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Whom expressed considerable significant support for president trump, his administration and their ability but he can change the dynamic in the middle east. all of them saying pretty strong statements. one wonders whether there is an arab component to this. as you move forward into the next strategic step after the 60 or 50 plus tomahawk cruise missiles landed this evening. >> shep: is in their competent night, it appears intended to send the message to north korea, iran, and other potential adve...

Interventionalists? after all, this was an attack on syria, but it wasnt troops going in. it was very discreetly an attack on one airbase with missiles. a missile strike that was very carefully choreographed. we informed the russians ahead of time, not a lot of time, but they got information ahead of time so that they could prepare for this. get out of harms way essentially. presumably, the russians passed that word along to the syrians. it was interesting earlier in the broadcast, dennis ross s...

And and minimal casualties. this wasnt warmongering. >> and to strike american military, and the cyberattack. they have to do something, but they have to be thinking i we next, we dont know what were dealing with. >> the final thing on the list is the attack on us personnel. what is their threat? >> isis will exploit this because there airbase was to keep all opposition forces including isis and other terrorists fighting assad, my main concern is the irani and

Slowly through the air, not as quickly as you might expect. this one airbase airfield, fueling points, we mention that some chemical weapons, agents we believe are stored at this airbase. this one airbase took 50 tomahawk missiles, thats 50,00n this one case. it is very clear on the decision tonight to just strike this one base but this is designed to send a warning to the bashar al-assad regime. not to use his air force to kill his own people or to risk losing that air force. this is a limited ...

Surface-to-air missile programs. thats a concern. we need to make sure that our allies, even the roughly 1,000 americans that are inside syria, that are working right now, u.s. military personnel, we need to make sure that they are protected. its also obviously going to be a threat for israel and for others in the region. right now, diplomacy is key, rex tillerson needs to be leading an aggressive diplomatic effort, and i think thats what hes indicated he wants to. >> he will be down in moscow a...

Called unit 450 and is led by this man. three years ago, he was put on the u.s. treasury sanctions list, but so far, he has not been brought to justice. defense officials told us 60 tomahawk missiles relaunch last night. we now know one of those tomahawks failed and likely fell into the sea, about 20 syrian aircraft were destroyed at the airbase. none of the syrian air jets managed to take off an escape before the missiles hit the target. were told there were no russian aircraft at the syrian ai...

United states. i think donald trump has established a red line tonight. now, what we still dont know is what is the presidents strategy in syria? what will happen if the assad regime again uses chemical weapons against civilian population? will there be a further escalation in american resolve and in american response? what we dont know, were there iranian revolutionary guards on the base that were killed tonight? what we dt know and i think will be debated in the congress in the days ahead, wha...

For a long time, you see what happens when bad actors around the world do things but have you seen anything this quick? it happened tuesday, the gas attack was tuesday. thursday night, 48 hours we hit bombs on the airbase. >> ordinarily we would go to the united nations, extensive consultations, talking to congress, the bad guys would move the weapons out of the area. the swiftness of that action sends a signal to rope states, iran and north korea. >> the targeted nature of it, you let the russi...

Would know the attack was coming, we would be injuring or killing many people, there are two reports, two soldiers were killed, four soldiers were killed. >> donald trump last night in addition to the fact that we called russia and said in 30 minutes we are going to start bombing, the president also turned to his dinner companion last night, the president of china and said we are going to take out that airbase where those planes came from. china in the past has gone ahead and backed rusher in th...

Doing this? >> live in new york city, good morning to you. lets start by talking about the target. the target we know was the airbase where the jets took off from with the boys gas and landed as well but the syrians are not the only ones using that airbase. >> i understand why people are uncomfortable getting involved in a jpmorgan like the worlds police, while the getting involved? that same airbase used to launch the chemical attack has for a long time been linked to activity by the irani and ...