and frankly since kevin lost that he kept his head down he's done the hard work of the house campaign for his colleagues i think kevin's position to take the top spot the president speaks highly of each of them we'll see what this president does if you tries to tilt the skill but what we know is whoever the next leader of the g.o.p. is on the house will have the thumbprint of donald trump on them because it will only happen with his support so he is the republican party he is the republican party and and with the departure of paul ryan we are losing part of these last vestiges of what we used to think of the republican party the deficit cutting tax cutting regulation cutting free trade party all that's been thrown out the window there are some healthy criticisms of paul ryan right now today that when he had the opportunity to push that agenda he couldn't get out front of donald trump and the president's philosophies and frankly this party now has become the party of donald trump congressional democrats are pushing consume immediate action legislation to

protect. the g.o.p. is warning the president not to act against moeller as well do you think he's going to fire them all or. i think he will i think every indication is that he's going to fire a mole or i think the president takes this as a personal affront and we have seen what happens when he feels as though he's being personally attacked he attacks back i don't think the president pays too much mind a constitutional parameters of the office that he holds and at the end of the day i think he has to bring this investigation to a close before democrats possibly take control the house because the democrats likely won't run on impeachment if democrats take control the house and this investigation is ongoing or there is a damning report of the president's behavior i do believe first of the year they'll begin to have hearings at least asking questions about what presidential behavior is rise to the level of an impeachable offense frankly the standards set during bill clinton administration suggest that's

a pretty low bar the republicans were able to impeach bill clinton on civil perjury and the likelihood is we might already see donald trump as has committed that based on some of the current legal actions we have just rosenstein forced. yes so this is interesting the way muller gets gets ultimately terminated is rosenstein has to go so the president states could dismiss rosenstein have been replaced with a loyalist that would agree to fire miller or shake up something between sessions and rosenstein to make that happen at the end of the day the president cannot directly fire moeller but he can fire the person who has that authority and replace that person with somebody who will in fact terminate bob mueller the f.b.i. raid on the president's lawyer michael cohen do you think that is the end of attorney client privilege or do you go previous guest who says the court signed off on the war in the war was legal. that's right that's the justice system working and

this would not have been a warrant signed off on lightly this clearly went to the very top of our department of justice for the f.b.i. to even seek that warrant what we know happened as a result of this is there is there there is suspected criminal activity that was engaged in between cohn and one of his clients and we presume with with good information that that client as donald trump this is a very rare act to raid an attorney's office and take what would otherwise be considered privilege files but the reality is if there was some advancement of a fraud or a crime between conan the president that privilege does not exist so attorney client privilege still exists today but it may not apply in the case of tromping cohen because they violated the law in the process of their communications david as always thanks for your time today great to be with you thank you larry against a backdrop of national security shake ups and multiple investigations the president

faces dangerous decisions about syria including an expected response to a recent deadly chemical attack in a town held by rebels for a little perspective on all this let's turn to former deputy assistant secretary of state joel rubin he joins me from washington he's president of the washington strategy strategy group the national security advisory and lobby for what options does the president have for responding to this attack. larry has no good options first and foremost the president is really in a box in some ways of his own making because he did talk about red lines in syria related to chemical weapons and that the u.s. would forcefully respond so now he in many ways has to respond to his own red line outside of that however the problem is that the united states currently doesn't have a clear vision of where we want to go in syria and what we want the end state to be

so it makes this kind of a decision incredibly difficult because it's not clear what this will actually achieve in the long run in early morning tweet wednesday trump said russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming nice and smart what do you make of that is that helpful. the last thing the united states needs is to have a hot war conflict with russia that is not something that any national security leader once there certainly tensions between the united states and russia but we don't need to be in gauging in if we are going to engage in a military action in syria it has to be clear it has to be focused it has to be a reason for it it has to create deterrence against future chemical attacks if this is the justification but a war with russia a military action that leads to nowhere good and we need to really pull back from that kind of rhetoric the russian soldiers in syria is that back to the question

we're trying to do those. russian soldiers. and well larry this is the problem with syria right now there are so many different groups in gauge the military action there are remnants of al qaeda there is the islamic state there's hizbollah there's the islamic revolutionary guard corps from iran the assad regime you name it the kurds the americans we have troops there as well any bombing raid runs the risk of ancillary casualties and casualties that were not intended such as iranians such as russians and and that's why it's so complicated and that's why it's so important that we don't just conduct a bombing strike willy nilly in a sense to use the technical term we really need to be engaged with our allies and partners there to stop this kind of chemical attack and if we're going to raid militarily through airstrikes we need to make it clear to all those adversaries

russia and iran in this case that we're not aiming for them because if we do hit them that could lead to further escalation of the president's talked to the prime minister of england the president of france does he need congressional approval for military response you've really put your finger on the button with this question already there are bipartisan voices in the senate and in the house. calling for military authorization there currently is no american military authorization in syria the only authorization is for fighting the islamic state not for attacking assad and this is what caught president obama about five years ago in fits because he wanted to initially bomb syria but then realized he needed to go to congress for authorization and congress didn't want to authorize it so president trump if he goes forward with strikes will be doing so without authorization and that could create a major crisis with congress because congress is going to ask the hard questions of the defense department the state department when they come and testify what's the

authorization what's the end game what's the plan and they're not going to have very strong answers trumbo said he would never tip his hand yet he announced that the u.s. move would be leaving syria john mccain said that that american in action bold . to do what he does do you agree. well i certainly agree with the idea that one should not tip their hand too early but if they're going to say what they want to do militarily or in a country with in terms of our policy and in this case what president trump wants to do in syria he needs to make a clear statement it can't just be a single one off line it's time to go in this case is what he said and leave that he needs to lay out a very clear policy for the american people we have american soldiers on the ground right now they're american troops and they deserve to be told by their commander in chief what he has them fighting for and why they're there and why their lives are at risk and the president has failed to do that he has not yet explained to the

american people why our troops are there and what his vision is for syria he could then telegraph his policy if he explains that but he should really refrain from just making statements offhand and not putting them into a clear policy context obama drew a line in the sand you're saying he didn't bomb because congress wasn't going to approve. but the republicans blame him for not bombing yes it's a perfect political catch twenty two for president obama it certainly was at a time where he did not get congressional authorization because he was going to congress and realized he wouldn't get it and if we remember back then just days prior to the decision to go to congress the british parliament voted down bombing as well and so there really was here as well as in britain a lack of public support for american military intervention so it's simple for the republicans to blame president obama for not bombing but he didn't have the

authorization and they were rushing to give it to him they had control of congress they didn't put any authorization bills on the floor really there where we are right now is a situation where the american people will be asking the question why are we bombing in syria what are the objectives what are our troops there for and who are we bombing on behalf of these are legitimate questions and congress needs to be weighing in on them jones always thanks so much feel perspective thank you sir good to talk to you larry thank you our viewers for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things don't forget use the politics. and that's all for this edition of politicking.

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between. us politicians and the politicians get on with. their friday the thirteenth of april and it's two pm here in moscow my name's colleen bright welcome to the news this hour from the first that story we broke for you last hour russia's foreign minister says moscow has solid evidence that the alleged chemical attack in dubai and syria was staged hospital is the problem with any traces of the use of food chloride the only now that chemical weapons. in fact we have evidence is that this was a full flat false flag operation to be a had by.