of action isn t perfect, an action that removes from assad 2,600,000 pounds of chemical weapons begs the question, how many hundreds of thousands of people could he kill that he been able to retain that gas? tucker: a half glassful approach to it. things were joining us. i appreciate it. the trump administration has been sending mixed messages about its goals in syria during an interview today with fox business is maria bartiromo for the president said he did not want to send u.s. soldiers there. were not going into syria. when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons which they agreed not to use under the obama administration but they violated it. a spiel they said they got rid of it. what i did should then brought down by the obama administration a long time before i did it. think syria would be a lot
action that removes from assad 2,600,000 pounds of chemical weapons begs the question, how many hundreds of thousands of people could he kill that he been able to retain thatat gas? tucker: a half glassful approach to it. thanks for joining us. i appreciateoa it. the trump administration has been sending mixed messages about its goals in syria during an interview today with fox business maria bartiromo for the president said he did not want to send u.s. soldiers there. we re not going into syria. when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons which they agreed not to use under the obama administration but they violated it. they said they got rid of it. done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. think syria would be a lot better off right now than it has been. tucker: today, secretary of
an important objective, but it is not in its totality achieve what i hope is going to happen, which is the conditions for an alternative to assad to emerge. i don t think syria is going to be a stable yeun tarry government anytime in the near future, but i do think we can begin to take steps to provide alternatives to asd s rule. you ve got to figure out who will govern sunnis in syria because they will never again to allow themselves to be governed by the government of assad. so much to discuss here. florida republican senator marco rubio, who we ll be seeing so much more of as senate intel hearings get cranked up. senator, please come on again. thank you very much for your time. thank you. standing by for us in washington is chris matthews. chris, i watched your entire broadcast tonight. obviously you had to conduct a
facility. what do you think russia is telling assad? is vladimir putin discouraging them from continuing attacks like this or supporting him? vladimir putin is pretty angry, they are allies, he will not defend what he did but condemn it and say we broke international law and complete the united nations, behind the scenes assad is going to get tough words from the russians. additional action from syria or russia will trigger further american action we see immediate follow-ups to the fence and a response? i don t think syria will retaliate, syria is already engaging rebels to take down the assad regime, the trump administration may follow up if it sees there are additional barrel bombs being dropped or other attacks on civilians it
a lot of people feel like a response for what syria has done is appropriate. and it is striking to me as someone and i want to bring you in in a second. it is striking to me someone who worked on the hill, if i am not mistaken, you were a staff on the senate when almost identical situation happened four years ago when the president decided to go to congress for authorization he could not get the votes. you have i don t know if we have congressman who back then basically said i don t know what comes after it. i m not sold on this. i m a no vote, tonight tweeting god bless the usa, very similar situations. it strikes me what congress wants is they want to be able to issue a statement afterwards saying good job. i think that is right for a large number of members. there are a few fairly