about this. russian sanctions will be coming down, secretary mnuchin will be announcing those on monday, if he hasn t already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment relate today assad and chemical weapons use. jillian: your reaction? i think sanctions are absolutely appropriate at this point. you ve got several elements of of power, you the military element, the economic element, you ve got the diplomacy and these sanctions are very, very appropriate and i wouldn t be surprised to see even more. you know, russia s economy is teetering at this point. they ve overstretched their limits in the ukraine and and they really overstretched their limits in syria as well, so i wouldn t be surprised if president trump is not taking a play in reagan book, bring the russians into compliance and make them good actors in the
today, david. reporter: good morning, rob, we are on the israeli side of the border, not far from where i am standing the israeli government has a listening post, they very closely are monitoring the events in syria, take a look over my shoulder and you can see off in the distance some of the syrian villages, only a few hundred yards away from the border while the israeli government has endorsed the air strikes there is a sense here that they did not have a make meaningful difference on the ground. syrian forces have continued operations against rebel-held territory and some of the area you re not looking at is still held by rebels and many analysts believe this area could soon be in cross hairs of the assad regime. meanwhile in the capital demascus, 40 miles from here today people took to the streets for a rally that was broadcast live on state tv. people carried flags, they shouted ala, syria, and bash or,
is, do we really do? the president has made that very clear, he came into office without a policy, i mean, there had been no policy for over eight years in syria, he s developing one and it s a work-in progress, that s absolutely for sure. rob: let me clarify on that question because obviously chemical weapons seems to be a policy right now but what s the difference in how you kill people if it s a chemical weapon, is it different he slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in the country most of which have not been done with chemical well, why is chemical weapons the line? i get that point also but chemical weapons are different, they do not target combatant members of the military, they kill innocent women and children and we saw that in the horrifying videos that we saw last week, but the president has made it very clear that the assad regime is not going to be tolerated in doing this kind of
have to show the russians have to show the syrians we are your patrons, we are not going to stand by. all of this maneuvering is about post isis syria. they both assume isis is going to be wiped away fairly soon. the question is, will syria, will assad be able to restore with the russians and the iranians full control over the country including the part that s now isis or will that be a kind of semiindependent rebel territory and the assad regime will be a mini stage. that s what this maneuvering is about. i don t expect were going to have a conflict with the russians. but we are going to have a long tussle on the ground with the forces who support assad, the forces we are against taking over in the absence of isis. james: i don t think we will have a question about an answer about the question what a post isis looks like.
have to show the russians have to show the syrians we are your patrons, we are not going to stand by. all of this maneuvering is about post isis syria. they both assume isis is going to be wiped away fairly soon. the question is, will syria, will assad be able to restore with the russians and the iranians full control over the country including the part that s now isis or will that be a kind of semiindependent rebel territory and the assad regime will be a mini stage. that s what this maneuvering is about. i don t expect were going to have a conflict with the russians. but we are going to have a long tussle on the ground with the forces who support assad, the forces we are against taking over in the absence of isis. james: i don t think we will have a question about an answer about the question what a post isis looks like.