Scientists now say two thirds of australias Great Barrier reef has been destroyed by rising sea temperatures. This is 100 days, with me, katty kay, In Washington and Christian Fraser in london. Four days after donald trump launched Cruise Missiles against syria, its not clear what else he wants to do in that war, if anything. America today certainly doesnt feel as if its on war footing. And different members of the trump team are saying Different Things about americas syria policy and the future of President Assad. Here is the Us Ambassador to the Un Nikki Haley on sunday. There is not any sort of option where a political solution will happen with assad at the head of the regime. If you look at his actions, at the situation, it will be hard to see a government that is peaceful and stable with assad. But not everyone in the administration seems to advocate Regime Change. Heres us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson with another. What we are hopeful is through this syrian process, working w
relationship is one thing. whether we should go back inside a civil war, the answer is no. i mean, apparently senator mcconnell has not followed events in syria. i hate report this but the syrians won. i think the russians who bombed the civilians are war criminals. they have won the war. us sticking 200 troops in syria isn t going to change the facts on the ground. why pour troops into a situation where you ve already lost essentially, makes no sense to me. eric: we do still have somes troops on the ground. we must think of them and right you are. absolutely. eric: the fact that there s not been an international outcry over what putin has been doing in syria for so long is outrageous and appalling. jim, thank you, as always. arthel. thank you, eric. arthel: senator bernie sanders is back on the campaign block and returning with a high
this president, but i think he has a smart instinct on war in the middle east. he doesn t like the idea of quagmi quagmires. syria isn t how i would have done it, but what is happening now is people who have spent a long time thinking about how they might draw the united states into a conflict with iran, and i m talking about chiefly john bolton, mike pompeo, people in the middle east who would love to have us do their bidding, saudi arabia being at the top of that list. they re setting up a situation where war becomes inevitable. so if they can set up enough tension, enough heat where the iranians make a mistake or deliberately take a swipe at a u.s. naval vessel or whatever it might be, we will be in yet another war in the middle east, which is why this letter to the president is so important because this is the time for everybody to step back, take a
now, the summary withdrawal of our troops from syria isn t how i would have done it, but what is happening now is people who have spent a long time thinking about how they might draw the united states into a conflict with iran, and i m talking about of course, chiefly john bolton, i m talking about mike pompeo, some people in the middle east who would love to have us do their bidding, saudi arabia being at the top of that list. they re setting up a situation where war becomes inevitable. they know enough about president trump to know that if you smack him, he smacks back. that is always true. so if they can set up enough tension, enough heat where the iranians make a mistake or deliberately take a swipe at a u.s. naval vessel or whatever it might be, we will be in yet another war in the middle east, which is why this letter to the president is so important because this is the time for everybody to step back, take a deep breath and make sure we don t find ourselves in yet another disast
talking to the itsraelis. trying to reassure them the u.s. withdraw from syria isn t going to adversely affect their iran strategy. now he s here in turkey and, you know, he s basically saying that this is now a condition-based withdraw. there s a series of different conditions on the ground or policy elements that they want to see in place before they re going to withdraw troops from syria. that s a pretty significant shift from what we heard from the president, from that video clip. has the president, since john bolton made that statement yesterday, has the president said anything? remember, it was after a phone call with erdogan when he said we re going to pull troops. the trump business has wone, maybe two buildings in turkey. he s got a relationship with him. yes, he said the president responded, saying that, you