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cnn. having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all different countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. but there is something unique to the syrian crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. so and to see hospitals targeted, to see fruit markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. rose: and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. i can t remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were pho ....
. rose: welcome to the program, we continue with our series of conversations about president trump s first 100 days. joining me are mike murphy a political strategist and matthew dowd, a former political strategist, now a political consultant for abc news. if you look at these hundred days, i think there s a lot of thing the trump folks ought to be worried about. matthew and i both eluded to earlier, he s got bad numbers. the president has the toolbox. if you are popular you can pressure the congress. he doesn t have that. he s backed into one part of the republican party that loves him, but even that is not enough in a majority where you can see it in health care now between the freedom caucus on the right and moderates on the center trying to find a middle ground to change obama care which is a tough public policy program am but he is running out of tools. and that s a problem. rose: we continue with clarissa ward senior international correspondent for cnn. ha ....
cnn. having spent time in iraq an afghanistan and gazza i know and have seen first hand the horrors of war and all people from all different countries and all different war zones are, of course, victims and suffering enormously. but there is something unique to the syrian crisis to both the david and goliath kind of element to it. whereby you have a civilian population being bombarded from the skies, relentlessly. where the rebel fighters do not have anything like the same kind of firepower that the russians and the regime and the iranians and hezbollah have when put together. so and to see hospitals targeted, to see fruit markets targeted, to see schools targeted, there is a cynicism to the syrian war that really is particularly haunting to me. rose: and we conclude this evening with author and new yorker columnist calvin trillin. i can t remember when pictures were introduced in the new yorker but a the lo of these store hees were written before there were pho ....
fascist we don t want but we don t want bankers either. some french students who have been protesting the choice of the next presidents. emmanuel macron is fighting marine le pen, a high number of dissent could work in le pen s favor. the candidates have agreed to vote for macron. many are trying to lobby to stay home on the election day. areany of these protesters pleading not to vote. against demonstrating marine le pen and emmanuel macron. this is not what the majority , the candidates do not represent our age group. nor do they represent our ideas. macron andhort-term le pen we are seeing them both to damage. some of them are calling for a boycott of the second round. abstaining as it is a strategy to try to weekend emmanuel macron. for others though they are saying abstaining is dangerous. we should not abstain because if the country votes for marine le pen than she has a chance to win, we have to vote for the least worst. students blockaded and demonstrated. o ....