against assad if that s the direction president trump chooses to go? he s the president, and it s important that he develops and clarifies for the american people what policy he s going to be pursuing going forward against bashar al assad. here are my questions, senator. maybe you have the answers. first of all, trump hasn t said anything. he s let everybody else talk. a guy who talks an awful lot hasn t said anything when what he thinks now about assad, whether he thinks this is a one-off, attacking that airfield once or is he going to go at them again? also, not only is there silence from trump, but you re also g getting putin saying there was no nerve gas used. so you really don t have a meeting of the minds yet at all in terms of communication. are you worried we re not going to get a trump statement or that putin is going to continue to lie about this or both? well, i think my first piece of advice to the president would be don t make major statements on this in a tweet. take
let s listen a little bit more to what president obama said to npr on this. i think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action. and we will, at a time and place of our own choosing. some of it may be explicit and publicized. some of it may not be. but mr. putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because i spoke to him directly about it. it s interesting, van. the president is talking as if he has another term. he s got a little bit more than a month left in office. so he can t really say for sure whether there would be a response under a president trump. well, we have one president at a time, which i think we ve somehow forgotten. and, you know the president of the united states for a month, you can do a lot in a month. well, time and place of our choosing, time is short. fair enough.