kasie hunt, thank you. zerlina will be with us after the break. joe biden faces his first foreign policy test of 2020, but will his history around the iraq war be too much for some democrats to take? we ll ask that question next. l t when i book at hilton.com
circumstance. but i defer to experts. i think a, he was briefed how low is the bar, breaking news banner, trump was briefed on iran? are you guys kidding me. go ahead. more significantly number two, i think he was told that he needed to do his best to manage expectations how we were going to react. and the fact he said it could have been a lower level person that did this, in diplomacy circles it s saying, hey, ayatollah, you can say this was a mistake, that it was lower level people and that would defuse the situation. don t you remember when he did that for mbs with khashoggi and we found out it went all the way to the top. color me skeptical. annie karni, i want to get on the record about something that is written, not favorite but truly a foreign policy test for america and the world with the lowest credibility around
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it killed thousands, as his military kept cracking down in a long civil war there. in the u.s., the administration was forced to grow up fast. president trump, after seeing pictures of kids who lay dying, suggesting maybe he was changing his mind on syria. not a lot of people realized how quickly he d go from thinking to planning to acting. the president is right now in the midst of his most serious foreign policy test yet. he says military action is now on the table. this horror has changed his view. i think what happened in syria is a disgrace to humanity. syria, the syrian regime, the leadership of president bashar al assad, are responsible. there is a sense of urgency. announcer: this is an nbc news special report. u.s. military forces have just launched cruz missiles on syria. this is an escalation in an already complicated war. there can be no dispute that
coming up, the political reaction to the big north korean news. what is behind that hard line rhetoric from president trump and what is next after his promise north korea will not be able to put a nuclear head on a missile on his launch? this is his first grave foreign policy test as a president. that s ahead. plus the news that president trump himself through his attorney has corresponded privately with robert mueller who is negotiating president trump s foreign russia ties. and we have new polls. overall, the numbers do not look very good for the president. we ll find out what it could mean for trump, for his party, and for the democrats who of course are hoping to take back the house and maybe more in those mid-term elections next year. and finally, the round table will weigh in on the north korea crisis and more things you may not know. this is hardball.