and imposed a very strict sanctions regime on iran and designated the irgc as a terrorist group, so he is running out of options here and this, of course, is coming at a time when his national security team has been 24ithinned out ane does not have a national perm security adviser or a national director of intelligence so difficult for a policy situation that president donald trump finds himself in. sarah westwood, thank you. bob mcnally, you worked to protect the facility while president bush s national security council. did you see something like this coming?
susceptible to pushback on this issue. i mean, republicans almost never push back on anything trump does. but when they do he always caves. every single time. if the republicans in congress were anything like, you know, the tories in britain that have been standing up to boris johnson on matters of principle as he pursues this brexit thing, if the conservatives in the united states were anything like the conservatives in britain standing up to their leader when they disagreed with him on stuff, we would have a completely different political situation in this country. we would have a completely different policy situation in this country. trump always caves when republicans push back against him. the reason we are where we are is republicans almost never can be bothered to push back. but that may end up being an important dynamic going forward in a big developing story tonight that we are following along with help from a couple of very well-informed guests who are going to join us in jus
this has been a complicated effort in syria. all experts agree it s not over. isis remnants are still there. so the president is changing his tone and i think that confuses moderate muslims, the kurds among them, who are fighting extremism, you know, shoulder to shoulder with u.s. troops. this is a very confusing message from the white house. and after meeting with the president sunday, republican senator lindsey graham suggested that the president has a, quote, better understanding of the stakes in syria and that he has agreed to re-evaluate his plan. let s listen to what he said. i think we re in a policy situation, we re re-evaluating what s the best way to achieve the president s objective of having people pay more and do more. after discussions with the president and general dunford i never felt better about where we re headed. i think we re slowing things down in a smart way but the goal has always been the same, to be
it is the most severe and by far the longest running red tide we ve seen in recent years. john scott is the vice chair of a local sierra club chapter. he s concerned about what s happening on the coast and in the rivers. blue-green algae is a big concern, incredibly toxic, on par with poison dart venom or other types of convenient um, like cobra venom. i ll protect our clean air and water, not corporate polluters. dealing with the algae blooms and the red tide we ve seen, this is going to be a priority. the issue is front and center in races across the state. most notably in the u.s. senate race between bill nelson and the current governor, rick scott, who picked up a new nickname, red tide rick. and it s fair to blame rick scott. he savaged environmental safeguards. bill nelson made a pledge 30 years ago to solve this problem, but nelson s a talker, not a do not a doer. any indication there might be a policy situation, any hope, is there any hope?
a policy situation, any hope, is there any hope? yeah, the midterm elections, that s a big hope. if we can get even some of the people trying to get elected elected who care about our environment, that will go a long way towards making progress on the policy front. yet another great piece of reporting from our own trymaine lee. thank you for that. coming up, another issue cropping up ahead of the midterm elections tonight. new charges against a russian national alleging election interference for the midterms. that s next. migraine with botox®.