administration signaling to the sunni arab world america s old policy is back, we re looking to contain iran, we are going to increase sanctions against designated terrorist entities affiliated with the irgc and hezbollah and it s very interesting this is taking place 48 hours after the united states, for the second time only in the history of the syria conflict, went after not really even pro-assad proxies but iranian built milt shahs who are waging a bold race against a special forces base. that sore te was an exercise in hard power and everything we saw here was a reemphasis of what america is planning to do in the coming years. selena, in your view, does this meeting, does this language between the two countries, help put the u.s. in a better position particularly as donald trump tries to take a stand on syria, make a bigger imprint of
about this and would hand over the chemical weapons supplied to international control, the u.s. would stand down from a strike? jake, we just saw the russian proposal and of course, we are going to look at it carefully, and we ll talk to the russians about it. of course, at the end of the day, anything that involves syria giving up in a verifiable manner its chemical weapons and having them destroyed would be a very good thing. that s the purpose of what we re trying to do. we re trying to make sure that syria can t use these weapons again. but just a couple of things. we know that over the past couple of decades, the international community has tried without success to get syria to sign on to the chemical weapons convention, something that virtually every other country on earth has signed on to. as recently as last week r, ass wouldn t confirm he had chemical weapons, let alone used them against his own people. we have tried to work with russia in recent months at the united nations
weeks to speak out? well, today because she was at a public event and it was she was previously scheduled to be at. and she has another one tomorrow or the next day. so it was clear that she was going to have to say something. she can t walk into the white house in the middle of this conversation as former secretary of state and not say anything. it would have been odd. so that s why now. and i think, look, i think she did give credibility to two things. one, she said that, you know, if you can get the syrians to give up their chemical weapons, right, that s a good option. that s the objective of all this anyway. the second thing she said was this wouldn t have happened without a credible threat of a strike. obviously, assad is listening to what s being discussed here. he s taking seriously the threat that he may see some missiles coming his way soon, and he would like to stop that. how do you think the presidential messaging has been on this? i ve heard from democrats and re
she seemed to give gravity today to this possible third way in syria. how are her comments today being interpreted? well, they are being seen as an endorsement of that option, and as you say, another shot in the arm for that approach, but at the same time, i can t tell you that anybody who is a serious foreign policy hand really thinks that that option will work. everybody believes you have to acknowledge that we should that the nation should give the non-military option a chance, so everybody is considering that, all the serious people are considering that, but nobody really thinks that it will come to pass. jessica yellin, thank you so much. as a quote unquote private citizen, hillary clinton didn t have to weigh in publicly on this conflict, but she did. two weeks after we first learned of the alleged chemical weapon attack. political analyst and former press secretary to the clinton administration deedee myers joins me now. why today, and why wait two
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