senator john mccain tweeted after the strike, i applaud the president for taking military action against the assad regime and i'm grateful to our british and french allies to joining us in the action. need along run we comprehensive strategy for syria and the entire region.. nelson said he supports the attack because assad must be held accountable or the use of chemical weapons. we also have the statement by the russian ambassador on the strikes. he said a predesigned scenario is being implemented. we are being threatened, we wore in action will not be left without consequences. farage, aeet by nigel supporter president trump, who says i said it before and i will say it again, our track record of intervening in syria and the middle east is terrible. the u.k. was one ally joining the strike yesterday. calling from maryland on the independent line, what are your thoughts? never: i do not like war, have never will. there are times we have to get involved in conflicts like this. i remember several years ago we drew a supposedly red line in the sand, which led us to where we are today. i thin

is in the very difficult situation and he has been even criticized in his own party senator john mccain tweeted for example that he thinks that the president's announcement to pull out of syria has emboldened the us at regime so on the one hand the u.s. is saying that it's going to find out who was responsible on the other we heard from the russian foreign minister. verse far as the russians are concerned concerned there was no chemical attack meets the u.n. security council meeting later what are things like you to come out of that. well the united states friends and britain and others has called for this emergency meeting to demand immediate access for first responders through this area to support an independent investigation into what happened and to hold accountable those responsible for what happened in syria but russia also attempted to schedule and never a rival meeting because they argue that what happened in syria should be discussed as an issue of terrorism and threats to international security in a clear attempt to protect the syrian government and to deflect international condemnati

john mccain tweeted this out today --. >>> joining me is shamichael, let me start with you.no one should believe we are out of options. we can and should change course starting with a comprehensive strategy that lays on the clear objectives. it's not too late to stop assad's impunity and bebin to rewrite this terrible chapters in our history. it seemed days ago the president was it content to close the books on this conflict. how should he change the question? >> well, look, david, i think you had a previous guest that stated we have maximized the level of sanctions against syria. as we saw, the president did have a military strike against syria several months ago, and that didn't really do much of anything. here we are yet again discussing the same thing. what i think was vague about senator mccain's statement is, is he suggesting that the president should consider putting troops on the ground? is she suggesting perhaps we should see some type of regime change? if that is what he's suggesting, i'm not certain that the american people are ready to take that type of military

. >> john mccain tweeted they need to lay out goals in syria and he praised this move. do you believe -- are you confident that there's a solid plan moving forward? >> i admire and respect john mccain. the reality about this is, no. we have no plan. there may well be no plan for a comprehensive solution unless the iranians and the russians are prepared to fundamentally alter their views of what the end game here is. i think, clearly, these attacks sent a clear message. this president, like the last one, has no intention of getting stuck with a check for syria and the billions of dollars that will be required and the deployment of peacekeepers and leading role for years to come in order to repair the syrian state. >> aaron david miller, always good to get your perspective. >>> we're seeing other details around the u.s. and ally strikes in syria as we get closer to an update from the pentagon and monitor a u.n. security council meeting that woof just learned will take place at 11:00 this morning. >> stay with us. after a short break, we'll take you live back to syria. pat

so do you agree, then, with senator john mccain who tweeted, "potus pledged to withdraw from syria has only emboldened assad, backed by russia and iran to commit more war crimes in douma." potus responded after last year's chemical attack he should do so again and make assad pay the price for his brutality." >> the problem, of course, is the attack last year had virtually no effect. less than 24 hours after the attack struck an airfield in syria, syria planes took off on that very same airfield to bomb the very same place that they had attacked the day before. it was a feel-good moment, but it had no effect whatsoever on the balance of power or on the conflict that's continuing there. >> do you believe that congress would respond to president trump galvanizing some kind of alliance, you know, to face down this wickedness? >> yes. i think that's what the united states should do. this cannot be an america-led war. the american people don't support that, and we live in a democratic society. at the same time, there is worldwide revulsion at the assad regime, and at the actions of russia an

i was having a look at some of the reports coming in and i think john mccain was tweeting and releasedsupport of president trump's actions. is that the kind of thing that has been happening in washington? i think at the moment many feel that what has been done has been measured. that is the important thing from their point of view. saying that, there are democrats who feel that if there was to be wider military action or a greater focus on what happens in syria, there needs to be a greater strategy. from the administration's point of view they have the idea, they like this whole idea of working alongside the uk and france and coming up with a joint strategy to address some of these issues. the problems had not gone away. if you listen carefully to what the administration have been saying, they have been talking about the fact that they have degraded the chemical weapons programme in syria. they have not got rid of the threat of chemical weapons. that is something they accept. they are still looking for evidence outside of syria. to say they have evidence of some of that indicates, acco

. >>> senator john mccain is out of the hospital after having surgery. his wife cindy tweetedenator john mccain and you are home in our beloved hidden valley, enjoying a glorious arizona sunset. he received treatment for brain cancer. earlier in the day, his daughter told her co-hosts on the view that her father is doing well and she may take days off from the show to spend time with him. >>> well, father and son are you can willy to be alive today after their pennsylvania home collapsed in a possible gas explosion. the father said that he was in the bathroom, his son was playing video games when they hearder the sound of an explosion. both managed to get out to find the hole front of the house blown off. fortunately the father suffered only minor jishs and his son was not injured. officials are working to confirm what caused the blast. sometimes you just need a fajita, but a texas man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for stealing $1.2 million worth of fajita meat over the course of nine years. he admitted that while an employee at the juvenile court center, he made re

john mccain's daughter also tweeting my father is in stable condition.continues to inspire me every day with his intense grit and determination. thank you to the doctors at mayor clinic in phoenix and to everyone who is praying for him. >>> house majority whip steve scalise underwent a procedure that will keep him out of the capitol the next few days. he's started a series of planned inpatient procedures part of an ongoing recovery after a shooting after a congressional baseball practice last june. he has had several surgeries since that time. according to the washington hospital center the congressman is in excellent spirits and is eager to return to work as soon as possible. >>> missouri's top republicans clashed in court yesterday as lawyers demanded that the state's attorney general drop his investigation into a veterans charity founded by the governor. the leading gop candidate for u.s. senate called on his fellow republican to resign over a blackmail and abuse allegations connected to an affair. he has denied doing anything illegal and says he will

he is in under pressure now from republicans in congress, john mccain, john cornyn from texas just tweetedonse to what happened there. the israelis are putting pressure on him, his own pentagon is going to put pressure on the president to respond. so the big question is does he respond aggressively and do a wide scale attack on syria or something more precise like he did last time when we had a similar incident. the other question is does he do it alone or wait and try to work with the french and work with great britain to try to get a coalition to have a response to syria? i think we'll know in the next couple of days which way the president wants to go because deep in his heart he just wants out of there. he does not want anything to do with syria. he fought his own pentagon last week on his own impulse to get out, get the troops out right away. >> yeah, not to mention that john bolten's first day on the job will be today. he'll be tested as well. >> absolutely. you spoke with richard haass is sitting here waiting to join the show. >> hey, richard. >> talking about some of the options th

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that some kind of actions going to be taken but republican senator john mccain critical of the president's language contained in tweets arguing too that the president's statements about the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria in recent weeks has emboldened the syrian government also another republican senator lindsey graham arguing that the language used by president trump effectively leaves him with no option present trump can reset the table here to me i would destroy a city or force our create safe zones in syria where people can come back to their country from surrounding area and live a better life train up syrians to take on assad so we can negotiate in geneva from a position of strength if it becomes a twee without meaning then he's hurt himself in north korea if he doesn't follow through and live up to that he's going to look weak in the of a russia and iran so this is defining moment mr president you need to follow through that tweet show resolve that obama never did to get this right and a lot of movements at the united nations the u.s. france and other western allies have called for an urgent meeting of th

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tweeted today... republican senator john mccain is saying this. a former state department senior advisor in the trump and george w. bush administration and a senior fellow at the center for national interest. what is our foreign policy for syria? >> the foreign policy is to kill isis and we just about done that which is why president trump was just about to reposition our forces to places where they are more necessary, we have additional objectives, which is why the president has directed action against the syrian regime earlier and hit's administration. >> harris: you heard the president say this is about humanity. is that part of our foreign policy? you got chlorine gas and other things that assad is unleashing on his people. >> that is an issue and this is of course a terrible tragedy, disgusting conduct. amid a civil war with 400,000 people killed that's gone on for seven years now, it's important and this is something the president has to way. other competing threats, there are a lot of dictators and a lot of bad guys in the world and we have

we've got a tweet again from john mccain. this is what lindsey graham had to say. >> listen, defining moment in his presidency because he challenged assad in the past not to use chemical weapons. we had a one and done missile attack. so assad is at it again. they see us, resolve breaking. see our determination to stay in syria waning and this is no accident they used chemical weapons. defining moment, mr. trump. you need to follow through with that tweet. show resolve that obama never did to get this right. >> following up on that, susan, the president again tweeting and he said this many times. criticism of president obama and the way he has handled things in this part of the world. is lindsey graham right? could this be a defining moment in foreign policy for this president? >> not an important moment in terms of midterm politics. that was our experience that we saw of course with president obama on this very same issue. but it is an important moment i think in terms of foreign policy leadership around the world and we may

. >>> we are back with a look at your morns's headlines and senator john mccain is out of the hospital, his wife tweeting in our beloved hidden valley inn enjoying a glorious arizona sunset. he had been recovering from a surgery for intestinal infection and has been battling a deadly form of brain kanser. >>> right now in pennsylvania, closing arguments in the bill cosby retrial. here is he walking in court this morning. he will not be taking the stand today same as last year's trial. the defense he rested hits case monday. he was accused of sexually molesting andrea constand in his home in 2004. he's charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault and if convicted could face up to ten years if prison for each count. he has repeatedly denied the allegations and said the ebb counteder was consensual. the jury is set to deliberate once closing arguments are wrapped up. >>> right now a toronto canadian media is reporting the suspect of that deadly van attack is in courted. earlier investigators were seen carrying pink evidence bags away from the crash scene. that's where ten people were killed, ano

calling this a defining moment for this administration and take a look at what senator john mccain has said. he is tweeting, the president's pledge to withdraw from syria has only emboldened assad and he should respond again. the president should respond again and make assad pay a price for his brutality, amy. >> cecilia, we just heard from martha raddatz that president trump will be meeting with his top military advisers today. what can we expect? >> reporter: well, as martha said, this is a previously scheduled meeting but certainly syria is going to be at the top of the agenda. it happens here at the white house this evening and we can tell you there will be cameras at least at this point we expect inside for some of that meeting. today is national security adviser john bolton's first day on the job and as you guys know he has been a known hawk, someone who has advocated for air strikes against syria in the past. amy. >> all right. we know you'll keep us updated. thanks so much. michael. >> thank you, amy. >>> now to more snow in april. two weeks into spring and winter is still sticking around causing a

i tweeted out today that the voice of john mccain sort of alive and well in that speak in terms of rejecting isolationism, leading from the front, not from behind. the countries like france and the united states shape history and we're looking -- people will be overwhelmed by globalization was music to my ears for the french president to say that we're global leaders, proud of it, we're not going to create vacuums throughout the world. north korea, i think he gave a lot of credit to president trump and he deserves a lot of credit for getting north korea to the table on the iran deal. i'm glad he's understanding it's not a good deal. let me tell you how bad it is. the arabs wants nuclear power. i'm okay with iranians having a nuclear power plant. i'm know okay them making the fuel. they can turn the fuel to a bomb. this deal allows them to enrich and reprocess. we're telling our arab allies to not enrich and reprocess because we don't want to proliferate nuclear materials. i'm trying to communicate to the french -- >> shepard: we know his stance on this. he had been speaking on this dr. jacks

. >>> and arizona senator john mccain is in stable condition today after surgery to treat an intestinal infection. his wife and daughter tweeting doing well. mccain is recovering from side effects of brain cancer treatment. he went public with his cancer diagnosis last summer. his office has not said when or if he plans to return to washington. >>> all right. it is time for cnn money now. yesterday on "new day" counselor to the president kellyanne conway and i got into a discussion about the ballooning deficit. take a listen. >> you need to offset -- >> capital investment. >> that big, fat deficit we have because of the tax cut and all the other spending. >> what was the deficit when donald trump got here? give me a break. that that just exploded. >> you know that. you know it's a problem with -- >> i'm sorry you disagree with the $4 million for the school safety. >> it's not about cherry picking things. the overall fiscal landscape. >> we think we need to fund the military. >> your party was always about cutting the deficit and now you're ballooning it. >> all right. so who was right? the fact is the u.s. is facing trillion do

. >> ferguson: republican senator john mccain warned against pulling out the roughly 2000 u.s. troops, based largely in syria's northeast. he tweetede president's "pledge to withdraw from syria has only emboldened assad, backed by russia and iran, to commit more war crimes in douma." at a u.n. security council meeting this afterno, syria's representative denied any complicity. nikki haley sharply condemned the attack, and the regime. >> who does this? okly a monster des this. we must not overussia and iran's roles in enabling the assad regime's murderous destruction. >> ferguson: but the u.n. human rights chief had tough words, blasting world powers for their, "collective shg" in the face the syrian regime's brutality. for the pbs newshour, i'm jane rguson, in beirut >> brangham: i spoke with jane ferguson a short time ago. jane, president trump today strongly suggesting that he is going to militarily strike syria for tis latest chemical weapons attack. how are those threats being heard where you are? >> in the region, william, nobody's really respondingde nitively yet to those words from president trump and that's largely because

have you john mccain coming out and talking about how perhaps that has emboldened assad. that action as the senator tweeted over the weekend is what embolded assad and russia to commit war crimes here. jenna, how do you see that? >> the president has made no secret that he doesn't want to be involved in syria. he's called assad a bad guy, you he has made clear over and over again this is a problem that he wants to just leave to russia. someone else should deal with it other than him. a year ago he saw images quite similar to the ones we're seeing this week of children suffering. >> yeah. >> and according to people close to him, that moved him to take action. it was one strike, it sent a clear message at that one moment. and then the president went back to just not wanting to get involved in syria, not wanting to confront assad. and that's where we're at again today. >> right. >> where you have more reports of chemical attacks and a president who just doesn't want to get dragged in there. >> so we know that the president is hearing from his national security council principals on this. we know that he's hea

john mccain is in stable condition tonight after an unplanned surgery. his office said he was admitted to the mayo clinic in phoenix yesterday and underwent surgery. his daughter meghan tweeted he's in stable condition, doing well. senator mccain, as you know, has been battling brain cancer since last july. >>> former first lady barbara bush is surrounded by family tonight. the 92-year-old decided over the weekend to end treatment for congestive heart failure. a spokesperson for the family says she is now focusing on comfort care. bush and her husband, former president h.w. bush have been married for 72 years. >>> the sign on the door reads "enter at your own risk" but that didn't scare buyers away, the condemned home in a bay area neighborhood that just sold for more than a million bucks. >>> starting to dry out after our rainfall today. temperatures dropping to 49 in san jose. we're tracking how cold tomorrow morning and a brand-new storm this week coming up in about seven minutes. >>> plus a big night. could you hear the sharks fan freaking out? >>> the warriors on their home turf. highlights of both games coming up in sports. you want to see it. a million do. that )s wha

. >>> john mccain is back home after a hospital stay. >> we learned this because cindy mccain tweetedbeloved hidden valley enjoying a glorious arizona sunset. he has been recovering from surgery from an intestinal infection but also battling a deadly form of brain cancer and has been getting treatment also there in arizona. >>> we turn now to the horrific attack that left ten people dead on the streets of toronto. >> a driver in a van jumped the curb onto a side walk filled with pedestrians enjoying a beautiful spring weather day. the suspect was eventually arrested after daring police to shoot him. maggie rulli has the latest. >> reporter: the man believed to be responsible for this horrific tragedy is now in custody. police say 25-year-old alek minassian was behind the wheel of this van, seeming to target people on this busy toronto street. >> he started hitting everything, man, anybody in his way. >> reporter: it was lunch time, just before 1:30 p.m. the van driving 16 blocks, nearly a mile and a half, ramming into people again and again. >> everyone started running and screaming,

.com. ( james ) arizona senator john mccain -- who is fighting brain cancer -- hugged his son- in-law and asked him to look after his daughter. that's according to a tweetleted. it was posted by ben domenech... who is married to meghan mccain. john mccain was hospitalized earlier this month... because of an intestinal infection. mccain has a brain tumor. he had brain surgery in july 2017... around the time he revealed his diagnosis. the chance of surviving two years with this aggressive type of cancer is about 30 percent. ( darya ) breaking news... all lanes of northbound highway 101 are blocked after an accident involving a big rig.( james ) kron 4's lydia pantazes is live at the scene with the details. lydia. ( lydia ) all lanes of highway 101 are closed near san antonio roadafter a semi-truck overturned. the crash happened around 1:40 a.m. it is blocking both lanes of traffic. there is no estimated time of reopening. there are no reports of any injuries. ( james ) thanks lydia. we will check back with you through out the morning. 3.3 quake in alamo ( darya ) still ahead still ahead on the kron 4 morning news... the daughter of one of the golden state

tweet, he's going to look weak in the eyes of russia and iran. so this is a defining moment. >> tara joins us live from the white house. tara, republican senator john mccain is being critical of president trump for those remarks where he said he would pull troops out of syria? >> reporter: that's right, he put out a scathing statement, saying assad was emboldened by american inaction when the president announced he'd be pulling troops out of syria. mccain questioned whether the president will follow through on his tweet and, quote, do anything about it. >> tara, thank you. >> now to new developments on the deadly fire in trump tower. a resident of the 50th floor did not survive the blaze. now, questions about whether a sprinkler system would have helped. fire investigators probe what caused the fatal fire. here's zachary kiesch. >> reporter: tonight, fire investigators looking for the cause of this deadly fire, 50 floors up. debris falling from the trump tower, home of the president's penthouse and the global headquarters of the trump organization. one resident warned to get out. >> michael cohen, trump's lawyer, texted me and said, are you in the buildin

senator john mccain back in arizona after undergoing surgery for an infection, while battling brain cancer. mccain's wife tweetingn their beloved hidden valley. >>> and giraffic jam. and a young giraffe escapes from her enclosure at an indiana zoo, making a dash for a nearby parking lot, before eventually being lured back home. today, tuesday, april 24th, 2018. >>> we move to syracuse university, where 18 students are face disciplinary charges and possible expulsion over that racist video that emerged online. and now, a second video has surfaced. nbc's morgan radford is following this story. morgan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. in the wake of the first video, the school expelled the theta tau fraternity. now, a second video, that is being released by "the daily orange" is plunging syracuse deeper into a crisis. and a warning, this video is difficult to watch. >> he's retarded and in a wheelchair. >> reporter: this morning, growing outrage over a second, shocking video in the syracuse university fraternity scandal. these members of the theta tau chapter seem to be simulating a sexual assault of a perso

john mccain saying the president needs to show resolve. both of them say the single strike approach that we saw the president take last year shows that it's not that effective, yasmin. >> ambassador, i have another tweet a from back in 2013. the said -- again to our very foolish leader, do not attack syria. if you do, many very bad things will happen. from that fight the u.s. gets nothing. what did the u.s. get out of the retaliatory attacked against syria. >> i think it is available to take it back to 2013. or congress, when he three it back in their lap, they said no thank you, we really don't want to get vote, and they worked trying to move chemical weapons out of the syria, with some success. >> and i think the point about not doing one strike against the syrians is well taken. we kind of what we talked about as a pin-rick he bombing, you're not effective whatsoever in dealing with the problem. i think the united states has defined this issue in syria, as a function of a fight with isis, and that for that reason the president has been talking about getting our troops out, but there's there's a civil war with much more regional implications. i think we need to get serious with the dip sis. >> and f

tweeted about it. well, we'll see now that he's only considering it if it's something the justice department looks at it. i remember this is something i think john mccain and harry reid, this is something they have actually been pushing for a few years now back when harry reid was in the senate. i'm going to be curious to see how it plays out. >> areva? >> i think the president hopefully will stop using the power of the tweet to send these messages to these potential witnesses. that's not how the justice system should work. witnesses should not be getting the smoke signals from the president via tweets. >> from someone who says he doesn't like telegraphing, he sure was like telegraphing. all right. kendall, jeremy, areva, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> all right. next democrats hit the trump campaign and russia with a lawsuit. why the dnc is alleging a grand conspiracy they say cheated the 2016 election. napoleon is duping us! all around louisiana... you're a nincompoop! (phone ping) gentlemen, i have just received word! the louisiana purchase, is complete! instant purchase notifications from capital one. so you won't miss a purcha

worked with john mccain in addition to a number of other gop candidates including but not limited to jeb bush, mitt romney. he happens to be a senior fellow at harvard university. so, mike, this tweetan just got in our heads and rattled around all week. when you put it this way, 147 gop-held house seats less republican. remind our viewers how many the democrats have to pick up to flip the house. >> well, depending because there can always be another special election or something between now and, you know, actual election day in november. and you never want to have it by one seat because then chicanery. but they get to the high 20s or 30, i think the current count is like 32, 33 seats. i haven't looked at it exactly, but let's put it this way. they are really, truly in striking distance. i mean we can declare victory that we won in arizona eight, but it's a point spread system kind of like football. what happened there was the equivalent of the new england patriots beating a good high school team by only one touchdown. so, yeah, we won. but the very fact the game was that close in such an unbalanced district, as you say, that has 150 more districts that are more republican in front

john mccain. he's been fighting brain cancer and now he's recovering from surgery to treat an intestinal infection at the mayo clinic in phoenix. his daughter meghan tweeted father is in stable condition. he continues to inspire me every day with an intense grit and determination. she thanked the doctors and everyone praying for him. paula. >>> now to that fallout growing from the arrest of two black men at that starbucks in philadelphia. it was caught on camera as you know. angry protesters briefly shutting down the store on monday and now the company says that store manager who called police is no longer working there. abc's linsey davis is on the scene and has more. good morning, linsey. >> reporter: good morning to you, robin. this location is back open for business this morning but that manager who called the police on the two black men who were sitting inside of the restaurant, well, she is out of a job this morning, but that has not stopped the protests. several groups have come to this starbucks location to march, sit in, stand up, speak out, you name it, in the wake of the viral video of the two black men escorted out of the starbucks in handcuff