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Action of an -- because of the horror of chemical weapons that were up to play. joining is now at 2:30 a.m. in mar-a-lago at the trump camp matt compound is fox news correspondent kristian fisher who has been covering the president response and the meetings theyre all through the evening. >> for a president who said his number one theme a number one priority is america first, it was very noteworthy that tonight when he stepped into the microphone and the very first thing that came out of his mou...

>> it seems that the administration was very careful in its planning, specifically targeting parts of the airbase where the russians were not. >> this was intentionally limited and pointed to an exact target to send a signal, not try to escalate. >> the u.s. security council will have an emergency session, of course will we will be deno. the russian ambassador will talk, watch out for nikki haley, our u.s. ambassador. stay with us here on the fox news channel. "fox & friends" first coming up nex...

State department, live from capitol hill where a reaction is pouring in. >> we begin with conor powell. conor, you have been right in the action, what is the latest? >> good morning, the pentagon saying they targeted with these tomahawk missiles, they targeted the base where the aircraft that launched this week, chemical weapons departed and return to. its a prominent and large syrian airbase, also used by russian soldiers and troops and has both syrian and russian jets from what we are understa...

In the united states, for the most part everybody i have heard on capitol hill has been supportive. rand paul said the president needs authorization from congress but marco rubio said this about what happened last night. >> they are using chemical weapons dropping from airplanes and that is the airfield they are flying those attacks from, they conducted flying bomb attacks in the airfield and sarah and attacks on the airfield so the objective of this mission was not to kill russians but destroy ...

>> as the shayrat airbase lay in ruins, condemning the missile strike and calling them reckless and irresponsible. arguing that the u.s. move undermines the fight against terrorists and put the u.s. on the side of isis. >> the airbase that was attacked by the u.s. has been fighting against terrorism command his soldiers and officers of the army has been fighting against daesh. >> the idea that the u.s. now supports terrorists was echoed by the region, saying, not even two decades after nine mike...

Missiles being dropped on a very small scary area -- a 60,000 pounds of munitions being dropped in just one spot. while it was a limited and targeted strike, he made a huge impact. initial reports that the airbase is almost completely destroyed. tonight, the secretary of state said that this shows that president trump is willing to act and willing to act decisively when government and other bad actors crossed the line. perhaps, a reference to what his predecessor, president barack obama, would n...

A terror target. that airbase was used by the iranian revolutionary guards corps of the iranian regime to sponsor terrorism. hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization also operated out of there. we didnt just strike the air base that was used to carry out the chemical weapons attack on civilians, a terror target was struck. >> russia reacting today saying were going to stop d conflicting in the air zone over syria. a swat back at the u.s. how do we handle russia as this unfolds? >> ...

First, from the latest from the pentagon. and whats the damage assessment from the air strike. >> reporter: they dont have a formal damage assessment in yet. were waiting to hear that. were hearing what is targeted. aircraft were targeted. and aircraft tied to the regime. hangars, taxiway. they wanted to make the airfield no longer operational with the strikes. 59 tomahawk missiles coming down on to this airbase. they did it at a time of day that would minimize the casualties. there are russian ...

Influence the assad regime and say things like that, they try to do in 2013. its just not credible and the pictures do not like im of the facts do not lie, the intelligence do not lie. its going to be on them. >> murray heart, thanks. its nice to see you tonight murray heart. jennifer griffin how do they talk about how they practice for this? >> we just learned from a pentagon spokesman described to us how the sailors on board the uss porter and uss ross prepared for two days prior to the launch...

>> not likely we are going to hear from president trump or president xi today, but if this goes according to the way many of these go, it is likely we will get a communication from both countries and then theres good potential we will have background briefing later to tell us what went on during these bilateral meetings. >> shannon: we will count on you to keep us updated. john roberts, thank you. >> bill: let us give our viewers an area of what we were talking about, tricky to the north on the ...