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What was bombed? we bombed an airport, and 24 hours later, that airport was back bombing the same area that was victim to the chemical weapons. so i don t understand the point. i understand sending a message. but what does that mean a day later? to me, i think it has the potential to embolden everybody, to embolden the syrians, to g d embolden the north koreans. what is the policy, what is the approach of this president? we have a letter to congress in which now the president spoke about this and you have secretary of state rex tillerson saying that the nation s administration s main priority is the defeat of isis. let s hear his point. sure. once the isis threat has been reduced or eliminated, i think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in syria. we re hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of a ....
Administration s efforts on health care reform. i m curious what the state of the affordable care act in your state, washington. are premiums going up, are providers dropped out? we have had tremendous success. we have 750,000 people now insured. we have cut the inflation rate from 16 to 6%. it has been very successful in reducing the rate of increased costs for our citizens. we ve cut the uncompensated care by more than half and the uninsured rate by more than half. we have 50,000 new jobs we ve created in the health care industry. we ve had unalloyed success in the state of washington. we re satisfied that the administration and congress have been unsuccessful in dismantling health care. they ve failed in that effort. there are some things perhaps we can do to have a more successful stability in the insurance ....
Rates. we ought to be open to ideas. but i m glad we have stopped them in their tracks in the effort to repeal health care. it has been a success in my state. and i hope to continue that going forward. all right. governor jay inslee of washington, sir, thank you so much for your time. you bet, thank you. coming up, some lawmakers on capitol hill are unhappy about president trump not seeking approval to bomb syria. one of the most powerful congress men says congress is to blame for that. and next hour, the alliance between russia and iran. could their ugh talk about the u.s. bombing on syria lead to military action? i ll ask a retired navy admiral. ....
Humanitarian crisis since the u.n. was formed in 1945, and that expand across three south african questions and yemen. 20 million people potentially at risk of starvation. you can t just take foreign policy a piece at a time. what is his overall strategy? what is his approach? what is going to come next? why did he wait until all of us were leaving dc, at least in the house, to do the bombing? why didn t he bring us in? we need an aumf, authorized use of military force. congress needs to debate this issue. what about your colleague, ranking intel member adam schiff, that there s more of a case to have been made for action in syria than there was in 2013 with president obama. do you agree with that? i have a hard time with that. ....
Rex tillerson standing by comments last week about the fate of president assad and u.s. priorities in syria. we re hopeful that through this syrian process, working with coalition members, working with the u.n., in particular working through the geneva process, that we can navigate a political outcome in which the syrian people in fact will determine bashar al assad s fate and his legitimacy. i think the question of how his criminal actions are dealt with is something that will be part of that process. once the isis threat has been reduced or eliminated, i think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in syria. congress also weighing in today. senator lindsey graham coming to president trump s defense with this warning to syria and other world enemies. if you kill babies with conventional bombs, it s still a moral outrage. here s what i think assad is telling trump by flying from ....