president trump announcing precision strikes tonight on syria's chemical weapons capabilities. back with me now major general james spider marks and colonel lateen. . the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said they identified target to mitigate the risk of russian forces being involved. how difficult would it have been to avoid hitting any russian on iranian personnel. >> well it would be very difficult. the russians insin eighted themselves into every military installation in syria. they are closely allied and aligned with the syrians. you find advisers down to the battalion level in most units. i know that general doneford said we didn't provide any other information over the deconflicten line but the russians new this was coming and they moved personnel around to make sure they weren't in harm's