Casualties. There has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u. S. Air campaign against the socalled islamic state. And under trump, a massive increase in u. S. Drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u. S. Foreign relations. Today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u. S. Led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u. S. Killed in a Coalition Air strike in syria. The pentagon blamed partner forces. That news comes on the heels of last weeks air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. And we are just 84 days into the Trump Administration. Im joined by Steve Schmidt larry corb. Larry, im going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. He claimed during the came papa
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threat. mr. xi then explained the history of china and korea. mr. trump said after listening for ten minutes, i realized it s not so easy, mr. trump recounted. i felt pretty strongly they had tremendous power over north korea, he said, but it s not what you would think. that was just one of the trump evolutions or full flip-flops that we learned about in the past 24 hours. for instance, after months and months of railing against china and its currency manipulation, the president in that same wall street journal interview said that his administration won t label china a currency manipulator in a report due this week. and after a presidential campaign in which he said nato, obsolete, the president at a joint news conference with the nato secretary general said, quote, it is no longer obsolete. but while some of those 180s toward a rational conclusion may be heartening to some, a leader who flips and flops in just ten minutes might just as easily flop back, and his decisions may be at t