PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW DEALING
WITH IT.
SIX TIMES SINCE 2017 RUSSIA
HAS BLOCKED AN EFFORT TO
HOLD SYRIA ACCOUNTABLE.
ABBY: THIS IS BREAKING NOW A
STATEMENT COMING IN FROM
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA.
HE SAID RUSSIA CONDEMNS IN
THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS
THE ATTACK AGAINST SYRIA
WHERE RUSSIAN MILITARY
PERSONNEL ARE ASSISTING THE
LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT IN ITS
COUNTER TERRORISM EFFORT
THROUGH ITS ACTIONS THE U.S.
MAKES THE ALREADY
CATASTROPHIC HUMANITARIAN
SITUATION IN SYRIA EVEN
WORSE AND BRINGS SUFFERING
TO CIVILIANS.
IN FACT, THE U.S. PANDERS TO
THE TERRORISTS.
SO THAT'S A PRETTY STRONG
STATEMENT THERE FROM
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
OBVIOUSLY VERY UPSET ABOUT
THE AIRSTRIKES THAT HAPPENED
OVERNIGHT.
WILL THEY RESPOND
MILITARILY.
HOW MUCH WILL THEY FLEX
THOSE MUSCLES?
THAT IS A BIG QUESTION.
HOW THE U.S. RESPONDS FROM
THERE.
PETE: LET'S BRING IN
DR. SEBASTIAN GORKA FORMER
DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
YOU JUST HEARD THAT
STATEMENT FROM VLADIMIR
PUTIN.
HE DIDN'T CONDEMN IN THE
STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS OF
THE GASSING OF PEOPLE BUT,
INSTEAD, CONDEMNS US, WHAT
DO YOU MAKE OF THAT.
ABBY: AND SAYS WE ARE ONLY
PROMOTING VIOLENCE.
>> WHEN A FORMER KBG COLONEL
CONDEMNS OUR ACTIONS, YOU
KNOW WE TOOK THE RIGHT
ACTIONS.
HE IS A THUG.
THAT'S WHO HE IS.
THIS IS THE SAME GOVERNMENT
THAT YESTERDAY, AND THIS IS
NOT A JOKE, LOOK IT UP ON
YOUR SEARCH ENGINES.
THIS IS THE SAME GOVERNMENT
WHOSE DEFENSE MINISTRY
SPOKESMAN YESTERDAY SAID IT
WAS THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
THAT EXECUTED THE CHEMICAL
WEAPONS ATTACK IN DOUMA LAST
WEEK.
THE RUSSIANS COULDN'T
CARELESS ABOUT -- DON'T MAKE
ME LAUGH.
HUMANITARIAN EXIGENCIES.
THIS IS A REGIME THAT HAS
PROPPED UP ASSAD A MASS
MURDERER HE IS.
THIS IS REGIME THAT INVADED
AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY
UKRAINE NOT TOO LONG AGO.
THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT
SUPPORTS BAD GUYS
EVERYWHERE.
SO IF THEY'RE CLAMORING AND
MAKING A LOT OF NOISE.
YOU KNOW DONALD TRUMP TOOK
THE RIGHT DECISION LAST
NIGHT.
ABBY: DR. GORKA, THAT
STATEMENT IS A PERFECT
EXAMPLE OF WHAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP IS DEALING WITH WHEN
IT COMES TO VLADIMIR PUTIN
AND WITH RUSSIA HOW THEY
CONTINUE TO LIE THROUGH
THEIR TEETH.
HOW DOES THE PRESIDENT MOVE
FORWARD HERE?
HOW DOES HE DEAL WITH RUSSIA
SPECIFICALLY OTHER THAN
CALLING THEM OUT LAST NIGHT?
>> EVERYTHING THAT -- SO THE
PRESIDENT IS THE PATRIOT.
HE IS THE NEW
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
IS HE A PRAGMATIST HE SAID
IT THE WEEK HE BECAME
PRESIDENT OR WON THE
ELECTION, HE GAVE A PRESS
CONFERENCE IN TRUMP TOWER
WHERE HE SAID IN THEORY, I
WOULD LIKE US TO HAVE BETTER
RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.
WHY?
IT'S A NUCLEAR POWER.
IT'S GOT 11 TIME.
IT'S ON THE U.N. NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL.
IT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE
DECENT RELATIONSHIPS WITH