minutes. john, it certainly was baked into the cake that neil gorsuch was going to be confirmed today. a lot of drama up here on capitol hill involving invoking the nuclear option and the controversial procedures that were made up here to get trump s nominee through. but he was indeed confirmed today by a vote of 54-45. only three democrats switching sides and siding with the republicans here. voting to confirm neil gorsuch. vice president pence, he presided over the senate during this vote not because he was needed to be on hand to break any tie, but because it was more of the historical nature of the moment. certainly the white house wanting to highlight that they are certainly notching a big win and getting this nominee through. what s next for neil gorsuch? on monday he will attend a private ceremony at the supreme court where he will be sworn in by chief justice john robert and
the attack. there were also images after a 2013 weapons attack and back then mr. trump repeatedly warned then president barack obama to show restraint again to our very foolish leader, do not attack syria. if you do, many bad things will happen. and from that fight the united states gets nothing. joining me in the studio to stair the reporting and insights, karen, phil matting those pictures were horrific. they would move anybody. but he does have his history. what is it that change thd president? is it the gravity of the job? is it his new national security team or does he realize he s president of the united states now, and i don t mean this disrespectfully, but not a private citizen who can free lance on twitter with no consequences. think he realizes now this is
that. what does that mean? we don t know as of yet. lavrov was the one that was most optimistic saying the relationship is at a low t. doesn t mean it s irreversible. so interesting again for what jeff zeleny was saying. rex tillerson is on the ground middle of next week. they have already figured out what the per paula, as you know, the obama administration tried repeatedly and it was criticized for not enforcing the red line. president trump has drawn anne new red line s. there any optimism on the russian end that you can get back to the geneva talks when it believes assad should say or be a part of any negotiation about the future of syria and the trump station in a week has gone from saying he can stay to now saying it cannot see a scenario where you can have a
florida who says essentially assad is making a calculation now about our new president, president trump, and what he will do next. like anybody else assad sits here and says this is the price for doing this. here s the benefit for doing this. i think for far too long he has said the price of these attacks is i ll get some nasty letter from the u.n. or bad press and the global market. but the benefits are i get to defeat my opponents even if i have to kill a bunch of innocent people in the process. hopefully that cost benefit analysis will have shifted a little bit after last night. do you think the cost ben nit analysis has shifted or will assad just take this as i can use conventional bombs, i can shoot my own people, i just can t use kachemical weapons. he s not a strategic thinker.
declare war. that s what trump said when he was a citizen. when you say it doesn t matter, you re kind of blasting congress . it matters. it s 1.6 million families like mine that have a kid in the military. you can see it s clearly personal to senator the russian ambassador speaking to the united nations. let listen. international stability could be extremely serious. this attack was a flagrant violation of the 2015 memorandum on preventing incidents and ensuring security during our operations in syrian air space and the ministry of defense of russia has stopped its cooperation with pentagon under that memorandum.