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Iraq, a war i fought in. getting rid of assad for putting pressure on him to leave don t mean we tear down the state structures in the way we did the iraqi military. it should be our policy preserve order and stability as much as possible. but there is there is a tendency in this debate to frame it between doing nothing and all-out regime change and war. i think that s a false choice that masks the options we have in between. bill: give me an option. we have allies on the ground. a tactical strike in the short term which we have many military options we can use to do that. then over the long term. we have 2,000 troops on the ground in syria if you believe the press reporting. working with at least a 60,000 strong syrian democratic force to seize territory by isis. as we do that we ve seen iranian proxies take some territory. we need clarity with respect to our position in iran and syria. ....
The administrations is to push back iranian. we need to push back iran. bill: that could be happening already. as i read the tea leaves i see inspectors going to the chemical attack. they may be there today or tomorrow. when inspectors do the job you re delaying it not by days by weeks. if it will be delayed it heightens the importance of congress acting to authorize or debate any use of military force in the region. mattis made it clear the administration doesn t feel they need the authority. i disagree and a misreading of the constitution which only gives the executive branch authority to we ve strained congress needs to debate the ....
Advantages that the previous administration didn t. at least for the time being stopping the decembermation of our own military and the president seems to have a good relationship with all aisles in the region. israel, our closest ally and sunni arab gulf states. saudi arabia in particular. there is an historic alignment between israel and the sunnis. the rise of iran in the region. we are the leader against that alliance. we don t have to do anything ourselves. bill: you are making an interesting case. jump forward one moment. i know you make the case to go after assad. what do you do after the end of four or five days of bombing? what is the answer then? because that s the hesitation that people like james mattis are bringing to this debate. where are you on that? i understand the hesitation and learn key lessons from ....
Welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. i m sandra smith on a busy friday morning. bill: f.b.i. agents zeroed in on michael cohen on monday raiding his home, office, hotel room, seizing documents and electronic devices. the president blasting the feds. doubling down on accusations of bias in the russia probe. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge leading this hour. where are we today? what will happen in court? yesterday the federal court in new york confirmed a hearing is scheduled for this morning related to the f.b.i. search of trump attorney michael cohen. the searches included his office, apartment and hotel room. the hearing will reportedly address a temporary restraining order regarding the search warrant. agents seized a computer cell phone and business and financial documents. source close to the trump legal team said the raids were like a bomb going off shattering trust between the parties. this week cohen s attorneys ....
The d.c. bar reinstated libby s law license before any pardon by president trump because they realized that he had been ill treated by the justice system. bill: what does that say about a special prosecutor? ken starr from the 1990s and what is happening now. do you think the president is trying to send a message about a special prosecutor? no maybe, but look. prosecutors are different from each other. patrick fitzgerald was out to get a pelt. my sense is bob mueller is not. if you want some evidence of that, take a look at his treatment of mike flynn. general flynn violated the agreement that he signed when he left the government not to accept money from foreign institutions or foreign governments without prior approval and violated that on several occasions. he took money from the turkish government filtered through a shell corporation and took a half million in order to represent them in a matter here in the united states. ....