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foreign affairs taking center stage for the trump administration at this time. within the past hour, secretary of state rex tillerson just arriving in italy. this is the first stop on a trip that will also take him to russia this week. also a show of force for the u.s. the military has ordered an aircraft carrier group to move closer to the korean peninsula in response to recent provocations by north korea. now, the president reacting to the twin church bombings in egypt that were also following today. it left at least 38 geddead. he tweeted so sad to hear of the terrorist attack in egypt. u.s. strongly condemns. i have great confidence that president el sisi will handle the situation properly. also president trump faced with a defiant bashar al assad. russian military jets resumed missions from the bomb base less than a day after the u.s. air strikes.
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>> here's what i think assad is telling trump, f you. >> now many with wonders what is president trump's next move based on that. and just this afternoon, news about another shakeup in national security council. an administration source confirms kt mcfarland is getting reassigned. it comes just days after steve bannon was removed from the principles committee. kelly owe do'donnell following story for us in palm beach, florida. the question that folks are asking here, what is the reason behind this reassignment? >> reporter: good to be with you begin. the president's winding down his time here in palm beach. he will be heading back to washington tonight. and the reason is that it really reflects the new boss at the national security council. we have watched over these weeks of the trump administration all the controversy around michael flynn, former national security adviser, who was pushed out of that job. and soome of the key people
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that he had on his team are being reassignmented. one ofhem the deputy national security adviser comfort t mcfarland is out of that position. but offered something new. we're told she will be offered an ambassadorship likely to singapore, that is subject to senate confirmation. so it is a realignrealignment, reflects that the president has a new national security adviser and it was a pledge when he selected hr mcmaster that he could put his own team in place. so that is part of what we're seeing here. and with steve bannon, the chief strategist, certainly someone from the campaign world of dutd now a senior adviser in the would white house, he's a political person and it is unusual on tradition to have someone with that kind of back be ground serving at the national security council which involves policy experts and subject matter experts for all the regions of the world and all the hot spots around the world. it's spoil driven, npolicy driv
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political. so removing him is another change under the leadership of hr mcmaster. so they are not sur are pripris it is how mcmaster is able to put his own imprint on the national security council. >> and talking about policy, syria and the trump administration also you're hearing from them on that very topic? >> reporter: this is a complex difficult situation where are for a new years now, the u.s. has had a tense relationship with syria over its own attacks on its civilians. the refugee flow that has followed from that and of course the president's action in the recent days after bashar al assad's attack on his own people using chemical weapons, sarin gas, president trump of course calling for that limited strike at the airfiel there in syria. so trying to see how does that noshape the direction of policy towards syria.
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the u.s. is not according to top officials actively seeking regime change by the u.s. only participating, but believes that there can't be a future for assad in a peaceful syria. so isis is there in syria, the u.s. wants to deal with that. also trying to balance this difficult relationship with syria whose protector is of course russia. rex tillerson is on his way to a big meeting this week with the foreign minister of russia, he arrived in italy just a short time ago and earlier he is on the sunday shows and he commented on this policy. >> 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 is no change to our military posture. >> and the reference to russia's commitment back in 2013, vladimir putin trying to diffuse concerns at that time when assad used chemical weapons by saying that the influence that russia
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has over syria could be so effective that it would prevent any further use of chemical weapons. and that is what is tying up vladimir putin now and some perhaps reflected responsibility for what happened in syria. that will be a big part of the meetings this week. >> lots to watch, that meeting coming up. kelly o'donnell, thank you for that, with the president there in florida. after the strike in syria, some of presidentrump's most ardent supporters are asking the question what happened to his america first policy. hallie jackson has that part of the story for us. >> it's going to be america first. remember that. >> reporter: for president trump, a two word world view. >> america first. america first. america first. >> reporter: clear on the campaign trail as he railed against intervention. then came his syrian strike and the near immediate backlash from his base. >> this is unbelievable. this is not what we voted for. >> reporter: that is conspiracy
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theorist and trump supporter mike certain vich making it clear that takes betrayal. >> you're is seeing a lot that really believe that donald trump represented a very, very sharp break with the bush era of foreign policy and that the reality is that right now he's not. >> reporter: the editor of one right wing website tweeting i'm officially off the trump train. ann coulter writing those who wanted us meddling in the middle east voted for other candidates. and breitbart saying unrest? i'm apoplectic. >> i know trump like he said was america first, but sometimes that doesn't always work out. >> reporter: if fulton county, good, some of the president's backers supportive but watchful. >> i do not think that he should continue to do air strikes, but i think it was a good warning. >> o >> reporter: even as the administration faces new questions, the president's most nationalistic supporters aren't
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totally turning those banks. remember that editor? he writes now no one is abandoning trump. proof programs the president's most loyal defenders will stay that way. hallie jackson, nbc news, palm beach. let's bring in jain jeremy s and tim carney. tim, we've heard from hallie jackson there talking about america first and that sort of question what happens to the base next. what does happen to the base next, tim? >> well, if certainly was a part of the primary electorate that didn't want anything do with marco rubiotf certainly was a part of the primary electorate that didn't want anything do with marco rubio certainly was t of the primary electorate that didn't want anything do with marco rubio frsz aand his interventional foreign policy or jeb bush. but on the other hand, you have the fact that when american presidents start bombing foreign countries, they seem to go up in the polls. so you'll have that small base there getting upset, but for we
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are, for worse, americans seem to really get excited b. presidents who bomb people. >> and talking about america first, the nationalist, if you will, drumbeat that this president has pushed forward, many believe to be a steve bannon issue, jeremy, you were writing about bannon, his influence, his world view and what it meant, that just coming out today in the "new york times." and what it meant to this administration. with his removal as we were just reporting here from the principles committee, how do you see this fitting into where this administration may go into next? >> i don't know that it fittings very neatly at all. i think they're isolated incidents regardless of whether or not bannon was on the security council, the strike would have gone foshd. i thi forward. i think the fallout is mitigated somewhat because the strike was so limited. it really was a pinprick precision hit and there is no indication that there will be any others anytime soon.
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i think you really have to keep an eye on north korea to see what type of escalation happens over there, but for the moment, the america first world view that bannon holds and trump shares is really prevailing inside this administration when you look at policies like trade especially. i think that is where you see this headache. >> so you can see them co-existing if you will, these two thematics. because we are early in some 80 days or so here. tim, reflect on what jeremy said thereand add in kt mcfarland and that headline that we got just this afternoon. where do you think the evolution is if there is any change or the tact if you want to call ithat in this administration? >> well, you've definitely had some of a move from kind of team trump folks to people who frankly are a little more professional. not necessarily talking about kt mcfar land, but hr mcmaster
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replacing flynn, moving bannon out of the principles committee and a tact toward more professionals. so that is the worry that he is being captured, that he's going native as we used to say about the swamp creatures. so when you listen to lindsey graham as we had that quote earlier where he's saying assad is saying f you, the question is you could imagine -- whatever his ideology, his philosophy about foreign policy, you know he's a counter puncher. so will lindsey graham, rub, jo marco rubio, john mccain, going to be able to rally donald trump into a more full-fledged war? will it remain a pin fricke prie same path that w brought us with iraq. will people beat the drums for another war. that's where a lot of us are
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worrying. >> lots of interesting points there, tim. jeremy, let's follow-on with that idea plus what you brought up which is north korea, this as we se see the vinson group moving closer to korea. the counter punch is different in syria than it is in north korea. what do you think can be translated from what we saw this past week from syria to north korea, if anything? >> well, you have a young presidency trying to get its sea legs on foreign policy at a time when the world really is in crisis on multiple fronts. and you have a president who is ultimately above anything else, but about projecting strength. strength militarily, strength economically. that's what he wants the world to see when they think of america. so i don't think it's surprising at all that you see this enhancement of military presence near north korea.
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i think the question is, what happens next. when kim jong-un does test us again, what is trump's response. and i know that there is a very serious debate going on inside the trump administration about that at this moment. >> and this after the conversation with president xi and you saw the quote that we we were sharing earlier in the last hour, this about president trump saying if china won't do anything, we will. so he seems to be set going up again that presentation of strength that jeremy is talking about, but what does it mean for action. >> trump has said in the past that one of the reasons you want to present strength is to prevent having to use it. and that if you show weakness and this is the critique of barack obama, he said don't cross the red line and then assad crossed the red line, used chemical weapons on his people and that was a show of weakness and this is a counter show of strength. so if you see it as dog park activity, which is one way i've
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often tried to understand trump, you just bark and you bite once and hopefully that is a back ck offer. and it's not what we saw in libya and iraq which is the first step in an attack. so is this strength with an effort to get the other guy to back down with the hope of not it becoming a real brawl. that is my sort of one reading of this. but we're so new in trump that we don't know for sure. >> so new in trump and quickly here then, jeremy, we had a coming out party for rex tillerson today on national media. how does he play in the dog park here? >> i think that he projected that very strength that donald trump is all about at his core. i think that seeing him off stage for this past week, it was quite unusual considering all of the international crises you had unfolding and it got to the point where he was really no longer annual to stay behinds
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scenes where he may beost comfortable. but you know, when you listen to what he said this morning about russia especially, and this being -- this situation in syria ultimately following on the shoulders of russia and its failures, that was striking. >> first time out and many giving him good grades so far depending on of course which side of the aisle you're on. thank you both. >> thank you. part of the questions here that has been asked by our past panelists, what is next in syria? we'll talk about tactical options and diplomatic next steps, what the trump administration should prioritize. and in sweden, another man has been arrested for involvement in friday's attack. the latest on that, suspects and motives. when it's time to move to underwear toddlers see things a bit differently thanks to pampers easy ups while they see their first underwear you see an easy way to potty train pampers easy ups our first and only training underwear
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when you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, little babies, with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line, many, many lines. >> after a day from that statement from president trump, u.s. warships bombed the home base for the chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians including ten children. russian president putin condemned the air strikes calls it an act offing a agrees and violation of international law. rex tillerson is urging russia to rethink aggression and violation of international law. rex tillerson is urging russia to rethink its relationship with syria. >> every time one of these horrific attacks occurs, it draws russia closer into some level of responsibility.
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>> tillerson's criticism may make discussions a little awkward. as ceo of exxon, tillerson made deals with russian oil companies and the russian government itself. and it endeared him to president putin who awarded him with russia's award of friendship. for more on this, i'm joined by rebecca grant and also mark ginsburg. mark, we'll start with you on this. rex tillerson the right person to be there and what can he get out of russia? >> well, the fact is that he's on his way and he's trying to get the g-7 countries aligned with a better approach collectively to try to deal with russia on syria. but what is lost in the equation here, is that while mr. tillerson is on his way to russia, the fact is that russia is really interested in assad to three reasons. their military bases on the mediterranean, the fact that
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russia was the largest exporter of arms to syria and made most of its foreign currency off of those sales, and number three, because heepresents ahiite bullwark against sunni terrorism. the real culprit here unusual to russia is iran. iran has a far greater vested interest in assad's longevity than russia. >> and on that note, they had a joint statement coming from iran today, coming from hezbollah on this very issue against the united states. and to you on that, rebecca, has that congealed, if you will, this relation sip that russia has with syria also iran as ambassador ginsburg was talking about? >> iran and hezbollah have been congealed for a long time. what different now with russia, i think tillerson's message is russia, your days of playing around in syria with no
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consequences are coming to an end. so tillerson will be looking to take that message, the message that the cruise missile strikes put him in a strong position to make that. privately he will use everything he knows about russia to try to look for some kind of deal. that is what is really new. trump administration really wants to move forward and work quickly on syria. and tillerson will have to look for the ground work to make that kind of deal. >> does his mixed history which i talked aboutwork to make that kind of deal. >> does his mixed history which i talked about help or hurt him more, rebecca? >> i think it's a net positive for tillerson. he knows what he's going into. he knows that groundwork, he knows the adversary. >> he knows the players. kt mcfarland, mark ginsburg, when we look at this, what does that tell you about the way this administration is evolving when
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it comes to international affairs? when we look at again the national security council as it's evolving, what do you make from the kt mcfarland piece of news today? >> i think she was highly partisan person who was put in there by michael flynn, the disgraced former national security adviser. and general mcmaster wants his own team in there. look, that number two job is probably the most essential deputy position in any deputy position in t.s. government. that organization that is known as the deputies committ has t be chaired by a highly competent, highly respected individual who has interagency experience. i'm afraid. >> mike: mcfarland is not necessarily the best manager. >> i want to also talk on this other topic happening at the very same time.
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carrier group vinson going into the korean peninsula. what do you make of the carrier group moving there and the options that have been discussed at least put out there that we have heard here at nbc news, the three options placing u.s. nuclear weapons in south korea, again that aggressive show of force, second option target and kill north korea's leader, that also part of it, and then again the third option covert action. what do you make of all that is happening and what we're hearing about the korean peninsula? >> well, let's take the tick tock. first of all, there was the missile launches by north korea. we sent an anti-ballistic missile system to south korea. the chinese reacted very negatively to that. there was a summit meeting between president xi and president trump. they clearly had to have reached a tentative understanding, not an agreement, understanding.
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and now the united states essentially is going to flex its muscles more because these missile launches continue by north korea. in the end no one has a good answer here as to what to do. if someone did, we'd heard about it by now. >> it's been many years that they have been working on it. rebecca, your thoughts on what the ambassador said. do you agree? >> agree. so good move putting the vinson strike group. this is just a standard rotation. putting more pressure, continued pressure on north korea. we have lots of forces in south korea, thaad, et cetera. and the carrier group just again shows that we are keeping our military pressure on as we work that really tough international situation. >> r >> thank you both. next for you, attacks in egypt. isis claims responsibility for two church bombings today on palm sunday. dozens were killed. we have the latest.
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. live at mchsnbc headquarter in new york and we're following breaking news from egypt. president abdel fattah el sisi has declared a three month state of emergency after twin bombings there today, a total of 38 dead and more than 100 others wounded. the first explosion happening in a packed st. george church north of cairo seen here. the moment of the blast captured on a televised service, killing 27 and wounding 78. then there was second ast coming hours later in front e o saint mark's cathedral. 11 more casualty, another 35 injured. isis taking credifor both attacks. president trump tweeted so sad to hear of the terrorist attack in egypt, u.s. strongly condemns. i have great confidence that president el sisi will handle situation properly. want to stay on top of that story here for you. also have new details on
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friday's deadly truck attack in sweden to tell you about. police in stockholm say they have arrested a second suspect in that attack that left four people dead, 15 others injured. at least five others have been detained. and police say the 39-year-old man who they say drove the truck into a department store was an isis sympathizer. police say isis propaganda was found on his laptop. though know group has claimed responsibility. the suspect was wanted for deportation after his request for asylum was rejected last summer. a vigil for the victims will be held on monday. judge gfrp oneil gorsuch wi sworn in as a supreme court justice tomorrow. next, how he will shift the tone of the court and how his unconventional con on fir nation process could change the game in congress. remember here at ally, nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. who's with me? we're like a basketball team here at ally. if a basketball team had over 7... i'm in. 7,000 players. our plays are a little unorthodox.
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will be sworn in as the nation's newest supreme court justice. his confirmation is a big victory for republicans after a vacancy battle that lasted through two administrations. and as pete williams tells us, he could have an immediate impact on the bench. >> reporter: 66 days since he was nominated by president trump, federal appls court judge xwch oig wneil gorsuch, a punishing hearings and a change in senate rules to eliminate the filibuster. >> he will make a superb justice. >> reporter: democrats face the inevitable, no longer hoping to block him. >> we are charging judge gorsuch to be the independent and fair minded justice that america badly needs. >> reporter: the vote, 54-45, three democrats voted yes. don lee, heitkamp, and manchin. >> the nomination of neil m. gorsuch of colorado to be associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is
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confirmed. >> the most consequential decision i've ever been involved in was the decision to let the president being elected last year pick the supreme court nominee. >> reporter: neil gorsuch becomes a justice monday when he's sworn in with a public ceremony at the white house like the one 11 years ago for assume alito. sotomayor and kagan were sworn in at the court because he thought that sim bomb lized judicial independence. gorsuch will hear and vote on the final cases of the term including an important test of religious freedom, a lutheran church in missouri that was denied state funds to resurface its preschool play ground says that is religious discrimination turning it down while public schools got the money. >> that was pete williams reporting. i want to bring in christopher king, former obama deputy council who led the confirmation strategies for justices sotomayor and kagan. chris, good to see you here. with what has happened to get in
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gorsuch oig as next supreme cou justice, some are saying the system is broken. from what you experienced getting the last two confirmed, what do you believe the system -- what is the status of the system right now? >> thanks, richard. i think that senator mcconnell and i agree on one thing, this is probably the most consequential thing he's done. and i would argue that he will find himself in history being judged as a person who has personally broken the senate. i think the fact that you look -- rules used to provide that you needed a 60 vote threshold to confirm and the reason was to build by part shan c is an consensus. but republicans were so desperate to put a republican on the court that they changed the rules. and i think from now on, this confirmation process and the supreme court process will get a lot more partisan and a lot more extreme on both sides unfortunately. >> so having gotten through two
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previous court justices, what are you hearing from those at the supreme court, those involved in the process? >> i think that we've seen from even before justices passed away that a lot of justices were expressing a lot of the concern about how partisan and how political this process has come and think that we saw that in a way that when president obama knowdge natured sotomayor and kagan, he did extensive consultation with senators from both sides of the aisle oig.nat kagan, he did extensive consultation with senators from both sides of the aisle oig. in this case candidate trump consulted two conservative interest groups, federalist society and heritage foundation, and gave hardly any consideration to the views of democrats. and a lot of people are concerned about what this means for nominees in the future and on for how the court will be viewed. i think that president clinton went to great lengths with this nomination of chief judge merrick garland last year to try not to politicize the courts
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because he really understood and respected the courts as a an institution and not just another political body. >> the former president was a constitutional scholar. we have a new president where the question might be what is his personal tie to this supreme court, his involvement. he got a win, but the question might be what is his commitment to the supreme court. you're saying that it's merely an expression of his political leanings? >> i think that's right. i think that you look at the way that he'so outsourced this entie process to two ideological groups, it shows that he's not personally engaged and he wants to use the courts as another way to rack up political victories. and when people call this a win for the president and republicans, that is how they see the supreme court confirmation process unfortunately. and i think that the supreme court should be viewed more than a political football, more than wins and losses. and i think that ite frkly, if have to cat and change the rules in the middle of the
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game,i inthen you can't legiti e legitimately call it a win. >> yes or no, merrick will be the next nominee? >> i don't think so. but i think president trump should give him a hard look at treating him more fairly. >> chris, thank you so much. in downtown dallas, a march for immigration reform and racial equality. we have an update there. we'll also hear from one woman trying to help the children of undocumented immigrants. what happens to children when their parents face deportation. you don't let anything
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december and has garnered more than 300,000 followers. on friday, she praised president trump in a tweet saying she welcomed his action against the, quote, killers of her people. in dallas, thousands are marching this afternoon in opposition to president trump's immigration reform. immigrants, refugees and dreamers demonstrating against the policies they say separate them from their families. a dhs report shows about a half million immigrants were deported last year. and with a new administration making immigration policy changes, the children of undocumented immigrants face an uncertain future. here is the story of one woman trying to help them. >> reporter: when nora heard a knock on her door eight years ago, she didn't know she was opening the door on what will become her new life's mission. >> two kids came in my life asking for help. >> reporter: what started with two led to hundreds and finally
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more than 1,000 children all u.s. citizens with undocumented parents. >> what would happen to them if both parents are deported? >> they would become orphans of immigration. >> reporter: to avoid the children being put into foster care or up for adoption, these parents grant nora power of attorney over their kids. some come for a few days. others stay for months. >> she's a mother to me, you know. she's my savior. >> reporter: like this 15-year-old whose parents were deported to india. >> she does everything for me. it's just amazing how a woman that i had never met in my life with welcome me so much as her own child. >> reporter: this 10-year-old knows exactly what to do if she is separated from her mother. >> she told me to open the door, just call her and to come and to pick me up. >> reporter: nora says those
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phone calls have becoming more common since president trump took office. >> i'm an american citizen and i'm an orphan. my father was deported. >> reporter: she has been giving these children a voice and meetings with local leaders in south florida and washington. >> to be an measuamerican citizd without rights. nobody is paying attention. >> reporter: an immigrant herself, nora takes no money from the parents saying they have already given her so much. >> they are giving me a piece of their heart. >> reporter: and in return, nora gives these parents what they want most, peace of mind. nbc news, miami. trump's supreme court nominee was confirmed. and he won praise from both sides of the oil for ordering strikes on syria. why some are saying this could be the best week yet for the new president. needs to be fixed... trust safelite autoglass. for these parents, driving around was the only way to get their baby to sleep.
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president trump is wrapping up a week that even his critics might grudgingly call a success. he took military action against the regime of syrian president bashar al assad after syrian forces allegedly executed a chemical attack against their own people. the move garrered support of u.s. allies and some former detractors, as well. >> i told him that i thought it was the right thing to do and i thought that it had far more impact than just a series of strooi air strikes. it showed that america is interested in asserting its leadership. >> i want to applaud the president for taking action. it was justified, it was necessary. >> and then there was supreme court justice nominee neil gorsuch. he was confirmed by the senate this week. even if it can mecan did mean republicans had to go nuclear to get it done. so that is the question about
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that 830 0 days in or so and so are saying this is the best week so far for the president. previous days not so successful. what do you say? >> well, let's recap the week. we had a jobs report that was the worse that we've seen in nearly a year. one of the worst that we've had in the last three years that underperformed by about 100,000 jobs. the president's senior adviser was kicked off the natiol security council. and that aiser and his son-in-law are in a feud that is ripping apart the administration. only in the child standard that the media affords donald trump is this a successful week. >> the media affords, what you're saying. let's not bring that in. that is a different conversation. noel, your thought on this? is this the best week for this president so far given his -- go ahead. >> well, i mean, i knew my counter part would have a very negative spin and it was very
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depressing if i were to listen to that. but on the contrary, if you really look at what happened, we got a supreme court justice confirmed, which we xwraf lgrav needed. it's important to get the courts moving and to have that seat filled. and so that we had filled. and the other thing was the syrian strike. we had people even germany came forth and said that it was a smart move. and understandable. so you have to look at this globally and in america and i think it was a great week for trump. and it would be nice if we could have, you know, both sides a little bit of kumbayaish saying that this was for once it was a good win, it was a good week for not only america, but for trump. >> you know, we did have that kumbaya, there was bipartisan support for the move that was made against that syrian airfield. so are we at a potentially the
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beginning of a little bit of a turning point here? >> weshlgs listell, listen, eve agree with the notion that we need regime change in syria, which frankly i do, it has to be part of a comprehensive strategy. what we had this week was a military action that didn't achieve a military objective. the airfield was rebuilt in a day. what we need is a comprehensive strategy. the last thing this country needs is another republican president that undertakes adventurism in the middle east without a comprehensive strategy. >> are we not turning a corner, is that what you're saying? >> listen, i look forward to hearing from the president of the administration about a more comprehensive strategy. what we've had so far is a missile strike which the president says was brought on by his sympathy for the victims of the assad regime. at the same time, the president is shutting the door on those same refugees that are being affected by the assad regime.
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that is not part of a comprehensive strategy. those are conflicting interests that the president is ving >> noel, i think what you're seaing sea i seeing is that establishment republicans who have been very critical of their own president here,ea seeing is that establishment republicans who have been very critical of their own president here,a seeing is that establishment republicans who have been very critical of their own president here, seeing is that establishment republicans who have been very critical of their own president here, they said that was a good move. so if anything, are you see something sort of consolidation, an openness if you will to this president and his unpredictabili unpredictability, in this case they are liking his current tact? >> absolutely. i think we're seeing for once and we really needed it a little bit of unity within our own party. and i want to bring up something that my opposition brought up which was the strategy. you know what, i used to work for rudy giuliani and one thing he used to say was the fact that sometimes we don't need to let
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the entire world know our strategy. i really think some things need to be kept in the dark just a little bit. i don't really think that he needs to let the whole world know that we'll do this at this time or this at this time. i really think some of the details of a strategy, and i'm sure donald trump did have some sort of strategy, i don't think he woke up and decided let's just do this. >> that's what he's saying is why he does things the way he does. this idea of kt mcfarland, the news today stepping away from the national security council, we also have steve bannon also being removed. is this better for the country? >> it depends on who they are replaced with. >> all things being equal. >> all things being equal, here's the thing. we're confusing decisiveness with impulsiveness. and that's what we've gotten from the trump administration,
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imbu impulsive decisions. whether this staffing or regime change attitudes. those are things to have a comprehensive strategy that we can share with congress and the american people and we don't need to get into military tactics, but at least have a decision that you can share on whether you want regime change or not. we don't know. >> 15 seconds to you, noel. good or bad bannon and mcfarland, that development? >> i think some people will say that the chag othe guard so to speak is a good thing. and let's face it, a lot of people didn't like bannon, so maybe this will help if gl son circles to get things done. >> lmg answerialmost answering question, was it the best week for president obama. thank you both. and you ever thave the best day week. that does it for us. i'm richard lui. stay right here. news updates throughout the hour and any breaking news right here right now though, stick around,
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