Plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2. 0. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. And from selling your Internet Browser history what the heck are you thinking . To rolling back protections for women. How trumps america is taking shape faster than you know. Would you like to make a change, folks . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Amid a steady drip of news about trump worlds connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. The scandal is not what we know, its how we know it. In a throw back to the benghazi days, theyve got a familiar scapegoat. Former National Security adviser
susan rice. I believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. She needs to be brought in and questioned under oath.
very long shot. when i see neutral countries like sweden now taking the united states position and they, the swedish ambassador to the united nations actually hosted a closed-door meeting friday night to try to deal with this. so i think we re beginning to win the war, if you will, of public opinion. keep the pressure on the old kgb agent. arthel: meanwhile, what does this mean for the state of syria and isis and other satellite terror groups born in syria? well, it s a mess. and i ve said this president inherited the most complex foreign policy and national security situation commander in chief has ever faced. but and he also inherited an army that had been gutted, our duh fence forces have been drastically defense forces have been drastically cut. the president has to we can t be everywhere, but we have to prioritize those national security threats, the most immediate ones to this country. i ve got north korea at the top of the list. but strategically, i think the president h
would suggest. i ve read many of the reports, and they seem to imply that assad s air force distributed the serren or whatever over a vast tapestry. it s very difficult for me to put myself in assad s position and say, i m winning. why am a going to pert bait the situation now the wade a use of chemical weapons would. do you think there is any path forward in syria that could lead to an end to the just unspeakable brutality and horrific bloodshed there? i certainly do, and i think it s the one that we were about, i think, to pursue. and that was to recognize assad, at least temporarily, as the leader of the legitimate state of syria and to negotiate some sort of political transition, however long that might take, with the other people involved. my concern, chris, about iraq and mosul in particular and syria in general is after that sort of stability is achieved, what does turkey do?
at least temporarily, as the leader of the legitimate state of syria and to negotiate some sort of political transition, however long that might take, with the other people involved. my concern, chris, about iraq and mosul in particular and syria in general is after that sort of stability is achieved, what does turkey do? what does iran do? what does hezbollah do? what does assad do then? what does iraq do? what does iraq under the influence of iran do? i think the post-conflict situation, if we ever achieve it in syria, may be more seous even than the conflict it s looking very far off tonight. thanks for being with me. appreciate it. thanks for having me. still to come, despite the trump administration s series of big legislative failures, they have already enacted tangible change. plus the president gets booed. that s tonight s thing 1/thing 2, starting right after this break.
coalition, there are internal divisions and rivalries. you have the pkk, which is a turkish u.s. eu designated turkish organization. then you have the kurdish peshmerga. they are already competing with we did this, we did this. they re trying to steal each other s thunder in terms of military strikes. can they govern or hold sinjar together without sort of devolving into sort of a civil war unto themselves? this is the issue. there are unintended consequences of the war, too. we re all about holding the nation states together. the problem is, our strategy going forward or whatever you want to call it, is leading to the balkanization of syria and iraq. the kurds are carving out their own statelet, called rojava. the integral state of syria, this exists only in name at this