hurting you. the device never caught on. now there's all kinds of alarm clocks. even one to wake you up with a smell. cavuto is ready right now. >> neil: thank you, shepard. we're waiting to hear from sarah sanders, the press briefing getting pushed back here. all this on the same day after paul ryan announcing he won't re-run. a lot of people are thinking if the president is seriously considering getting rid of bob mueller and the president's challenge to the russians, the missiles are coming. john roberts at the white house with all of this. john, busy news day. >> yeah, sure is. the briefing was supposed to be at 3:30, then 3:45 and now 4:00.

certainly the status of robert mueller and jeff sessions and others will be forefront here. let's get to the press secretary. >> good afternoon. earlier today, the president signed a bipartisan anti-sex trafficking bill that provides law enforcement officials including state attorneys general and local prosecutors invaluable tools. the new law makes it clear to take legal action against websiting promoting advertisements for this modern day slavery. human traffic is one of the most barbaric exploits and it has no place in our world. they provide new legal recourses for victims and law enforcement by enhancing penalties for people that promote or facilitate prostitution. yesterday the was signed an executive order on reducing poverty in america by promoting

economic nobility. there's nine principles of mobility that guiding asies or public assistance programs to review all regulations related to work and send a report to the president on what they can do to get americans back to work. the trump administration recognizes that many states have been successful enacting common sense work requirement and have sign results. many others have noticed and leading the charge to provide greater opportunities to their citizens. president trump believes we can lift our citizens from welfare to work from dependence to independence and from poverty to prosperity. we're excited to see governor jerry brown work with the administration and send members of the national guard to help secure the border. with that, i'll take your questions. >> sarah, the russian military has said there's no poison gas

attack. there's no evidence of it. today a russian military official said there was an attack but it was staged by the white helmet brigade. what do you say to the russian statement that this was staged be -- by the white helmets? >> the president paints a different picture. and the president holds assad and the russians responsible for the attack. >> on the cohen raids the other day, it looks as though prosecutors are looking for some sort of documentation that might have been having to do with the action says hollywood tape. that is an effort to connect the dots between subsequent payments that were made to keep people quiet which may constitute some sort of violation for illegal campaign contributions. if the mueller investigation has now morphed from looking at russian collusion to an illegal

campaign contribution by the president's personal attorney, would that be outside the mandate? >> the president has been clear that he has a deep concern about the direction that the special counsel and other investigations have taken. this started off as russia collusion, which there was none. it's been very clear that nothing has come up over the last year. the president has spoken at length on this topic. the media continues to focus on this despite the fact that there's been no evidence after a year, we're going to continue to stay focused on the issues. >> we were told that president trump is concerned that paul ryan is retiring. might that encourage other republicans to not seek re-election. what do you say about that? >> we certainly hope that republicans will continue to

remain in the house, especially those that support the president's agenda and those campaigning, we look forward to a number of them coming out and supporting the president's agenda. can't get into details about specifics of individuals running for office. the president has been clear about how he feels about speaker ryan. he knows that he's a truly good man and will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody that can question and he wishes him well in his future. >> we were told that there is a tough political climate and republicans are facing challenges and problems going forward. some people think that president trump is part of the problems that the republicans have, that his actions have made it harder for republicans to win mid-terms. does he plan to campaign with people and does he think that he can hurt the chances of republicans as he goes out in the field? >> we think the republicans and the president have a great story to tell. we've had inincrediblely

successful first 1 1/2 years. tax cuts, deregulation, remaking of the judiciary and other things that we consider to be great successes for republicans to talk about as they look forward to the future. michelle? >> thanks. will the president consider or does he have any plans to pull the u.s. out of syria presiding over the group? >> i don't have any specific announcements on that front. >> is the white house concerned with facebook after all the talk on the hill? >> the white house supports conservatives and everyone having to ability to speak freely on a number of platforms across this country. certainly support the constitution that provides that right. >> two questions about the president's statement. what does "get ready russia." is the president targeting

personnel or assets in syria? what does he mean? >> we're maintaining we have a number of options on the table. final decisions haven't been made. >> does it mean anything at all? what does it mean? >> it means -- there's a lot there that you can read from. as the same time, the president has a number of options at his disposal and they're on the table and we look at each one of them. >> a separate question about the president's tweets. can you explain how the special counsel investigation has made for bad blood with russia? >> i think that the president has been extremely clear that the constant focus of the fact that the president and his campaign had any collusion with russia has hurt those relationships. the president has maintained for a very long time that the united states and russia having a good

relationship is good for the world. he believes that. but at the same time, it's hampered the ability to do so as well as the actions, particularly the bad actions that russia has taken, including meddling in our election. tying the president to that has created a lot of unnecessary problems. mike? >> two questions. you said the final determination on syria has not been made. does the president tweeting about it present a national security risk? >> not at all. >> michael cohen, the wall street journal and they ares have said that rosenstein signed off on it and does the white house think he should step down? >> i'm not going to get to the process. that's something that you have to talk to the department of justice about that. i don't have any announcements. >> two thoughts on syria. is the white house prepared for the possibility of direct military engagement with russia?

>> once again, all options are on the table. i don't have any further announcemen announcements. >> is that a question? >> sounds like all options are on the table and a final decision has not been made. >> the president, as you know, talked about why when it comes to tyranny, why we can't be quiet and act like surprise. the president didn't talk about a date or a time but he said get ready for something. why this time is the president not taking his own advice and being quiet? >> the president like you said -- actually answered my question for me, has not laid out a timetable. he has a number of other options as well and we're considering them and a number of timetables of any action we might take. >> the 48 timetable is out the window? just regard that? >> in a public sense, certainly the president has made some

decisions. he made a decision not to travel to latin american so we could focus on this. that was the first step. we're continuing to look at a number of options. jonathan? >> sarah, the president was direct in talking about missiles. he said get ready, russia. they will be coming. nice and new and smart. why is the president telegraphing his military intentions on twitter announcing an attack on twitter? >> again, the president has not laid out a timetable and still leaving a number of other options on the table. we're still considering a number of those in a final decision hasn't been made. >> if i can ask, another one of the tweets which stephen asked about is also a pretty direct one. he said bad blood with russia is caused by the fake and corrupt russia investigation. isn't it russia's support for what the president christmases a gas-killing animal or his meddling in our elections or his military intervention in the

ukraine, aren't those the actions that have caused bad blood? >> it's both of those things. neither one of those things are good for our country. the president has been clear that the relationship with russia is at a new low. that's due too a number of factors. certainly the things you listed off as well as the investigation are all things that hurt that relationship. >> so robert mueller's actions are similar to -- >> i didn't say that. you're putting words in my mouth. i said both of those things are bad for america. that's all i said. jeff? >> russia responded to the president's tweets saying smart missiles should go to terrorists. what is the white house's reaction? >> the president has been clear on this front. russia has proven themselves to be responsible in part for this. they guaranteed that the use of chemical weapons by syria would not happen again. they failed at that. they have also helped enable syria by vetoing six different

u.n. resolutions that protect assad. they hold responsibility in this and have proven themselves to be bad actors. >> is the white house or state department in any back channels to diffuse the tension? does the president hope to meet with president putin any time sign? >> i don't have any announcements. >> did the president meet with mike pompeo and if so, did they talk about syria? >> the president's national security team met today. that meeting was chaired by the vice president to discuss a number of options. blake? >> you said the intelligence provided certainly paints a different picture and the president holds syria and russia responsible for the attack. earlier this morning, the defense secretary said that we're still assessing the intelligence ourselves. we're still working on this. so what has changed over the last handful of hours when the

defense secretary said we're still assessing the intelligence and now to where you clearly point the finger at russia and syria? >> as i just stated to both jeff and jonathan, russia holds responsibility in the fact that they guarantee that syria wouldn't use chemical weapons again and they did. they hold responsibility in the fact that they have the six u.n. resolutions that they vetoed to help protect assad. both of those things lie at russia's feet in terms of responsibility in this process. >> so you still are assessing the intelligence then as the defense secretary stated -- >> there's things being assessed. i can't get into details. we're confident in part of this process that we're in to feel comfortable making the assertions that we have earlier today. >> thank you, sarah. you said all these things about russia and they've been bad actors, voted against the united nation, security council, resolutions and this morning the

president on twitter said that russia is supporting a gas-killing animal. does the president now believe that russia has firmly established itself as an enemy of america, especially russia said they will shoot down u.s. missiles if they fire upon syria? >> they have proven to be a bad actor around we hope that will change. >> are they an enemy of america at this point? >> that's something that russia needs to play a role in determining. we hope that they will continue -- not continue, i'm sorry, to be a bad actor and make some changes in their behavior. that's something that they have to play a role in. i'm going to keep going. april? >> has diplomacy been exhausted? >> as i said, all options are on the table. >> so are you saying -- >> again, all options are object the table. that contains a number of different things. >> so it could be in play?

>> it could be. a lot of other options also on the table. >> does the white house support the bill about keeping bob mueller from being fired? >> we don't have a administrative policy on that. john? >> two questions. on monday i asked you if the president would contact president macron and prime minister may about an alliance with france and england not unlike that president obama tried to forge in 2013. he has had two conversations with both of them. have there been any new developments and has he spoken with any other world leaders, especially those in central europe about a larger coalition instead of the u.s. going it alone in syria? >> we've had regular contact with regional allies and

partners including israel, saudi arabia, france and the u.k. and a number of other countries. we provided reading outs the conversations the president has had. both are -- the national security adviser as well as the secretary of defense, the acting secretary of state and a number of others in the administration have had regular contact with their counterparts from a number of other countries. >> the other thing that i wanted to ask, the president has a good relationship with congressman scalise, a good personal relationship with his family. what does he think about the reports that congressman scalise will run for speaker soon? >> the president has a great relationship with a number of members in the house of representatives who support his agenda. he looks forward to working with all of them over the course of the next 6 1/2 or 7 years, i guess. >> is the president considering

firing or in other ways pushing out rosenstein? >> i don't have any personnel announcements. >> one other thick. paul ryan said he's been given assurances by the white house that the president isn't planning to fire rosenstein or mueller. do you know where he's getting the assurances? is it coming from the president or others? >> i don't have any announcements on that front. >> senator markey is a member of the foreign relations committee. he said today the president must come to congress for authorization prior to another military strike on syria and others that are also saying that. does the administration intend to do that and if not, why not? >> the administration will follow whatever laws and regulations are necessary for any actions that we take because we haven't laid out any specific actions that we plan to take, i can't tell you what needs we would have to go to congress with. jim? >> sounds like the president has been left a lot of wiggle room.

when the president says get ready, russia, they will with coming, the missiles are coming, how is that anything but an announcement of a pending air strike? >> that's one option. that doesn't mean it's the only option or the only thing that the president may or may not do. just because he does one thing doesn't mean he can't do other actions as well as he hasn't laid out the timetable that would be broadcasting his intentions. >> one other quick things on speaker ryan's announcement. there's fears on capitol hill and some in the white house that a democratic wave is coming and could sweep the republicans out of power in the house and could lead to impeachment proceedings that the democrats could bring forward. what is the president's thinking on that and what is your thinking on that? >> like i said earlier, we're confident in the record we have and the successful first year in office and we expect to take

about that a lot. we would love for you to talk about that more too and we would be happy to send you talking points. >> you think a wave is come something. >> we think we have a great story to tell. we think america will be ready to listen to that and certainly has felt the impact certainly from a economic standpoint for this administration and we're proud of that. one last question. right here. >> is there anything that syria or russia could do at this point to avoid military action? >> again, i'm not going to get ahead of anything. certainly like i've said a few times today, all options are on the table and we'll continue conversations with our allies and partners and move forward from that point. thanks so much, guys. have a great day. >> neil: that was short and sweet, about 20 minutes long here. you heard the message from sarah sanders and the president and speculation post his tweet on russia regarding syria, that an

attack could be imminent and it will be coming and raising concerns that he might have broken his own rule and what he will be doing. with us press secretary for george w. bush, ari fleischer. the administration was trying to back-pedal here saying there was no indication as to the time of an attack but an attack seems to be in the offing. what are we led to believe here? >> well, neil, i have to say after the first chemical attack where president trump responded with the use of force, it's obvious that military force will be coming. he did it the first time and assad should know if he risked doing it again, it was going to happen again. the tweet was jarring. we don't have this announced by tweet but it's obvious for everybody that knows donald trump. >> neil: it wouldn't be a big surprise if he tweeted it or not. it's well-telegraphed, that he was promising a response. the question now, the tweet

aside, what kind of a response. if it were like last year and it was targeted at one air base or what have you, would that be enough to quell concerns that assad is getting away with murder here? that it would have to be stronger or in concert with others? what is your sense? >> i don't think it would be sufficient to do the same thing before. it postponed things by about a year. he's behaved for a long time but not now. so i think the president has got to turn it up more, to do more damage. one of the things i would do is take out assad's palaces in damascus and make him homeless. you warned him that his palace will be destroyed. we're not out to assassinate him

but it's a command and control center. he does operate out of there and it would be very fitting and probably scare him a lot if he realized he had no home to go to the same way he's done to countless of syrians. >> neil: thanks for the breaking news. sorry for things being truncated. i want to go to john roberts at the white house. obviously a lot of questions focusing pretty much on what we're going to do about syria and what russia is going to do in response if we do. what do you think? >> you know, we had the meeting this afternoon in the president's national security advisers that was chaired by the vice president, mike pence, going over potential options for what to do in syria. sarah huckabee sanders saying a number of times there's a number of different options on the table. 1 of those, the missiles that the president was talking about earlier today, new and smart missiles that russia is claiming they can shoot down. the president says no, you won't be able to do that. there's other options going down the diplomatic road that sarah huckabee sanders wouldn't answer as to what some of those diplomatic steps might be. the other big question is on the mueller investigation and whether or not this raid on michael cohen, the president's personal attorney's offices and

home and hotel room constituted a real straying outside of the lines for the mueller investigation. the latest news that we have out of this is confirmation that investigators were looking for documents related to the access hollywood tape, trying to connect the dots between that and the money that was paid to stormy daniels, could that be an illegal campaign contribution. i asked sarah huckabee sanders if the mueller investigation has morphed from an investigation into possible russian collusion in the 2016 election to possibly an illegal campaign contribution made to a porn star, would that be mueller now operating outside the parameters of the initial mandate, which is what the president said he shouldn't do. she said they're very clearly, the president is concerned that the direction the mueller investigation is taking, again, we have assurances from a number of people close to the president that he's not considering firing mueller, that that could be political suicide, bring a world of hurt down on his head.

i think the tenure of rod rosenstein may be more in jeopardy. we're being told by sources close to the white house as well and people familiar with the investigation that the president wouldn't likely take that step either. he's being counselled by a number of people. don't fire anybody because it will just come back to pitt you in the you know what, neil. >> neil: the fact that paul ryan wasn't going to rerun, that the president wasn't considering such an action to fire mueller, where is he getting that then? because it seems to be, you know, paul ryan putting himself out on a limb there that wasn't being entertained. >> yeah. a lot of talk about it. the president on a couple of occasions threw up his hands and say why are we keeping this investigation go something isn't there something we can do ant it? every time he makes that clear, he is told by people very close

to him that are very smart people, don't do that. it will really be horrible for you if you do. so i think the president has been convinced that, you know, you can talk about it all you like, the posture from the white house has been different than it was in the passed when sarah huckabee sanders said it before. the president is not considering firing mueller. the president himself has said not considering firing mueller. now we hear, you know what the president said the other night. a people are saying you should fire him but he's not saying no. so you know, that's muddying the waters a little bit. people are saying to the president, you can go ahead and make it look like it's a little ambiguous but don't fire him. that will create a constitutional crisis and that will be very bad for you, mr. president. particularly if republicans lose control of congress in november. >> all bets are off after that. thanks, my friend. >> thanks. >> neil: more of the prospect that things could be escalating

with syria and the russians are angry and threatening action against israel if they get involved. all of these cross currents are not helping stocks getting back some of yesterday's gains. down 218.5 points. the defense secretary jim mattis is ironing out things here. oil jumping today as well. let's go the jennifer griffin at the pentagon with the latest on what she's hearing. jennifer? >> mattis presented the latest military options to the president. he met the dutch defense minister, but was noncommittal when asked if he had seen enough evidence to blame the assad regime for the latest chemical attack. >> we're assessing the intelligence ourself. we're still working on this. >> the u.s. has a guided missile destroyer in position off the coast of syria. the u.s.s. donald cook has

roughly 75 tomahawk missiles on board and 20 surface to air missiles. and then the french friggate in position with 16 cruise mess sills on board. one of the first phone calls that the president made after the check call attack was to french president emanuel macron. satellite images from imagesat international shows that 11 war ships of russian seen in syria have put out to sea within recent hours. russian has threatened to engage any warships that fire on syria. >> the former democratic vice presidential nominee in connecticut senator joe lieberman, expert on these foreign policy matters and they're coming fast. senator, good to see you. >> good to be here. >> neil: seems the president is hinting at some action, not timing it. you think the tweet this morning

was a mistake? >> i don't -- this season a unconventional president. in this case, he's -- he's dealing with some rough customers beginning with assad. now he has russian who saw the vacuum left by the obama administration and rushed into syria. they're going to act like bullies. he has to show them that the united states will not allow themselves to be bullied by russia. >> neil: that's the proper response. not to be bullied. to do what he did last year, as a proper pinpoint attack on an air base from which a lot of these chemical attacks were apparently launched. what would be more in order this go around? >> i think by using chemical weapons again and in my opinion again and again assad is showing that he didn't get the message. so for it to be effective this

time both in the interests of the people of syria and a hum humantearian basis, that we're not going to sit back and let them and come in and dominate the region. this strike by the united states and hopefully allies has to be stronger than it was last year and probably be a more sustained strike. i would -- for instance, we have the capacity to knock out most of the syrian air force. keep them out of the skies. >> neil: what would russia do? sit idly by. >> the last couple weeks, the last couple days, they have stood by while a lot of attacks have gone on, the ones that president trump ordered last year -- >> neil: we gave them a heads up last year. >> right. the israelis have attacked targets in syria over and over again. >> neil: you think the russians

issued a stand down order to the israelis. what do you think of that? >> they're not going to listen to that. it is different. up until now, every time the israelis have struck and they have struck because they have seen the iranians doing something that israelis think will threaten them. they have knocked it out and the russians are haven't done anything about it. we can't -- the russians shouldn't be there. they saw a vacuum left by the obama administration -- >> neil: they say no chemical attack even occurred. >> the president was right in calling assad an animal. he saw enough intelligence to believe a chemical attack occurred. i've seen enough evidence. >> neil: is it indisputed evidence? when you risk american lives to force that point. i assume the president has more than i do. >> and more than i do. jo that there's plenty of evidence to support that theory.

i worry if there isn't or the russians have suckered him in to something. >> no. knowing assad, he has a track record and done this over and over again. he's killed his people in a lot of different ways. >> neil: absolutely. >> gas is the one -- >> neil: but do you think, senator and i know you -- we talked about this last year. that the problem is assad? he's in power. that's it. >> the problem is assad. he just a brutal dictator. unlike the leadership in tunisia and egypt when their people rose up, his reaction was to turn his government's guns on his own people and about 500,000 as a result are dead. assad in my opinion would not be in power today were it not for iran and russia. so they're responsible for keeping him there. the rest of the world doesn't have to sit back and watch them

dominate this picture. the count sequences for us, you can't get away from it. the europeans are already dealing with a tremendous refugee flow from this region as a result of the war in syria. the iranians are working on missile development that will threaten us here at home. >> neil: that is -- let me switch gears with you. a lot continuing this after the ongoing investigation that has roped in the president's personal lawyer in the raid of hits offices. a lot of people saying the president should fire bob mueller. what do you think? >> i heard what jon said. i hope the president doesn't do that because -- i understand why he's angry at mueller. i understand why he thinks he's being treated unfairly. but in our system, the law is above everyone, including president. if he fires the guy that is

investigating him, it looks like he's putting himself over the law. >> neil: but his point is the guy investigating him is going too far and using gestapo-like tactics to raid offices, paul manafort, now his personal lawyer and we're told that he's just -- >> i understand why. but i think the consequences of him firing mueller may be even rosenstein will be more harmful to himself and to our system. he's still got the right of appeal in court and if this should ever go to an impeachment, they still have to go a majority in the house and 2/3s in the senate. that is -- >> neil: he's facing trouble one way or the other if it ever came to that if the democrats were to seize the house. all bets are off. whatever is coming on this investigation, they're going to rake him over the coals. >> probably. you never know. listen, i say this about bob

mueller. i don't know him real well but i know him. certainly seems like he's on the move in a very serious and aggressive way. but i said from the beginning. if he decides he doesn't have enough to charge the president, he might charge somebody else or he thinks it's improper for him as special counsel to actually charge the president of the united states -- >> neil: but he blessed this raid. >> yeah. he turned it over to the prosecutors. >> so last week if the president was, you know, the target per se but being investigated, are things different now a week later? >> this one is -- this latest development with cohen's office and resident, something else is going on there. >> neil: so he went from being a subject of interest to something

more? >> right. the president? not clear. this is a controversial thing. i'm going to speak as a lawyer. the attorney client privilege would normally stop something like, this you have to ask yourself, i don't know, what is the evidence that let lawyers like rosenstein and then the u.s. attorney -- >> neil: now looking back here. this is really running far afield from whatever was thought to be the original -- >> that's what happens with special counsels. ask the folks dealing with iran contra and whitewater. >> neil: are you worried this is getting way out of hand? >> i tell you, the best thing for the country if -- it's got to come to a conclusion. what i started to say before is that i think mueller is -- has enough confidence in himself to announce at the end that when it comes to the president, there's not a chargeable offense here.

he might just issue a report on the president's behavior to congress and let congress decide. i think he has enough -- i don't know this. i'm just speculating. enough respect for the office of the presidented that the idea of charging the president with a crime really goes very far. >> neil: the timing and these things is coincidental. you can argue whether you like him or not, support him or have questions about his conduct in the past. all of this went down on the very same day, this raid when he's contemplating going to war in syria. i think it's weird. >> well, my guess is in that case there's no connection. that the prosecutors weren't thinking about it. the final decision was made in an office that is run here in new york by somebody that president trump made u.s. attorney for the southern district. so it's a coincidence.

's been thinking about that. this president is an unusual man, a strong man. think about the stress he's under as a person. we don't think about that. he's got these enormous decisions, consequential, life and death about syria, what to do. meantime, his personal lawyer and long-time friend, michael cohen, gets his offices raided. >> that's why he calls it a witch hunt. >> i understand why he's upset about it. i hope that he doesn't take what might seem like a logical stop that will hurt him more in the long run, which is to fire mueller. let him come to a conclusion. he has a lot of ways in which -- nobody should prejudge what mueller is going to do with regard to the president. he may do something to manafort, may do something with regard to cohen. don't prejudge him. whatever happens, president has all the powers of appeal to

american public opinion and to the courts and if it happens to the congress. >> neil: real quickly. paul ryan not going to run. he makes the 41st prominent republican that isn't sticking around. >> yeah. >> neil: not necessarily mean doomful things to the party in power, but you do get a sense that there's almost a jail break going on here. what to you think is happening? >> i think it's a combination of things. one that it looks like it's going to be a democratic year in the elections particularly in the house. more recent polls show getting closer than before. so don't assume anything. anybody that assumes anything after the result of the 2016 presidential election is heading in a direction that they shouldn't head. the second thing is, for a lot of people, service in the congress is not what they hoped it would be. it's frustrating.

they're under the lights. i was there 24 years. so i think that's part of it. part of it may be all the controversy every day with the president and the media. a certain point people say i want to live my life in a different way. as paul ryan said today, i have a lot of admiration for paul ryan. he's a jack kemp republican. i love jack kemp and have the greatest admiration for him. so him leaving is a loss but i understand it completely. >> neil: do you think right now the way things stand right now that the president can weather this? have you talked to him enough? do you get a sense from him that he's holding up or just overwhelmed, this is driving him nuts? the investigation, all the cross

currents? >> i don't talk to him a lot. but my impression from others that do is that he feels this. he's not one of these guys that concealing his emotions. he has a strength to him. he's a battler. he's competitive. >> neil: that's what got him elected. >> maybe he has the able to withstand all this because he does let it out. >> neil: that's interesting. i hear you. >> yeah. >> neil: you were bottled up. >> i know. >> neil: joe lieber pan, always fun seeing you. >> you too. >> neil: a lot to discussion. thanks to your patiences. a lot going on. the likes of which we have rarely seen in a single day. i left out one of the world's riches men being grilled by democrats and republicans alike. how is the 33-year-old

billionaire handling it? i'll leave you with this impression. quite well. i'm just worried about the house and taking care of the boys. zach! talk to me. it's for the house. i got a job. it's okay. dad took care of us.

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>> why is the president telegraphing his military intentions on twitter? announcing an attack on twitter? >> again, the president has not laid out a timetable and still leaving a number of other options on the table. we're still considering number of those and a final decision hasn't been made. >> neil: whatever you make of the president's tweet on the matter and sort of telling russia you're aligned with the wrong guys, is there any surprise that he said or what he tweeted, telegraphed a number of times that he's going to do something, that would imply some military action. the bottom line is how soon that would happen and what kind of action, neither which the president outlined in his message today or sarah sanders hinted at. right now with us, the navy seal

that killed osama bin laden, robert o'neal. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> neil: what do you think of that, the back and forth as if there was surprise with the president, what he was tweeting. what do you think? >> there's no doubt that he did it. i don't think he's telegraph ago timeline but probably overstepping. i don't think twitter is the place when potentially worst case we're on the bring of a world war in that area. we're dealing with russia, dealing with the iranians, syria, bashar al-assad and turkey. i don't think it's the time to do it by twitter. got the message. there's seven warships that left the port there and russia responded -- >> neil: what did you make of that? was that in response to that or the threat that the president is going to do something. the republican critics said the president made it sound like a war game. >> may seem like a war game at

some point but i don't think it is. >> neil: do you think that was the president's intent? >> i'm trying to be optimistic. his intent is to let them get to the negotiating table and take it through. we've done it before. >> neil: who would it be? >> the russians. they're the -- >> neil: they control the shots. >> one of the reasons that al-assad is still in power. >> neil: do you trust the rushes? >> no. >> neil: they handle -- >> we don't trust the russians. maybe president trump is thinking from a different play of power. they believe we might just be serious enough that they don't want static targets in that port. they're countering some of our drone technology. hopefully this is a way to get them to the table and take what we're doing there seriously. i do disagree tweeting about it the way it was tweeted. >> neil: the stock market

continues to tank. the russian rouble is close to two-year lows. is that a reminder that the president and those here, you don't want to agitate that? >> i'm sure that president trump brought it up a couple days ago. if we were together -- we would rather help the russian economy than gone to war with russian. nobody wants to. but i'd rather be on the israel, united states side than on the syrian backed iranians and russians. if it goes toe to toe, we're going to hand it to them. >> neil: the russians sent out a warning to the israelis and probably a phone call involving benjamin netanyahu to stand down. >> yeah. they're pre-i have -- privy to a lot of stuff. >> yeah. >> neil: israel is not going to stand down.

>> yeah. the iranians have a bigger influence there with hezbollah. they have never denieded -- israel is our strongest ally in the world. they're going to put their interests first. they're surrounded by enemies, number 1 being hezbollah backed iran. because of iran and bag damage, they have a bridge to syria. iran -- israel is concerned about it, but russian went say much. israel can't handle it themselves but we do have their backs. i would like to see this talked through as opposed to a war because war is a lot more serious than social media. >> neil: do you wonder about what we have to do this time versus last time. last time it was a targeted strike at an air base from which a lot of these planes were launching the attacks. now we're told it would have to involve multiple air bases. it would have to be different.

>> it would have to be different. last time it was a strike with a few missiles on an air field. this time, the french is on their way. we have the u.s.s. harry truman on the way. this time i hope that we take the time to do what i call that tactical pause. make sure whomever is using the gas, if it was the syrians, they need to be hit. it's a time to stand up and show we're serious. it won't have to have the u.n. that chemical weapons need to be dealt with severely. we have proven that we'll deal with it sometimes. but now that -- and barber assad and isis shown that if they use sarin gas on children, you have to deal with it. >> neil: and the russians were supposed policing -- >> they said they were going to do it and lied for a change. >> neil: thanks, rob.

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>> where is your requirement? where is your accountability to allowing this to occur in this country? >> how can cambridge analytica let this happen? >> why should we trust you to follow-through on these promises when you demonstrated that you're willing to flaunt your own internal policies and government oversight when the needs meets you. >> neil: democrats and republicans lecturing somebody on trust, accountability, on

keeping your word, doing everything by the book? no matter how you feel about facebook, i barely understand the technology, by the way, but pot meet kettle. you heard me say it. it's like me giving you dietary advice, lecturing anybody about how they should be performing as a company or an entity when this is the the same gang that is bringing to us trillion dollar deficits and no accountability for spending, government shut downs real or threatened and they're lecturing this guy that created facebook and likening it to all the military hacks that we've seen, all the money we're loosing and he's evil. all right. it's way too early. so after two days of testimony and mark zuckerberg, one of the world's richest med, the head of facebook, taking the beating and going to capitol hill, yesterday

before senators, today before the house, how did he fare? is he getting the same message from the people that should be reigning himself? i found it a little bit audacious. that's all i'm saying. what did you think? >> yeah, a touch. congress that has let debt and deficits run out of control. and the treasury department is reporting revenues. so make we can take the money and throw it out the window. >> neil: and they talk about accountability. i'm not saying facebook wasn't showing favoritism. all of that should be examined and what have you. i think the picking and deciding what was an issue and what wasn't, i worry they go too far. i've seen it before. industries you like, industrying you might not like, the regulatory hammer comes down and hammers everybody. >> i agree. that would be very bad, especially for myself and my

clients that are tech stockholders. the stock market as far as the tech stocks responded well. gosh, watching this commentary neil, one of the senators asked him how to set up and e-mail address. one said what is this wi fi thing on my phone? because you know, zuckerberg was giving them a lesson on everything on the internet. what is good about that? if you're a tech sector holder, we know facebook, they did the old help us help you help me type of thing. they want to figure out with help from facebook how they can regulate. if you own that stock, that's what you wanted to hear. that's the self-regulation aspect that's been going on. an argument probably failed the company somewhat. the government doesn't know where to start. >> neil: you sound like one of those smart aleck whipper

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♪ >> jesse: i am jesse watters along with kimberly guilfoyle, juan williams, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." we have just heard from the white house after president trump sounded off again about the raids involving his personal attorney and the russia probe. >> the president has been clear that he has deep concern about the direction of the special counsel. this investigation started off as rorschach collusion of which there was none. it's been clear nothing has come up ove t