bernie sanders, john kerry, barack obama, just saying. in burlington, around the liquor store, i woke up to see a spider i had crushed in my sleep. it didn't matter, nothing had been more exciting, it was an election year, bernie was in the office a lot and met with constituents more than any politician i have known since. i answered phones and took down notes from voters, at nights i would call people in all parts of vermont trying to raise money. i wasn't supersuccessful but did a great job reminding people to register to vote and telling them about the bernie events he would be doing around the state. from time to time, he looked the same way he looks now. he would usually read the newspaper even though we always had the windows down, never air-conditioning. sometimes he asked about where i was from and explains what was going on in the world. i tried to impress him about the time my friends and i climbed on newt gingrich askar. bernie was unmoved. 's attitude is what else have you been doing? before i met bernie i thought politics was

bernie sanders, john kerry, barack obama. just saying. [laughter] the internship did not pay when is able to stay with friends in burlington in an apartment on south street behind a liquor store. i slept on a futon in more than once with odysseus better at question my sleep. yes. so gross! but it did not matter. nothing had ever been more exciting. it was an election year so bernie was in the office a lot and he met with constituents more than any politician i've known since. i was kept very busy which i left. i answered phones and took down notes from voters. i faxed press clips, i filed. an identical people in all parts of vermont trying to raise money. i wasn't super successful but i did a great job at reminding people to go register to vote and telling them about the bernie events he would be doing around the state. from time to time i got to drive bernie around. he looks the same way he looks now. super disheveled, his tight little list, he would usually read the newspaper.even though we always had the windows down, never conditionin

john, why do you think john kerry supports aspects of this? >> well, thanks, ari. i don't think it's a surprise that you're seeing support from some democrats including john kerry for an action that goes to counter horrible thing that a dictator did to some civilians in his own country. that's the kind of thing that people on the left get exercised about the way all people get exercised about it. but i think when you're talking about why secretary kerry supports this action, it's for a very particular reason. he sees the use of force ascension to doing the kind of diplomacy that will be required to end the seerd i can't conflict. what we have not yet seen from this administration is the plan for where we go from here and i think the support that you're seeing which you often see in the a military intervention is going to wane over time if this action is not situated in a bigger strategy, a bigger diplomatic play to end the war. >> you are sort of getting at the point that this is a bit of a sugar high and that it can always be positive in the moment to see someone

they took down an article that they had written on john kerry's statement. john kerry was also overselling obama's deal with syria saying they got all of the weapons out of syria, the chemical weapons. let's listen to this. >> we struck a deal where we got 100% of the chemical weapons out. liz: okay. so that essentially was not true. so, chris, what else has top spinned? the iran deal? i mean, what else should we question? >> everything. you question everything over the last eight years. you have to. they have essentially shot any credibility that they have any integrity that people may have thought they have, it's gone. they need to go -- everybody needs to go back and relook at these last eight years and see what the actual truth is and take everything that was said with a grain of salt. when you put people's lives ahead or behind your politics, you are honestly you're less than a person to me, and it's a shame that it's come to this point where lives -- essentially lives are being lost because of politics and john kerry and ambassador susan rice, we can t

john kerry came out immediately supported what donald trump did. >> hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton did. >> you had other people saying

it's not surprising from john kerry. we have to remember that this was a guy that ran for president, then secretary of state had a very different front row view to global conflicts than he did at senator. it is not surprising to see that there are hawks on both sides of the aisle. but what happens most important question, what do we do from here? that is yet to be answered. >> i was looking at the words of jane harman, a former democratic congresswoman from california. she says that we have to depersonalize this. some people do not like a charm, they are upset that he did this. pitiful policy is right, congratulate those who are carrying it out. are you seeing those? >> yes, i think so. not only do i think so, i think that the american people, 57% of them supported the strike. you have to remember something, you know that the presidency is a bully pulpit as well. sending a message not only to the american people, but the rest of the world. what reagan said was that we get our greatest level of peace through military stre

." >> after president obama, president putin, and john kerry went through the agreement for syria to ban the stockpile of chemical weapons, information began to emerge that the syrians were cheating on the agreement. it started filtering out in 2014. the wall street journal had a front-page story on the fact in 2015. in 2016, jim clapper even acknowledged it to a congressional committee. throughout the entire period, however, leading figures of the obama administration, including the president, secretary of state, and susan rice kept insisting that the obama administration, that the deal had gotten 100% of the chemical weapons out, creating an illusion -- which, by the way, the trump administration seemed to share -- that assad had been defanged of its most dangerous weapons. what we have seen in northern syria is that was untrue. and that he maintains the stockpile. i have to ask mr. blinken, how is it that the obama administration kept saying that 100% of the weapons, without qualification, when they knew from their own sources that it was not the case, that assad was cheating on t

john kerry tried it. admirably. worked so hard on it under president obama. never really got it done. i think trump is basically trying that again, although they're not saying it. arlie been -- charlie: but john kerry always bemoaned the fact that the u.s. had no leverage on the ground so therefore gork were very difficult. david: they have more. fire missiles and you have more leverage. charlie: do you think this have a shot that was heard around the world, that the united states intends to lead? nick: this was president obama's points of weakness. the failure to defend the red line in syria. i do think president trump earned a little bit of credibility with nose air strikes -- air strikes last week. but it's going to be hard to perceive because tillerson has been talking about going for a transitional government and some kind of cease-fire. that could take years. he's right to try it but i'm not sure we have the leverage on the ground. the russians are far more powerful than we are in syria. they have the iranians and hezbollah and the syrian government. pr

bernie sanders, john kerry, just saying. the internship did not pay but i was able to stay with a couple of friends in burlington and apartment on south street on a liquor store. i slept on a futon more than once woke up to find a spider? sleep. it's so gross. but it didn't matter, nothing had ever been more exciting. it was an election year so bernie was in the office a lot and he met with constituents more than any politician i had known. i answered phones and took down notes from voters. at night i will call people at all parts of vermont trying to raise money. i was in super successful but i did a great job of reminding people to register to vote and telling them of the bernie event to be doing around the state. from time to time i got to drive bernie around. he looked the same way he looks now. super disheveled, gruff but fair. he would always read the newspaper even though we had the windows down, never air-conditioning. sometimes he asked about my family and explain to me what was going on in the world. i once try to

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john kerry said 100% of the weapons. now, every now and then you would hear second tier administration officials like samantha power raise alarms and use the word "declared" which was a very lawyerly way of acknowledging that they knew that there were these discrepancies. but does anyone watching this show, can anyone say we seriously remember that a major theme of the obama administration's second term was pointing to the discrepancy between what was declared and what was -- what we knew about? now, mr. blinken might be right, that there's an argument to be had that getting out those 1300 tons of sarin, vx and other gas and other poisons was worth the price. but i'm -- and i say this explicitly in the article, there's one argument to be had about the wisdom. i think it was a very unwise deal which sent a signal that american red lines were useless and that also prevented us from carrying out retaliatory strikes once we knew that assad was violating the deal. what i'm questioning here is the honesty. the simple fact is t

. >> when it came to then candidate john kerry, chip, flip-flop was used a lot in reference to john kerry and used by a lot of republicans in reference to john kerry. going forward do you think republicans can use this against any democratic candidate moving forward, considering what we have experienced with now president donald trump? >> well, i'll go ahead and admit i used it against john kerry during that presidential, too. >> glad you admit it. >> i admit it freely but i would say trump, it may seem the press treats trump like a normal politician, because he's not. >> well he's the president, after all, bill. how are we supposed to be treating him. >> he sees everything as a negotiation. when he goes in to china and says i'm going to instruct my treasury secretary to call them currently manipulators, when the chinese delegation gets to town, they already know that their back's up against the wall and they're willing to negotiate from day one. i think what trump got out of this trip from the chinese is, maybe we're not going to call you currently manipulators any more but you are going

and john kerry himself did not know a lot of the story. have every reason to think spending time researching the thing he had suspicions but knew nothing about this side of the family.including the fact that his grandfather had committed suicide in a bathroom at the plaza hotel. so there is a lot in there that tells us this is a little bit more complex. what is a family history, what does it tell us about him and his own curiosity about his family background? in the case of mitt romney, when i approached his and told him we want to do the same thing for him and to write about them, a spokesperson says why would you want to write a book about mitt romney? is already written two books about himself. [laughter] and in death of one of the books there's a 59 point plan about what he wanted to do for the country. but the books say almost nothing about them it probably really is. what actually happened in his career for example, the short story was he was doing wonderful at a company and -- hate had a very complex history of what happened with ea

john kerry tried it, admirably. he worked so hard on it under president obama. never really got it done. i think trump is basically trying that again although they're not saying it. >> but john kerry always beknowned and did soings with 51 dip plo mats at the state department that the u.s. had no leverage on the ground so therefore negotiation was very difficult. >> they've got more. he's fired 59 cruise missiles and you have a little more leverage. >> do you think that is true with respect to the north koreans? do you think this was at the united states intendsd, to leave? >> i was just going to say to build on david's choint, carlie, this was president obama's point of weakness, where most people thought he lost american credibility, the failure to defend the red line in syria. i do think president trump ump earned a little bit of credibility last week with those air strikes. but it's going to be hard to proceed now because rex tillerson has been talking about a big negotiation to try to put, bring the parties in syria together and go for a transitional govern

. >> i have been here before with hillary clinton and with john kerry. we have seen other secretaries of state dealing with the russian situation. but this really is a new level of tension. >> if you walk us through, i know you been on this trip in the past with past secretaries of state, what are you seeing that is so striking about what some are describing is the toughest land cape for a u.s. leader on a trip of this sort. >> the biggest change, of course, is that the secretary of state is not a diplomat. it is in such dramatic contrast compared to those who are getting a medal from vladimir putin. always we're told that he will raise the russian hacking. tillerson is completely in sync with what they said about that. so peter, while you stand by, i will bring in michael mcfall who is an msnbc contributor and the former u.s. ambassador to russia. you know this space to well. putin has a news conference with the italian leader just as tillerson is arriving at almost the same time. as tillerson was arriving weakened because he and boris johnson, the brit

john kerry,k, anne-marie slaughter, senior figures in the obama administration, have both come out and praised the strike. why do you think they are praising it if they weren't in fact dissidents within the obama administration of the policy that you guys ultimately pursued? there was a lot of unhappiness inside the obama administration for the failure to act in 2013 and for the absolutely hands-off bugaboo, as on the you put it, we put one toe in, and the whole body is in the water. charlie: and also the idea of leverage, because kerry was not successful in the negotiation with the russians. but my understanding is you said you supported the strike, but now is the time for diplomacy? tony: yes. i came out immediately, at a lesser level than john kerry or others, in support of what the trump administration did. it was the right thing to do. question is whether there's followthrough, whether there's a way to use this to make progress. question. you have to look at everything in the context of its time at the moment. going back to 2013, the decision before us was whether to strike, not h

a fascinating footnote to that is susan rice was on point alongside john kerry. >> we were able to find aon solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known in syria in the way that use of force would never accomplish. >> with respect to syria, we struck a deal where he got 100% of the chemical weapons out. >> bill: obviously a false belief on mr. kerry's part. for years, assad has been protected by the russians who were warned of the attack was coming that night so they could get their personal out of the airfield. >> russia should be embarrassed and ashamed. they are the one telling people that there were no agents, no chemical weapons left. we know for the better part of the year, assad has been using chlorine bombs against population centers. a couple of days ago, the nerve agent sarin. they have been covering for assad, if it were not for the russians, assad would not be in power. >> bill: that's true. putin continues to prop assad up, and 5 million are refugees. most sane people support the missile attack lastre night. sane is the key word here. >> it doesn't ma

lavrov and also with his counterpart iran. >> john kerry had a 40 year relationship. second tillerson, new to the job just about three months. as an american i believe that we keep our policy at water's edge and when the secretaries are over there meeting with putin and its counterparts, i think it's important that foreign policy has a clear, consistent, and easily coherent following and that's the hallmark of many great foreign policy. i was encouraged to see the dialogue happening that he did get the meeting with putin, which was typical for secretary of state from our country for the last 70 years. at least the dialogue is happening to deal with all the massive issues that were dealing with. >> martha: there was some question as to whether or not putin what it, they said we don't have it on her calendar but since you're here. push went to shop and they did end up sitting down together. let's play this exchange that we have between second tillerson and lavrov and i want to get your thoughts on this. >> the final outcome in our view does not provide for our role for

every time john kerry looked like he took a pie in the face from the russians, that would be followed with some press conference where there would be black slapping and yucking it up. tillerson doesn't play like that even though in 2012 he was awarded the friendship award -- rex tillerson is a savvy negotiator. he knows how to deal with the russians because he has done. not easy to do business with that government. he's prepared to walk away from the table if he feels like he's getting a bum deal. so whether or not this kind of manic depressive approach the white house is pro-russia and tomorrow it's anti-russia, what are we going to do? they didn't expect donald trump of all presidents to launch air strikes against assad even however symbolic or negligible they may have been in the long-term. this provides the white house some opportunity to put putin on notice and say we wanted to work with you. we came into office perhaps, you know, with your assistance and promising but now there's a new sheriff in town. we're not going to roll over like the last administration did. >> as it perta

even john kerry said it's christian genocide. zuhdi: john kerry saidr said it after the united nations resolution -- the congress passed a resolution saying it was a genocide it's not christians versus the world. it's islamists versus the rest of the world. anyone who is not muslim or aggrieves with their theocracy, and until we call it what it is, the world and americans who listen to the media will get more educated and determine which muslims are with us and which muslims are against us. they are denying it because they don't want to get to step one in the solution. liz: the media is going ter donald trump saying they should not be doing extreme vetting. the president is saying do extreme vetting of ideology. >> anyone who has the privilege to come to the united states should share our values. any theocracy be it the muslim brotherhood. i don't want them come to our country. same thing for russian and chinese tyrants it's not extreme vetting, it's rational vetting. the radicals are creating a genocide for christians. liz: a mu

i was reminded of it when i came harder and john kerry and dick lugar, a republican and democrat, were working on the new start together. we considered that trea treaty e on the floor of the senate. but it became much more difficult now thank this then to have this -- now than then to have this kind of bipartisan work. at any rate, please do take a walk, if you are here in d.c. on the one hand an the grounds of the capitol, and take a look at that peace tree. that peace tree is just on the verge of becoming the tallest tree on the grounds, planted in 1985 so it's now 32 years old. and let's hope that as it becomes the tallest tree, it will have kind of a biblical influence and bring more peace to a world in desperate need of it. but we need more of that peace tree influence here in this chamber. that influence is sorely lacking the type of cooperation between democrats and republicans that existed doesn't exist today, and we are here at this very moment on a tragic course to

john kerry and sergey lavrov did have a good relationship. rex tillerson does have a good relationship with president putin. he has known him for the last 16 on the one hand, we could say that the relationship between john kerry and sergey lavrov is missing but rex tillerson does underand russia. he knows russia quite well. what we have heard so far from both sides, stating their positions, it is no surprise. we are looking out for compromises. for some way they can work together on a pragmatic basis. david: you mentioned the relationship between vladimir putin and rex putin -- rex tillerson. he wasn't expected to meet with putin, even before the chemical attack. when the trip was first announced, there was no mention of a meeting between president putin and the secretary of state so nothing has changed. although, given their close relationship, previously we might have expected there would be some informal meeting. and we are not aware of that at this time. there is a lot that we are watching in this meeting. we will pay attention to what is

he is not john kerry. john kerry was eeyore. he's the iron giant. you will never see rex tillerson bring james taylor anywhere. he might bring say layer but not james taylor. what trump has done is replaced ideology with negotiation. it's so predictable that it's getting repetitious, kind of been a good way. it trump begins by going extreme. that unsettled people. everyone takes notice. if there's of chaos. north korea and then it moves towards dialogue and compromise. he is like a parent who throws his child into the pool. it's very cold. the kid is screaming and then the kid doesn't want to get out of the pool for the rest of the day. that is what he does. he starts out extreme and then he moves into a comfortable area where everybody goes, okay, he is not evil. to be he is not incompetent and maybe he can't be reasoned with. i think he's taking the wind out of a lot of the anti-trump sales. >> what you think, juan? >> i was wowed by gregory. that was a wow because to my eyes, what we are seeing -- this is a guy, oh, my gosh, these 100 days are co

the framework was very much supported by the data diplomatic push of secretary john kerry. i am very grateful for his efforts. i'm very pleased to see. [inaudible] they are extremely active on supporting these views. i believe the framework provides a valuable basis for ending the war. we have to move quickly. seven months have passed since the end of the plate talks. people are rapidly losing faith in the sentiment. we need the possibility of nonmilitary solutions. there is declining violence in many parts of the country. this experience that the agreement would have benefit to the population is possible. it was an important factor in creating space for compromise. also listening to the terms of conditions the possibilities are necessary to stop the red. it is also needed to revive the space in which compromise can take place. since the end of equate talks, military violence and fighting is ongoing in the north. it causes displacement. was the missiles from yemen continue to be launched, airstrikes are targets that killed over 140 people and injured over 500 people. the lo

was john kerry. he criticized russia on human rights and went after russia time and time again. this is rex tillerson that got the award of friendship when they were doing billions of dollars to deals. this is very different up until recently. with donald trump sayinghat i want improve retions, and with trump until recently not breathing a word of criticism against putin, for him to do this was an obvious signal they are not happy about the air strike and they're not going to have a better relationship no matter what donald trump said in the campaign. the other thing over shadowing this is the russian hacking. tillerson has embraced the intelligence communities findings. >> we know you will be front and center for that press con friend i want to turn to bill neily. what are you hearing from russia when vladimir putin is asking for proof of the chemical attack. he is comparing it to the false claims of wmd. they said we have no doubt the syrian government is behind this. why is russia taking this tact

this is the same thing john kerry had told me. the u.s. administration. they're a more serious threat and a more important objective than the acid regime. so i think we think along the same lines. we have to see the common threads. they are apparent. and if we are to fight isis, if we are to emerge victorious from this fight without ousting the regi regime. when ousting the regime, this is no guarantee we will defeat isis. on the contrary, isis might remain victorious if we oust the regime. colleagues, this is the end of the press kompconference. thank you for participating. thank you. >> and you have been watching the end of a remarkable press conference after a remarkable day. marathon meetings between u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on your left shaking hands with sergei lavrov, the veteran foreign minister for russia. he's been the dean of the top diplomats, and the two of them having a meeting with vladimir putin, the president of russia. very interesting mixed messages coming -- maybe not mixed, they were entirely separate messages coming but

because i was there with john kerry when he went up to testify. we asked congress for permission to take those strikes. and congress said no. hundreds of members of congress wrote us a letter saying come to us, we deserve a role in in a y of whether we take strikes. i haven't heard any of those members in congress over the past 24 hours say the same thing. >> martha: the congress has 48 hours to go to congress for permission. there is a situation where you can act for us and as for permission later. president obama decided to not do that. that was his choice. >> because we think and we believe in a democracy that it's important that congress has a role and a say in when and how we go to war. and that was very important to us. i was very disappointed that united states congress said no at the time. so what we did instead was negotiate the agreement that you talked about a lot where we got 1300 tons of chemical weapons out, not all, as we've seen in the past week, or in the past days, but those 1300 tons were a good thing to get out. but to go back

in today's washington post, former secretary of state john kerry wrote an op-ed on this earth day, saying why he remains optimistic, even despite policies that he says might undermine effort to address environmental concerns. , america's his piece businesses and state and local governments know well what the future holds and are planning accordingly. that is why i am confident the united states will not only meet , but also exceed, the bold emissions reductions targets president barack obama set, even if the new administration takes the misguided step of revoking them. he goes on later to say, "i spent election day 2016 headed to antarctica, where i talked with researchers who did not mince words." gavinntist named dunbar described what they are seeing as an unmistakable canary in the coal mine. he warned that some thresholds, if we cross them, can't be reversed. the trump administration may decide to bet against scientists . we have to move forward with or without washington. matt is on the phone from maysville, north carolina, good morning. caller: good morning. i want to make a comment

rex tillerson earning his middles or john kerry marrying into it? remember who he married. his wife was i think the heir to the heinz fortune. this guy earned it. >> neil: thanks very much. speaking of wealth, we erased the losses. jack welch told me last week that a lot of this has to do with optimism we're going to get tax cuts. does the guy that used to be a big player at g.e. and home depot agree? he's next. >> neil: all right. you never know. we were down 145 points at one point today. a not so efficient start to the new month. we turned that to a 13-point loss. the founder of xlr 8, bob nardelli joining us right now. good to see you. >> good to see you, neil. >> neil: when jack welch was here, he said there's an 80% chance of getting the tax relief through. the markets will love it. i differed with that saying if it's just corporate taxes, i don't know if the markets will like that. what do you think about that? >> i spent a lot of times with jack. i share a different point of view. it's critically important that sometime in the middle of this year, we get a corporate

this is the same thing john kerry had told me. the u.s. administration, he said, was convinced that isis was a more serious threat and a more important objective than the assad regime. so i think we think along the same lines. we have to see the common thread if they are apparent. and if we are to fight isis, if we are to emerge victorious from this fight without ousting the regime. when ousting the regime, this is no guarantee that we are going to defeat isis. on the contrary, they might emerge victorious if we oust the regime. so we should be guided by commonsense, thank you, not by emotion. >> colleagues, this is the end of the conference. thank you for participating. thank you. >> dana: rex tillerson and sergi lavrov wrapping up a press conference after tillerson meets with president putin for about two hours. i'm melissa francis. tillerson told putin that he thinks u.s./russian relations are at a low point. they also talked about the russian's interference with the u.s. elections and whether syrian president bashar al-assad should go.

leverage that john kerry didn't always have and hopefully he's going to use that or did use that in this meeting and hopefully will be able to use it with president putin. look, we rattled the cage a little bit. they are angry about there and they are concerned about where this is going. uncertainty on a tactical level can be helpful, but uncertainty on a strategic level with respect to policy cannot be. so to answer your question he does have a little bit of leverage here given the strikes and given the way that's rattled the russians, but i also think that it would be more helpful in these meetings if he could point to a very cohesive, well-articulated, well-crafted united states policy with respect to the future of syria, and i just don't think we're there yet. i think it is still evolving for this administration. >> professor, admiral, nice to have you both. thank you. >>> still to come for us, the cnn exclusive report this morning, congressional sources both republicans and democrats saying they really can't find anything to back up the claims by the trump administration that their

senators john kerry and ron wyden. among others. that's why we heard in 1999 that it is not good for america to "just pick up this whole morass of telephone regulation and dump it whole say on internet pipe." which right wing zealot said that? president clinton's fcc chairman, bill canard. and in more recent years, we were told that the title 2 order itself was an economics free zone and the agency. >> you can watch the rest of this event at c-span.org. we leave it now to take you now to a briefing with senate minority leader chuck shumer. >> reporters and where the little kid reporters. there's one. anyone else? there's one. you see, it's not your fault, kids. your parents refuse to cooperate here in the nice little exercise we had. okay. anyway, thank you, big and small, for coming. grown-up and growing up for coming. so we all know a lot's happened in the last few days. so i wanted to take a couple of minutes to discuss where senate democrats are on taxes, health care, government funding, and then take some questions. first on ta

syria, you heard john kerry speak out in support of what president trump did. >> meghan: i was surprised to hear that, because i would debate that john kerry was 100% complicit in the atrocities that happened in syria. president trump, 100% accurate. he wouldn't be in the position globally that we are right now if president obama hadn't spent eight years leading from behind, and gone on international apology tours for the united states of america. i hope president trump has learned lessons from the last eight years. i believe what's happened in syria is when the president leads from behind. i think we have a role as the greatest country in the world to help out these people. i do in the simplest way possible. geraldo thinks that's not the best idea. >> harris: ho you wehow would yh ground troops to help these people? that's scary. >> meghan: of course it's scary. this country is incredibly war weary. but i would debate president obama wouldn't let us win. when he pulled us out of iraq, we know now isis metastasized out of it. if we had led the generals and leaders do their job -- i don't

kerry. with hey written stories for years and years. read those and then start over and leave nothing on the table. which sounds daunting but was a great assignment because, number one, it meant i had a lot of time to work into shim and long story short, john kerry, i have been trust evidence to writing biographs of presidential candidate. we hat wherein that hays ancestry was irish and he was irish catholic. none of that was true. the family was jewish, the family name was koehn and never lived in ireland and whatnotted to change their him in to something that didn't sound so viewish, they dropped a pencil on the map, ended one county kerry in ireland and said, okay, kerry is the family name. and kerry himself did not know this story, and i have ever reason to think, having spent a lot of time researching this, he had some suspicions that one side of the family but knew nothing about this side of the family. including the fact that his grandfather committed suicide in the bathroom the plaza

president obama, john kerry, susan rice also the same thing, assad had gotten rid of all his chemical weapons, but guess what? they were all dead wrong. unlike his present assessor, president trump acted swiftly, decisively to stop the syrian regime from using chemical weapons ever again. by the way, here's our final thoughts. the obama admin assertion, remember the horrible deal they made with iran? they claimed it would prevent the mullahs in iran from developing a nuclear weapon. what if they were wrong about that like they were wrong about syria and asada getting rid of their chemical weapons? joining us now reaction, our friend monica crowley former spokesman rick grenell. let's just ponder that question for a second, what if they told the world that they drew a redline and they didn't act because assad got rid of his chemical weapons? we saw on tuesday we didn't they didn't get rid of their chemical weapons. what if the deal they made with iran, let's say they are wrong there too which would not surprise me. >> it's very troublesome, we have to see the full iran a deal right now

the truth is that many generals and military people out there no that former secretary john kerry did advocate doing something, limited to military action in syria. president obama time and time again rejected it. he did not want to do any military strike in syria. president trump saw those pictures, saw what was really happening on the ground and moved. that's why he had broad support all around the world for those moves. i will say this, those sound bites that you ran when he said this is an evil man and russia is backing an evil person. that was in response to my question to the president. asking him if, in fact, our relationship, the u.s. relationship with russia has been damaged by this move. he said i don't know. but i will say this, this is an evil man and russia is backing an evil person. i would say to you as rex tiller's and meets with mr. lab rough in russia, he has more leverage, he goes into that meeting with more leverage because the world agrees with president trump. in terms of what he just did, he made it very clear he does not want to get in some long-term entangleme

kerry said they moved to implement democracy. the obama administration continued military and intelligence a to the sisi government, but cut some of it back in protest of these massacres and they made some human rights criticisms of the government will stop trump comes in and does -- changes the approach. he invokes the criticisms and fully restores and says he intends to increase the military sisi to theomes white house, embraces him, says they agree, and he does this, by the way, three days before he criticizes assad, who for years worked with the cia. -- aba would send of duct ductees to assad for torture. trump criticizes assad, then bombs. it.p welcomes it is the same approach to israel. one reason why israel and the netanyahu administration is so delighted with trump. obama pushed through a massive, the largest ever weapons aid and training package for the israeli military, as the israeli military was in the midst of tightening the repression in the west bank after they had -- not too long before they had done a massive sla

kerry had to admit that some of that money went to funding terrorists. >> absolutely. >> we know from admissions from the trump administration that they have been complying with the deal which is what we wanted and a large portion of that money that they got from us is money that we unfroze. i think it makes sense for the trump administration to review the agreement and hold their feet to the fire, but the economic sanctions we've placed are critical going forward to make sure they don't become the nuclear threat that steve mentioned. david: the worst of all worlds, e-mack, is the possibility of nuclear andterrorism coming together. they deal with hezbollah, in fact, many people say they created hezbollah. nikki haley, ambassador to the u.n., let's play the tape and get your reaction. >> if we're speaking honestly, we need to start with the chief culprit, iran and the partner mission, hezbollah. >> e-mack, nuclear terrorism is the biggest threat of all. >> nikki haley is impressive and spot on. recently iran has been writing on the missiles, death to israel, according to recent report

every single day with john kerry was walking back a position every single -- >> john kerry is upset they didn't do anything. that you have. he's the one that fought. he is the one that will end up criticizing in his memorandum wars for walking away on this. am i wrong? on that. >> those two words go together. >> yes, on that i think that's where they had disagreement. >> it is complicated and the question for, you know, going back to last week as you talked about in the last segment with senator mccain, the statement tillerson made about assad, what the white house said earlier this week that it's just not realistic to try to push him out right now. things may havchanged that but how do you get there? i mean execute, you know, decide to do missile strikes is one thing. beyond that is where it gets even stickier. >> oh, by the way, the president has to be dealing with north korea right now. and he's got leverage with the chinese and we're out of time. i will leave it there. jan, eli, brian, thank you. after the break a final honor for an american hero. stay tuned. when this bell rings...

and john kerry and spicer have already said that it is possible to get rid of 50i67isil and kers said that it's much more important to deal with isil than assad's regime. so i think we think in very like manner here. the common threat is absolutely obvious. if it is possible to overcome isil without reversing the regime, then having reversed or turned the regime, it may well be that we will lose the fight against isil. so i think that what we need to do is to use commonsense and fewer emotions. on that, we complete this press conference. thank you very much. >>> the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and secretary tillerson wrapping up their joint statements and news conference underscoring the very, very serious differences between those two countries. tillerson saying the u.s./russian relationship is at a low point, his words, at a low point. he adds there is a low level of trust between our two countries. he says this kind of situation should not continue given the fact these are the two major nuclear powers in the world. the u.s. cannot have this kind of relationship. lots to

tony, you were a deputy secretary of state during the john kerry's term as secretary of state. obviously bashar al assad is the one responsible for the actions committed by bashar al assad, but there has been criticism leveled at the obama administration. one tweet from 2014 from the state department from john kerry noted in 2014, today the last 8% of declared chemical weapons were removed from syria. great work done by all involved. apparently assad was hiding some chemical weapons still. >> two things. the vast bulk of the chemical weapons munitions were moved and destroyed. the vast bulk of the infrastructure that syria had was destroyed and as a result syria no longer represented a strategic threat to countries in the region with keepson and god forbid if that stuff was there today, as horrific as what we've seen to date, how much worse it could be? there were residual chemical weapons left that we were trying to account for. mostly what's happened in the intervening years is they have used chlorine as a weapon which is not -- >> not on the list. >> it's not on the list alt