civilians. and if you look at some of the reports from there, syrian civilians, they are concerned that the atrocities may escalate. that assad will take this as license to kill more folks. so i don t think military solutions are going to save lives. certainly no one can question the suffering of the syrian people. so far, in 2018, we know the u.s. has admitted just is 1 1 syrian refugees. more than 15,000 refugees in 2016. should they also be concerned enough to accept more victims of the situation? absolutely. and that is some of the frustrating hypocrisy. i m glad that there are people in the administration who see the horror of what is going on in syria. i don t question their sincerity. it is horrific what is happening. and i hope that they will
curious what your thoughts are about what we just heard from macron today, and that is that he convinced the president to keep troops in syria to not withdraw. ana, before i answer, if i can just say i speak for all my colleagues that our thoughts are with barbara bush and the bush family, she really epitomizes grace and civility. to your point about president macron, my question is, what is our strategy? the problem here is that the president shouldn t be consulting president macron, he needs to consult the united states congress. he didn t come to the united states congress for authorization. just a week ago he was talking about pulling all the troops out, now we re striking. there s no coherent strategy. and i think i speak for many americans, many of my republican colleagues, who don t want us in another war and want our troops back home. so you call the syria strikes a violation of the war powers act. would you have supported the
to or he s handing it off because he has to for some reason. i don t see much evidence for the latter. i see some good reason to say, this is best placed with the southern district of new york, maybe that is a way to pursue that without distracting from the other efforts going on. maybe it is just the proper thing to do. i have seen many attorneys on the program talking about this kind of thing and saying, this is not unusual. this is the way these procedures are usually handled. one thing i can tell you is, mueller is not going to freelance. he s not going to do something that is not traditional, for the sake of being novel. that ain t his style. david priess, thank you so much for your insight. thank you. still to come, poisonous gas below ground, bombs falling overhead. survivors of the latest harrowing attack in syria speak out exclusively to cnn. we ll bring you their stories next. here /
iran in trying to get regional cease-fires in syria. the concern i have is, yes, we struck empty buildings. we did nothing to mitigate assad s power. he s going to go and strike even with greater force than what are we going to do? i don t think the united states should get into another war. and absent us doing that, i don t see a solution other than regional cease-fires with all the multilateral players at the table. congressman ro khanna, we appreciate it. thank you for being here. ana, thank you for having me back on. and now just weeks before the bell, here s cnn s money chief business correspondent christine romans. christine? hi, ana. from trade wars to real wars, wall street has a long list of worries, but this week investors try to turn their attention to the fundamentals. first quarter earnings season is underway. and it is expected to be strong. profit growth for s&p 500 is forecast to rise more than 17%
adversary. they have some cape bability, b the president is not helping with his tweets. you sit on the armed services committee. there are many obviously problems with this. but one is that the potential of this escalating is big. once you send in bombers and fighters. the chance is possible that you lose a pilot. there you go. you re escalating the situation. and you would think at least from what he said in the past this goes against the president s instincts, which are not to get. in too deep. what do you see happening here? there seems to be an meeleme of strategic and tactical confusion. when the president said we re out of syria and out soon, that