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agenda and more turmoil in the trump white house. >> i disagree with my father. he knows it. i express myself with total candor. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics". i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world thanks for sharing your sunday. staff turmoil and a new show of u.s. military muscle in asia aimed at getting north korea's attention. being commander-in-chief is changing a man who for years said it was foolish to inject american power into syria's civil war. >> tonight i call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end this slaughter, and bloodshed in syria. and also to end terrorism of all

kinds and all types. >> now these are the images that changed the president's mind. victim of a sirin gas attack the pentagon says was launched by bashar al assad. these here, let's take a look. these are the images of the message sent by the president in the form of 60 cruise missiles, 59 of them aimed at the airbase. red dots show you some of the damage. let me bring you up and show you, aircraft hangars. see these photos released by the pentagon show some of the destruction. that's one example. again, come over here you see much of the same, burnt out areas here, hardened shell u-see the poke marks where the missiles went in. the president of the united states trying to send a message to bashar al assad, to syria and moscow. was this a one time retaliation or is the united states on a new war footing? >> he won't stop here. if he needs to do more he'll do more. now what happens depends on how

everyone responds to what happened in syria and make sure we start moving towards a political solution and we start finding peace in that area. >> with us this sunday to share the reporting and their insight, julie pace, phil mattingly, and the atlantic's molly ball. first major military assault of the trump presidency was drawn up for president obama but kept on the shelf until thursday. >> tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. it is in this vital national security interest of the united states to prevent the spread of use of deadly chemical weapons. >> rush dispatched a cruise ship of its own to show its

displeasure. russian television showing the targeted airbase was back in business. what's next? the trump administration is sending mixed signals. you heard in the beginning of the program, nikki haley saying if he has to do more he'll do more. secretary of state, rex tillerson seems to be saying let's just see what happens on the ground, our big fundamental policy hasn't changed, this is more about isis than it is about bashar al assad. which is it? >> they are sending mixed messages. i was with the president and white house staff in palm beach the last few days. on one hand you hear officials say that trump is willing to do more to go after assad. at the same time they say there's no broader shift in u.s. policy. i think what we can take away from this is the strike was meant to send a message that trump is a president who is willing to use military action when he feels necessary but that they have not really thought through what this means more broadly. i think that leaves them in a dangerous situation because the assad regime doesn't have much to lose here and russia and iran

have shown a great capacity for trying to prop assad up over the last several years. >> a red line certainly drawn by this president about the use of chemical weapons. president obama drew that dlient enforce it. this president has. do we know what happens if bashar al assad uses conventional weapons and bombs a town again and we see pictures, horror not chemical reactions, still death, still children, still babies, is that okay because it's not gas? >> he said there are lines of many colors. many different lines that were crossed. but as swruly was saying, the administration officials are almost explicitly saying they don't have an end game or a broader strategy. this isn't part of something that's been thought all the way through. it is a one time thing that might turn into a many times thing. and if it doesn't change u.s. policy it is a direct contravention of what trump consistently, what his stance was throughout the campaign on this issue. so the reason the previous

administration took the public relations hit of obama looking weak and being broadly criticized for not being forceful enough on syria they decided that was still preferable to potentially being drawn into a quagmire. potentially being drawn into a broader war that would require troop commitment that we couldn't get out of and make the situation worse. this administration doesn't have answers to those questions of how you avoid those outcomes. >> whether it's a one off or not you're throwing a punch at bashar al assad, the first time the united states has directly attacked the regime. you have special operations forces and others inside syria helping to fight isis. two enemies now, two combatants twin borders of syria. this is a complicated one. without a clear policy where are we going. >> nikki haley today said something along the lines of assad can't be part of the solution. closer to the he must go language obama used but we don't

have that from tillerson. it's not clear what the policy is towards assad. what are we doing there? we don't know. we took one step here on thursday. not sure what the next two steps are. >> here's nikki haley, you want to stay with cnn. she's on "state of the union" with jake tapper in the next hour. you just launched this military strike. this president's goal that bashar al assad's policy, bashar al assad must go? >> well, the regime change is something we think is going to happen because all of the parties are going to see that assad shot this the leader that needs be taking place for syria. >> that's the united nations ambassador, works for donald trump. here's the secretary of state, who has the same boss. >> there's no real change in the united states military stance towards syria from what it was last week. >> that's correct, george. this strike, i think the president was very clear in his message to the american people that this strike was related solely to the most recent

horrific use of chemical weapons against women, children and as the president said even small babies. we are asking russia to fulfill its commitment and we're asking and calling on bashar al assad to cease the use of these weapons. other than that there's no change in our military pose tour. >> is confusion a strategy or is confusion because there's a lack -- the last administration went through this. there's no good options. >> everybody is on the same page. what julie and molly all laid out is the reality. they don't know what's coming next. they haven't had the in depth policy discussions/planning. there's been so much going on in the first 75 days i don't have a sense those meetings happened at the top line level. that raises a lot of questions. i was on capitol hill when the general came in and briefed senators in a closed door secured briefing. all came out and said the

briefing was fantastic. the lead up to this decision-making was very good as traditional as you could expect and we're impressed. nobody had any answers to what comes next. it's what you heard repeatedly. the reviews were good. everybody was pleased that the trump administration was willing to take this step. nobody knows what happens next. what happens next is not just on the military side of things, it's on the diplomatic side of things. there's not answers there yet. >> i've covered the political space around the syria war since 2013 when obama backed away and you almost felt there was this cathartic moment for a lot of people in both parties that felt frustrated the u.s. didn't do more. the mere fact trump was willing to take this action in the short term made people feel good. quickly you see that start to fadeaway because this is not only the same complicated situation with assad, this is that situation with isis and

russia then layered on top of it. we're in a much more difficult situation in syria than we were when obama was making this decision in 2013. >> unpredictability as been the trump calling card. and the secretary of state going to moscow. we'll get to the summit with china and military ships going towards north korea. one thing we do know is what the president decided to do was 180 degrees apart from what for years he said the united states should do. >> if assad got knocked off, what do we have? we don't know if it will be worse than assad. so what are we doing? i think it's irresponsible for us to get bogged down in syria and let's end up over world war iii over syria where we don't want to be in the first place. >> they insist we won't get bogged down. it was a one time response. the president's letter to

congress explaining himself and saying he has legal justification for this says if i have to i'll do it again. what did we learn about our president. every candidate has to leave some things behind because they realize this job isn't what i thought it was. it's much easier to run for president than be president. >> this is a major clarifying moment. perhaps the first real testing moment for donald trump. his presidency was always going to be determined by events he couldn't control and how he responded to them, how he answered, how he made decisions when he had to. on the campaign trail he often took both sides of an issue. you did have people with selective hearing thinking he's an isolationist, he's a peacemaker,er talks about being against the war in iraq although that's questionable. people with selective hearing on the other side say we'll bomb the you know what out of isis. we'll be tough and strong and put in all the generals. in a campaign you can say both

things and have people hear what they want to hear. when the rubber hits the road and you have to make a policy decision that's how you figure out what kind of a president someone is. >> he's stepped in this. they hope it's a one off. on capitol hill you hear from the hawks who say we need to do more. from democrats, listen to hillary clinton. she says thank you mr. president. i applaud you for doing this. but -- >> i hope this administration will move forward in a way that's both strategic and consistent with our values. and i also hope that they will recognize that we cannot in one breath speak of protecting syrian babies and in the next close america's doors to them. >> her case is mr. president now you have a moral obligation to stop your refugee ban. to let syrian refugees come in. any bet that will happen.

>> important statement hillary made. we saw 79 senators by our counts supported this individual strike. that's a big majority of people. any questions beyond that you saw lots of division about what do we do about assad. about refugees. she's speaking to a broader view here. just one policy agreed upon, a big fight. trump needs to clarify he won't abide by his campaign rhetoric. if your doctrine is no doctrine. if your doctrine is i'm flexible that's not something people can act upon. it's unclear what you'll do in next fight. >> this is now front and center in his mind. we'll see how this develops. major turmoil on top of team trump. and president trump has a new friends. and "saturday night live's" take on the syria missile strikes. >> we love trump, we do, we do. i just had an amazing week.

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welcome back. days after the missile strikes in syria another flexing of america's military might this time in sha. a u.s. navy carrier strike group now steaming towards the korean peninsula and what the pentagon openly calls a response to the recent missile tests and other provocations by north korea. that comes after more evidence president trump has taken a different path on the world stage than the one suggested by candidate trump. back then this was donald trump's idea of dinner with xi jinping. >> get him a mcdonald's hamburger and say we got to get down to work. i give him a double, probably a double sized big mac. >> proe missed a day one crackdown on china trade practices he called illegal. >> we can't continue to allow

china to rape our country and that's what they are doing. it's the greatest theft in the history of the world. china is responsible for nearly half of our entire trade deficit. they break the rules in every way imaginable. >> but two days of talks in florida included, yes, a fancy dinner between the two leaders. vague but quite positive statements about trying to work together on economic and security challenges and a v-very different tone from president trump. >> the relationship developed by president xi and myself, i think, is outstanding. we look forward to being together many times in the future. and i believe lots of very potentially bad problems will be going away. >> a lot of potentially bad problems will be going away. we've gotten the read out from both side. read out from both sides and

this is not unusual, especially when it comes from china, they are very general. they talked bluntly and candidly. they baltimore good personal relationship. from the white house side they say they look forward to chinese actions on economic issues. let's start with security issues. normally a u.s. navy carrier group steaming towards the korean peninsula china screams. stay out of our neighborhood. we haven't heard that. that could be progress out of this summit. does the white house say anything, do they get anything tangible on the ask that we need beijing, we need you to talk to pyongyang and get him to stop. >> what we're hearing now no. they did get a commitment from china to work with the u.s. on this problem. the security problem, the economic problem. i think this meeting was so interesting because it was framed as generally an introductory meeting. this is the first time these two men have met before. incredibly complicated relationship between these two

countries. more complicated because trump was so aggressive during his campaign about china. after the syria strike white house was owning the idea that the other message that the strike sent was to china who said we asked for your help on north korea we want you to exert more economic pressure but this president is willing to act alone. if you don't believe him look what he did in syria. >> the carrier group and they give the chinese a heads up, i assume that's an exlamation point. we'll put these assets in the region. we've told north korea we won't negotiate any more. we told you to stop testing your missiles. here's john mccain on his view yes the middle east is a mess but his view on the number one strategic policy for the united states. >> the immediate crisis is not in the middle east. the most immediate crisis right now is this crazy fat kid who

is -- he's not rational. everything i read about him he's not rational. which is the worst kind of adversary is an irrational person with a nuclear weapon. i would hope the meetings with the chinese leader who is now going through the process of consolidating his position, would be that it would take sufficient action against north korea to stop this. they can do it. >> senator mccain amuses himself what he thinks are funny terms of phrase pep said fat kid there. president obama told this to president trump on the way out, wherever you're looking in the world this is the one that will come back to get you. >> no question. there's a noticeable shift in how the trump administration handles. the obama administration was working behind closed doors with china to deal with pyongyang. they made it clear they wouldn't attack them publicly. a lot of things on the economic side was because of back channel negotiations with china trying to keep the relationship open to

try to work with them to persuade them we don't do this if you help us. trump administration made the calculation because of their experts or the president himself that wasn't the proper course of action and are going to change that. the big question now becomes what actions do we see after the fact. >> what is china going to do that's tangible, that's noticeable, that the trump administration can say our tact, our policy is working. it's having an effect on pyongyang. >> as we watch and the next few days will be critical in terms of bay ying whether it interacts with north korea you see the carrier group heading that way. on the economic front if you listen to trump during the campaign and there's no secret, his message on trade and blew collar economics, america first that's why michigan and pence turned from blue to red. listen to chuck schumer saying mr. president what happened to those tough promise on china trade?

>> since donald trump has become president, when it comes to trade, his policies make america look like a he 98 pound weakling. he's done virtually nothing. >> that is a risk for the president, right you get the idea the first face to face meeting, you know the culture of china, your don't want to get in their face. these very positive statements. if he does not have tangibles to show three months, six month, nine months, a year from now on this economic front with china there's a risk? >> sure. china trade was central to his campaign and if you believed the donald trump of the campaign trail this is one of the thing he was very consistent about. you would have believed that he would have slapped a tariff on day one. he did retract the tpp which never went into effect but that was a significant action that did fulfill his campaign promise. >> it helped china because other countries in the region organized against china. >> he hasn't ripped up nafta.

he hasn't slapped a tariff on mexico. for a while there was a back door tariff part of the house tax plan. now we hear that may also be dead. so to your point if the trump you voted for was the trump who was going to get in there aggressively, smash the niceties of diplomacy, make that call to taiwan no matter what anybody said was the right protocol this is a different and more presidential looking trump that's comforting to people who didn't want a complete disruption of all of our diplomatic institutions but disconcerting to people who were hoping as a nonpolitician he would actually break some proverbial china. >> more establishment looking trump as we go forward. next, a white house shake up as the president's top three aides meet to see if they can move constant infighting and constant policy differences. its witnessed 31 crashes, 4 food fights,

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back to our political conversation in a moment. first i want to update you on breaking news out of north africa. multiple explosions in egypt this morning where tragedy was overshadowed one of the holiest days of the year. 11 people are dead after a

bombing in alexandria. the head of egypt's 0 coptic church was inside when the blast happened. hours before that two dozen people killed in a church north of cairo. video from inside the church shows the moment the explosion happened. it may be hard to watch. ♪ security teams are on the site of both of those bombings digging through debris looking for survivors. we'll keep you updated on that story as the day progresses. the u.s. big china-u.s. summit wasn't the only diplomacy. friday night a 45 minute attempt at peace take or detent between three top members of the west wing. priebus, bannon and son-in-law, jack of all trades jared kushner. it is not the first time these

three had to talk things out. while the president was aware of the meeting and he encouraged it there's still talk bulk perhaps a staff shake up or staff realignment might be in the works. what's going on here? chaos was a trademark of the trump campaign. we're a couple of weeks away from the 100 day mark. we hear the chief strategist is mad. some days he's having a big week. other days being pushed out. the president is turning to his son-in-law because he trusts him. where is the power center >> it changes week to week almost day-to-day. almost exhausting trying to keep up who super, who is down in this white house. i think the most important thing to know and the reason these stories matter is because this comes from the top. this is a president who, on the one hand encourages chaos, he often will pit advisers against each other. he believes that's a recipe for success. he's a president very aware of his coverage.

very aware of how moment to moment decisions are played out. he recognizes as much as anybody that things have not been going well. that he's not off to a successful start. so he is really trying to figure out what the formula is northwesternally that can get this operation back on track. someone like jared kushner, you know, he has an inevitable advantage because he's the president's son-in-law but yet he comes politically from a much different position than these other people who helped trump win the campaign. so trump is drawn to them because of the success of the campaign, because of the connection to the base. so this will ultimately be up to the president to decide. it changes almost day-to-day. >> you see in the personnel the very same things we see in the policy fights whether it's health care, tax reform that you have an establishment guy in reince priebus, let's cut the best deal, the america first in steve bannon. and jared kushner who steve bannon tells his friends, he's a democrat, why do we have a

democrat in a republican white house. >> it goes deeper than that. if you look how everything is off. gary cohn the top economic stroins administration who was a former democrat and aligns with jared kushner. dinah powell a wall street individual that lines up with them. deputy national security adviser. you have these teams form here. the interesting element that i've been kind of watching through is who super, who is down on a daily basis. starting with the second week of january. how gary cohn was going replace reince priebus as chief of staff. that stuff happens every single day. the ability for a west wing to operating function valuely, not only is everybody talking about changes coming it's coming from inside the west wing. that's difficult in terms of an environment to work when you have all of these huge issues. >> it's so what, who cares if you're getting things done. you're getting things done and the president likes it this way, whatever. the obama repeal and replace effort failed.

no tax reform on paper. they keep talking about infrastructure but they don't have a plan to go before congress. they have these ideological fights on capitol hill. the president calls his friends what do you think of my team, how are they doing. do you have any suggestions. they are still talk. the white house the others night said know the president told these guys get it together. will there be a shake up? white house says no. listen to kellyanne conway, president's counsel. >> is bannon there to stay? is reince priebus there to stay? >> i would assume so. that's up to donald trump. in other words, i have heard nothing but rumors and innuendos and press reports that would make any of us believe that anything other than the real shake up going on in washington is the way donald trump is coming in as a disrupter. >> you got that? >> sort of remarkably honest her saying i have no idea. and the only person who knows this is donald trump five minutes before he announces his

decision. >> she has some history here having gone out there saying i have full confidence in michael flynn right before he was shown the door. >> but i think as you were sort of saying the upshot of all of this is gridlock. because there's no clear direction coming out of the white house because trump has not chosen a side in what are ultimately ideological fights about what direction, what public stance the white house will take, and what kind of leadership they are going to exert and even what their major things are that they want to get done. he's sort of been all over the place on that. that has meant they are at the mercy of the same old republican divisions in congress. they are at the mercy of this sort of keystone cops operation of the leadership of the house of representatives. that's not a good look for a president who promised to come in, start getting things done. >> what we know when he feels challenged or he feels disappointed in the people around him he runs his business

with people knees best. his daughter, his son-in-law. so you see jared taking trips to iraq. lot of people are saying what are you doing there? i thought you were in charge of middle east peace. aren't you supposed to reinvent america. ivanka trump has moved into the west wing. listen to her. >> i would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence. i think there are multiple ways to have your voice heard. where i disagree with my father, he knows it. and i express myself with total candor. where i agree, i fully lean in and support the agenda and hope that i can be an asset to him. and make a positive impact. but i respect the fact that he always listens. it's how he was in business. it's how he is as president. >> now there are some

republicans who view her as a calming force on the president. they view her as a gateway to get to the president. a lot of conservatives remember she couldn't vote for her father in the new york primary because she's not registered as a republican. >> here's steve bannon and his wing, on domestic policy has less power and jared and ivanka has more power. bannon is this nationalist, more conservative, the trump family less conservative. this is a big move if you're a liberal. the family you're thinking are not people who are very ideologically conservative they don't have a lot of roots to the movement on capitol hill or elsewhere. a big shift, i would say from november to today where bannon who was president bannon according to "time" magazine is not or maybe president kushner at this point. >> the establishment republicans are winning. the things he managed to get done. cabinet appointments is straight republicans. next three weeks to the 100

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welcome back. we are three weeks to the 100 day mark and how you score the trump presidency depends on how you look it a. you look at it from an economic perspective jock added during the trump presidency this week was a warning sign. 98,000 jobs created in march. down from the morrow bust job growth going back to the obama administration. one month or a problem on the economy. another way to look it a. this one shines favorably on the president. unemployment rate not the jobs created unemployment rate pop that up there now at a 10 point low. that's a good thing for the president. if you score this by 40ur 1 k so farso good. there's a big question at the 100 day mark. repeal or replace obamacare that failed. america first economy depends on your perspective not the tough action on trade.

immigration enforcement has been strengthened. wall a giant question mark going forward. we don't have an infrastructure plan from the president even though that was a big 100 day priority. president trump says all is fine. >> we're only 11 weeks in but already my administration has achieved historic progress for the american people. security begins at the border. as a candidate i pledged to take swift and decisive action to secure the border and that's what i've done. >> again, depending on what your big issue s-you look at this from your perspective. we're three weeks to 100 days. congress is home for a couple of weeks of that. let's start on the health care debate which you have to say is a debacle. they were trying to get back to a deal this past week. mike pence was up there for a few days. we'll get it. now they've gone home. into the favorite thing they like town halls. can they come back and move on obama repeal. >> the elements that led to

failure of the first repeal and replace three weeks ago haven't changed. there was a reason that speak ryan and house leadership took a step back on this effort that mike pence led. they recognized that one this is incredibly difficult. two, they didn't want to snuff anything out by being overbearing. the dynamics in the house republican conference when it comes to are complicated and they can't out how to thread a needle. their ability to come back twleeks from now and get to a teal as one person told me in the wake of vice president pence's efforts despite their theater of the day they were further apart, lost more votes than they had two weeks prior when this initially failed. they are not in a good place right now. something has to change. >> this gets to the core of who president trump says he is. here's what he told the "new york times". you didn't hear me say that was over. that was in negotiation. may go on for a long time or

until this afternoon. i didn't surrender leverage. i'm not looking to gain leverage. i'm looking to get great health care. the trump making the best of what was a disappointment. he said i'll get a deal. you can't negotiate a deal with politician on obamacare you're not very good. by his own standard not very good. one of the problems in washington if you continue a negotiation on health care, very complicated issue that sets you back when it comes to tax reform. washington has proven it cannot do more than one big thing at a time or if they can do one big thing at all. >> the strategy was to for both fiscal and just sort of messaging reasons to do health care first, get it knocked out and trump and sounds very much like symbolism of this would be this is the shock and awe administration that comes in and get things done right away because look we got all these republicans. we don't need any democratic votes. we can do the things we wanted to do.

who knew health care could be so complicated. the other thing is that quote you read from the "times" makes it sound he's much more engaged with this than he seems to be. you don't see president trump really exerting himself to push the parties together personally. he's having his people do it but not weighing in in terms of i want this thing and not that. here's why i think this bill didn't work, here's the details that i want. not loin because he's not really a policy guy and that's fine, that may be an asset. but there just doesn't seem to be clear sense of what was wrong with first effort and how those things can be corrected beyond just nibbling around the edges. is there a vision for what they can make that's different. >> the one big victory under the capitol dome is neil gorsuch who will be sworn into the supreme court this week. even that, further polarized an environment that you thought couldn't be further polarized. >> that was a big victory.

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we surrounded our table with reporters. pundits for a reason. we ask them to dig deep inthey're notebook. julie pace. >> democrats are desperate to win something, anything these days which may help explain why a 30-year-old democrat in a georgia congressional special election has raised an eye-popping $8 million. he's attracting an army of volunteers from across the

country including a lot of celebrities who are trying to get voters out in early voting in a primary there. is this a district that tom price the health and human service secretary held. it's a republican district but one that trump barely eked out in november. for the ego boost alone democrats will lavish a lot on this race. >> on the 18th. phil? >> there's no secret about the infighting going on in the white house. the big question is what are the repercussions. look at capitol hill. it's been laid bare. one very senior republican official on capitol hill told me there's no white house. there's whitehouses. nobody knows who speaks for the president. what that does for members of congress creates a lot of difficulties. we saw it in a meeting last week. reince priebus, vice president pence, paul ryan and kevin mccarthy basically, the white house told them they to put the health care bill on the floor. speak are ryan said can't do that we don't that have votes. white house threatened them.

you don't know the realities, you don't understand the politics. there's confusion. when they get back from their recess they have four days to pass a spending bill. there are elements who are twoilg shut down the government to keep the wall funding in there, something republicans in both the senate and house would like to move to entitlement. no solutions yet. >> okay. four fun days ahead. >> the man to watch on capitol hill mike conoway of texas. he's replacing devin nunes, he's a big figure to watch. the key question does he run the committee as nunes did. nunes was on trump's radar, pretty favorable towards trump in a lot of ways. is conoway running the committee that way or more bipartisan, more working with democrats. >> molly? >> what is next for the resistance? there has been questions lately whether the air has gone out of the balloon of the anti-trump

protests and the left's attempts to mobilize against the new president. they are trying now, that the congress son recess to mount a new show of force, a number of progressive groups all coordinating. there will be, you know, efforts to show that people are still coming to town halls, still angry at members of congress who are at home in their districts for the next two weeks but a coordinated march on tax day april 15th next weekend, which has a number of sort of story lines, i guess. one to continue draw your attention to trump tax and potential conflict of interest. two to spotlight the tax reform plans in congress. and three, to try to take back the tax issue which traditionally has been more of an issue on the right. and to consciously go to the party which did the big tax marches back in 2009. the big thing, i think, is to just -- we will see by how many

people come out, in hundreds of cities plus d.c. are they going to get those mass numbers or are people starting to lose interest. >> keep an eye on that. i'll close with this. no secret that "shark tank" celebrity mark cuban likes to stoke talks about running for president. cuban campaigned for hillary clinton last year. he's become a student of the process of running for president. cuban is an independent. while bernie sanders has proved that isn't necessarily disqualifying to democratic primary voters cuban is putting money where his mouth is. he's giving financial support to a group called competitive democracy. that group is working on ballot reforms in texas and in part because of cuban's financial support it's look took more aggressive in ballot reform he worths elsewhere. that's it for "inside politics". thanks for sharing your sunday

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president trump makes his first major military move as commander-in-chief. >> tonight i ordered a targeted military strike. >> is it just the beginning. >> we're prepared to do more. >> u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley will be here with the very latest. and, what now? mixed messages from trump cabinet on the path forward. >> i would not in anyway attempt to extrapolate that there's