uh, preston obama who once famously called isis junior varsity, he found himself needing this varsity level response to this. apparently not. so j, the threat. so us troops found themselves in syria back then in his era, isis has since been defeated and in large part due to russian airstrikes. but the russians, the difference here is the russians were invited there by president bashar al assad, unlike the west. now, congress did not vote to go to war with syria. wire. us troops still being placed in harm's way. and as many would describe it as a legally occupying syrian lan. i mean, is there some sort of legal or diplomatic loophole that we all missed? you know, of course not. i mean let's, let's, let's go over this notion that there's anything like a us constitutional or us rule of law that governs any of these things that we, that we've law long since left that behind. but i think there's a couple of weeks you may not need to understand here. first of all, isis is just a pretext to that. for the better part of the 3rd of a century. there's been this obsession in a us policy makers w

preston obama, who once famously called isis junior varsity, he found himself needing this bars to be level response to this. apparently not. so j, the threat. so us troops found themselves in syria back then in his era, isis has since been defeated and in large part due to russian airstrikes. but the russians, the difference here is the russians were invited there by president bashar al assad, unlike the west. now, congress did not vote to go to war with syria. wire. us troops still being placed in harm's way. and as many would describe it as illegally occupying syrian lan. i mean, is there some sort of legal or diplomatic loophole that we all missed? you know, of course not. i mean let's, let's, let's go over this notion that there's anything like a us constitution or us rule of law that governs any of these things that we, that we've logged long since. well, therapy. hi. but i think there's a couple of things you may not need to understand here. first of all, isis is just a pretext to that. for the better part of the 3rd of a century, there's been this obsession in a us policy make

mark preston, appreciate the perspective and thanks so much. row. >> and now to some new cnn reporting as trump is juggling his campaign in court appearances. we're learning the former president's legal team is trying to game out his federal trials and actually pit the judges against each other in an effort to avoid a federal trial before election day. we've seen an senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz, joining us now now are just explain to us what he's trying to do here. yeah. so this strategy depends on what happens in his two federal cases. so there's the case in dc for judge tanya chutkin related to the 2020 election. that's on hold, but could get back into the hands of the trial court quite quickly. and then they would need to put it on the calendar for trial. he doesn't want to go to trial in that case. before the election. so the way to prevent that, according to the sources, i'm talking to, is to use his other federal criminal case in florida, the mar-a-lago documents case, and take it and it's very complex. try and use t