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That. >> i understand. and president talked about how syria was the main issue that really, really haunted him and, again, this is a strike that has received praise from john mccains and lindsey graham on the other side of the spectrum to hillary clinton. let me play what she said when asked about syria. >> i really believe that we should have and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them. >> she said that b...

Might do and put our pilots and our navy personnel and our soldiers on the ground at risk. so i think thats incredibly important. and then we also didnt mother may i to the russians like we have the last 8 years. pete: colonel, a lot of people looking at this strike very targeted precision strike against one facility based on chemical use. >> right. pete: there is also speculation about the future of assad: could we have taken out all of his air assets and airfields? whats the tipping point to w...

Also consistent with his decisive action youre right on the tweet, bret baier, special report, thank you. john roberts just got of the briefing with secretary of state to listen and the national security, with the latest there? >> im going through my notes, first of all hr mcmaster the national security advisor said that this was aimed at bashar al-assads capacity to commit murder with chemical weapons. this was taken in the middle the night and the targeting to minimize casualties particularly ...

In this. hillary clinton was saying they have contingency plan for taking out the major airfields in sy a syria. there are about six of them and they hit just one. this is donald trump who always builds the tallest building, always does the big thing doing something small its kind of one-tenth of what bill clinton did in 1998. >> but youre saying they have contingency plans if they need to attack the other five? >> the contingency plan. its a menu, the president can select and do this. he didnt ...

How we should respond to the as s sad use of chemical weapons. she responded exactly with the action of donald trump. >> i really believe that we should have and still should take out his airfields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop saran gas on them. >> very interesting. again, president trump could have taken a cue from her from listening to how forceful she was and the crowd seemed to appreciate that. >> absolutely. one of the under lying problems her...

Out. if the syrian military launch is another one of these attacks on the people, did the united states strike again? or is there a plan? >> certainly we would. he has six operational airfields, weve taken down one and the air infrastructure -- airpower isntot just with runways and airplanes, its also the ammunition depots that are at those fields, the maintenance warehouses, you take out that infrastructure that supports this airpower, we could have actually if we had enough ships in the area, ...

Official at in hour that approximately 50 tomahawk missiles launched earlier this evening. they are striking we are told airfields. this is the limited option. the airfields where bashar assads launched those war planes that struck and killed those people in northern syria in that attack. these cruise missiles have a particular military advantage. they can fly to evade syrian air defenses. you dont put a pilot at risk. theyre not manned. this was one of the two options presented to the president...

And that is we are going to destroy one of the six airfields or significantly degrade one the significant airfields. the airfield from which he had conducted that sarin attack 48 hours ago. it had a clear mission. he gave the significant military forces to achieve it and he achieved it therefore it was the right choice and conducted in the right way. ainsley: senator, some others disagree with you, some of your counterparts, mike lee, rand paul, tim kaine, elizabeth warren they all came out. you...

Doesnt want to touch it. i think the equitable point in terms of what charles has said, charlie is saying about the notion of, what did trump do, interesting that we have u.s. army rangers in the north. what are the ranges tasked with doing? seizing airfields. im sure one of the options presented was an incursion by that regard. if he didnt do that, that suggests he wanted the response that was least likely to inflame some of those. >> this is my two chuck panel here, by the way. >> what he want...

And far-reaching discussion before the president made his final decision. he went into what is a secure room at mar-a-lago with secretary tillerson, with mcmaster. there were people on the conference by seceideo conference from the white house. and that is where we are told inside that room there was a sort of confidence, a cautious confidence about the decision they had made. there are now other decisions obviously that will need to be made going forward. they hit one of six airfields. is that ...