take away from how things were handled by and for president clinton including mistakes that he may have made that he should avoid? the biggest thing is he should be quiet. he wasn t doing that today, with what, 16 or 18 tweets. and let the staff, his political and legal staff, run impeachment. he needs to run the government. he has a reasonably good economy. he s taking no advantage that have. he needs to just be quiet. you talk about his team running things, but there s been talk from the beginning about what the clinton war room was, we talk about this with joe lockhart all the time. it was only recently the trump administration added some advisers to help them deal with the messaging. and the advisers they added look pretty on tv but they re not adding anything to the strategy. and there isn t a strategy yet, which is apparent. and what has happened is, there s some big cracks. pelosi passes achievement,
because a year ago he had done a raid and said they re not going to try this again, 0 are if they do, we d come back at them. there wasn t much question he would come back at them. i agree with general think it wo do this with allies. that s a nice sign. but i think the real problem we have going forward is we don t have a syria policy. this issue is getting worse and worse. we re seeing iranian encroachment in these sunni-arab lands. there is a lot of concern right now where the middle east is going and we need an administration that knows how to pay some attention. we learned there is going to be an all-senators briefing tomorrow by defense secretary mattis. what might we learn from this all-senators meeting, if anything? probably very little. i think ambassador hill s entirely right, there isn t a strategy. i m sort of sympathetic to the administration. it s hard to know what we could do. assad is on the verge of
for iraq and actually in some respects the president s strategy in the middle east is a little bit secrets friendic, he did a deal with russia in syria which gave shelter to iran and jihadi s. paul: cease fire in northern israel. he came up with the big speech saying, you know what, we are going to contain iran s ambitions in the middle east. there isn t a strategy, the war on islamic state has not been won. we still have thousands of fighters straddling twine syria and iraq and as general keane said in many, many countries around the world and, look, i just don t think you can get rid of the isis threat in syria without getting rid of assad and it s the truth that this administration doesn t want to talk about but i m afraid to say, paul, i think that s i think that s how it is. another potential casualty that both secretary of defense mattis and nsc director mcmaster
crisis. all of this ties into, in trump s mind, i m sure, immigration, the problem with radical islamists either coming to europe or coming here and the problem that syria creates on that. but i don t think you re going to see donald trump dramatically engaging syria. i think you ll see more engagement but nothing anywhere near what s concerned about on the right. should this be a concern for him that some of his supporters in the conservative media and i presume conservative voters are distressed an think his campaign has been hijacked by the neo-cons or jared kushner or whom ever? i think the challenge for donald trump speaking broadly about his politics is that his approval rating is below 40%. while that s not the totalist his support certainly it s a portion of it. what he hasn t adjusted to is what every president has to do which is how to out how to work with people who disagree with you. we don t know if this is part of a larger strategy. if you listen to nikki haley you
not enough. it turn out that the russians did not honor that agreement. and this strike is something that begins, i think, our conversation with the russians about the removal of all of the chemical weapons. which they did not complete. and i do agree that the strike was a good moment but that s a tactic, not a strategy. we need a comprehensive strategy now as to how we re going deal with syria. thus far we ve not heard that articulated by the government of the united states of america. congresswoman tulsi gabbard from hawaii warns against the strike. she warns it could lead to a nuclear war. she said this escalation is short siegtd and will lead to more dead civilians, the strengthening of al qaeda and other terrorists and nuclear war between the united states and russia. is that a concern? well, i think the greater fear is that we just create another iraq, that we put ourselves into another civil war