arab spring break. not over yet. i just want to make it out tougher. crime is down. a new hoax alert. can you hold for me? hopeful. plus, jake, paul, politics is like a game of cards. you don t pick the cards. you play the hand you re dealtee . after using up their dictator on day one card and the lock , democratss ar upr on are down with only two cards left to play. wit joe biden and kamala har. and around the democrat poker table, the question is, what s the next play? the obvious answer was joe biden. he warned them the first poker game. he won ty not go for a repeat? problem is, everybody sees e the play coming and the biden card, no guarantee. he s lagging with debate prep, skipping out on g-ipping o7 din, and now his son s conviction is hanging over his head. s convicgsources inside of the e house tell the new york times biden s growing more resigned and worried than ever about what the future might hold for his son. and the media is starting to question t
criticism of the lack of a strategy and and and the idea that it s okay okay is the wrong word, i m going to stop saying, that we will turn a blind eye to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands, maybe a half of million civilians unless there s chemical weapon and there s video that the president sees? that s where you find the broader issue there in terms are we going to get drawn into a civil war, regime change, nation building which is what the president said we are not going to do. he s drawn a red line on the use of chemical weapons, he is now acted twice because of that, but a much different story when you will go in, a, confront russia and confront iran and what they are doing to support regime and i don t think that s a line that the president is willing to commit to but we do have to take steps in minimizing the use of these weapons, we ve done it
author of new book suicide of the west. charles lane of the washington post, fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin doing double duty today and former press secretary to vice president pence mark latter. ambassador haley and the new national security adviser bolton wanted a tougher more aggressive response that defense secretary mattis wanted, quote, a show of strike and prevailed with the president, is that true? was there a difference in terms of how they should respond on friday night? i think there s a natural tension between pentagon officials, mattis being in the lead and other national security officials. the defense department doesn t want to broaden this, they want to know when they present their options, they want to know what is the strategy, are we now going to step up into the syrian
his instincts are to get out and let other people handle this but he has now committed to this minimal objective in syria which is whatever else happens, not going to do with chemical weapons. chris: criticism of the president s actions, tweets, strategy as the former top adviser, a top adviser to vice president pence, your response. one thing we need to know this is a different attack than last year, last year was mostly focused on delivery and the methods to deliver the weapons, this time they took additional step by reducing syria s ability to produce the weapon, it was a targeted response to degrade their ability to use these weapons in the future and not just how they delivered them like they did last year, so i think it was a furthering of reducing the likelihood that we are going to see going to see attacks like this in the future. they ll be residuals, we can t guaranty there won t be any left. chris: what do you think of the
weapons which is very small victims of assad, the mission in some ways defined by the fact that we had video. nikki haley said there had been 50 chemical uses which we did not respond. one of the things that donald trump made clear that when there s video of kids suffering he responds to that, that s his red line, i m not sure that s a super coherent strategy going forward because first of all, let s assad continue to wipe out domestic enemies an doesn t change status quo on the ground. chris: she did not commit that if there were other chemical weapon attacks they would spend. i think that might be the case. chris: all right, here is what president trump said announcing the attack on friday night. the evil and the despicable