Pretty powerful signal, it s probably worth a strike just in and of itself. but i hope we do start talking about a broader strategy, what is it? how can we deny iran and russia, all the influence, the growing influence in syria. just as i was demanding of the oman administration a few years ago, what is your strategy towards syria, i think it s crucial. reporter: members of congress in the house and the senate who receive this briefing separately will be briefed in part by general mattis, probably the one who has the highest credibility of everyone on capitol hill. this is the person they very much want to hear from about this. is it just the gang of eight or is it those on the armed services committee as well? no, katie, in fact as you can see behind me, lawmakers are behind me now, the entire house
His reasons, but his decision to leave early are, quote, because of reflection with my family. paul ryan announced last week that he wouldn t run for re-election there fall. what s going to happen to his seat, will there be a special election? reporter: it s up to the governor of pennsylvania. it s actually a crazy situation, this district was thrown out, the entire state was thrown out, so if they do a special election, it will be under the old map, so whoever has that seat, if they win it in a special election will only have it for a couple of months and then will have to run for re-election in a new district in november. the really crazy thing is that republicans will probably have to spend a lot of money to the governor kind of has wide
Measures. word from his top economic advisor larry kudlow, nikki haley just got ahead of the curve. garrett, what it s the sense of syria on the hill today? reporter: i ve been talking to lawmakers about this all morning, the general sense here from lawmakers of both parties is they are supportive of the president s limited strike on friday night. but they want to know what the plan is going forward. syria has bedeviled two presidents, and now they want to figure out what is the broader strategy here, other than teaching assad a lesson. the dozens of lawmakers i interviewed today, ron johnson summed up best what i am hearing lawmakers say. take a listen. first of all, i want to know exactly what happened, the extent of the damage, the extent of syrian and russian defense systems, were they effective at all? and if they weren t, it sends a
Trump? so our big question today is what could possibly happen next? let s get right to our kaem tea reporters. we are very haphave betsy woodr winter, an investigative reporter who was at that hearing yesterday. and gabe sherman is an msnbc contributor. phil, you re in the hot seat today, because you re the prize winner, i m going to start with you. we have sean hannity coming out as the secret client number three, stormy damaniels is in t courtroom. the president is according to everybody around him very unhappy with this. fact is stranger than fiction in in scenario.