we need to be mindful of. what we need to be mindful of is russia will continue to act in their self-interests. and bashar al assad will do anything, anything to survive. we saw his father use chemical weapons 50 years ago. now he s doing that when it looks like he s in trouble. that s what this is about. and it s possible, i think, and we been talking about it all day, it s possible that perhaps the u.s. secretary of state finds an opening here in talking to the russians, in sorting this out in some way, shape or form. america wants bashar al assad gone. russia i don t think really cares who runs syria as long as they have those ports and as long as they are able to continue to sort of dictate the battle space, which they have now for years. well, let s build on what you re saying there, cal. to you on this as we look at the conversation here, give me your thought on the very topic itself here, curtis, of is that a winning headline? what cal just brought up, is that a winning headli
congress? i think that, you know, in these days ahead what the administration needs is, i mean, they just need to get there and get clarification not necessarily clarification but discuss the issues going on in syria because there s clearly a divide. whatever the headline is, i think they just want to show they re communicating and looking to resolve the issue that s been going on in syria since 2011. and obviously they re on two separate sides of the divide on this. all right, beth, cal, katie, kurtis, thank you all four. appreciate it. thank you. up next, more on russia s response to the u.s. air strikes on syria and how it will play into rex tillerson s trip to moscow next week. friends. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i ve always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free. it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. even well fitting dentures let in food particles just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically p
by attack in iraq. that s what led to so many folks fleeing into syria since 2001 when the terrorists were confined on the afghanistan/pakistan border, every time we have intervened in iraq, in libya, it has created more terrorism. and so we really need a justification for what the goal is here. and one would hope we ve learned for the last 15 years of meddling that we ve made matters that are bad worse. what do you make of the reaction as i move on to the other development of this hour and it is a translation of a discussion that happened with rex tillerson, the secretary of state as well as sergey lavrov, the foreign minister from russia, statement in part saying here and i was asking some of our guests earlier this hour the same question, it reads in part here, quote, the minister also noted that the assertions about the syrian armed forces using chemical warfare on april 4th are not consistent with the reality. basically saying this was not a chemical attack. your response to tha
and for mr. tillerson himself, he treads a very fine line. he wants to be tough in showing exactly why america launched those missiles. but he also wants to accomplish the central plank of donald trump s foreign policy toward russia, and that is better relations with moscow. he s already been pretty tough. i mean, he did say a couple days ago that russia was either complicit in syria s chemical weapons attack, or it was incompetent because it knew nothing about the fact that chemical weapons were stored at that base. so he s already talking tough. one of his diplomats of course nikki haley at the u.n. talking very tough at that emergency session yesterday. now, mr. tillerson will come here off the back of the g7 gathering in italy. and he will want to bring a united message from the west to moscow. and interestingly today the british foreign secretary boris
missiles. the cia, which would oversee such operations, told nbc news it could offer no guidance on this option. the best strategy we could undertake if we are forced to reach to a military operation would be some combination of special forces with south korea and cyber. reporter: should all of these options be under discussion? it s mandatory to present the widest possible array of options. that s what enables presidents to make the right decisions, when they see all the options on the table in front of them. nbc s cynthia mcfadden with that report. thank you so much. and whether any of these options are adopted hinges in large part here on what happens with china and whether they agree to put more pressure on north korea. senior officials tell nbc news that for now that issue has been upstaged by military action in syria, but soon enough they expect it to be back front and center. coming up for you, kushner s up, bannon s down. how the reported power struggle in the west wing