so i think the way that was done. the way the u.s. military tries to do in the situations. as far as whether or not things came too play. hope they didn t. i ve certainly don t know. there is good reason to try to deter, bashar al assad from carrying out chemical attacks. the types of strikes taken were appropriate. there are questions about the president s constitutional authority. sure he used his article 2 authorities which allows him to take action to prevent arm to u.s. national security. this is different than the strikes we have been taking inside of syria against terrorist elements. isis, al qaeda. a different strike against syrian targets. direct or brennan, rod rosenstein, acting on all russia, he told intimates he is mentally prepared at least to be fired. something that has been long rumored. if that happens, if it happens
robby is a hillary clinton s former campaign manager. scott is a former special assistant to president george w. bush. thank you both for coming on, gentlemen. thanks. thank you. so, scott, i m going to start with you. should republicans who wanted answers about benghazi be just as intent on getting answers about niger? sure. i think we should get answers about what happened. but i think we need to do so under the framework of understanding that we have a lot of personnel in africa. it s clear that the fight against isis, al qaeda, and other terrorist elements is moving into the continent of africa probably more than we know right now. i think there s a lot of sensitive national security issues at play, and one of the things donald trump talked about during his campaign was not telegraphing to the enemy what we re doing and where we re doing it. so i think as we seek answers here, we have to be careful that we re not exposing our personnel in africa to harm s way. do you thin
war rather than any of the diplomatic overtures we should be seeing at this point to try to not only curtail iran s sp in developing the nuclear program which was the purpose and intent of the deal or occur tailing iran s regional activity, whether it s support for hezbollah or any other terrorist activities. those can be and have been addressed with additional sanctions. president levied some today. congress levied some several months ago. the idea of muddling these sanctions and activity against iran s terrorist elements and muddling that with the iran deal is what is very confusing for our partners because it puts them, our european allies in the position of having to now renegotiate and in a very public way without having any leverage or any understanding of what the u.s. goal is in the region. so, general, you travel the world a lot. when you look at actual damage thus far to our alliances,
to the white house statement put out its own statement saying, any remarks by the u.s. about syrian chemical weapons attack represents, in the words of iran, a dangerous escalation that will only serve isis. how does that impact what the u.s. might do? a very strong statement against the u.s. wording from iran, and from russia, for that matter as well. both iran and russia support bashar al assad s regime? if bashar al assad uses chemical weapons, i should hospitalized t hold the iranians and russians account about for this. the russians and iranians should be asking, why would the syrians use chemical weapons? those are the questions they should be asking whether than second guessing or trying to influence our actions. when it comes to iran, their as big of a problem in the region. they re support to terrorist elements in syria and iraq. so this is them trying to divert
fbi is issuing a new warning about possible isis attacks. right here at home. the potential targets, churches and holiday gatherings. bulletin was sent friday to law enforcement after a pro-isis website published a list of churches in the united states. right now, there are no specific or credible threats. but authorities are on high alert in the wake of that terror attack this week, and of course at the market in berlin. meanwhile, teen neegs state tv has just announced three arrests of the attackers. the three men between ages of 18 and 27 are described as terrorist elements. from scandal, political chaos and heartbreak, cnn senior international corporate clarissa ward has a look at the top ten international stories of 2016.