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Along with keir simmonss out of london. were bring you the latest details as soon as we get them. back here stocks are mixed in first hour. the labor department says the economy added 98,000 jobs in march, well below expectations of a again of 180,000 jobs. but on a brighter note, the unemployment rate dropped two notches, the lowest in a decade. hillary clinton continued to jump back into the political conversation. heres what he said last night hours before president trump launched the air...

Power, particularly this one. what is it were trying to do? once we decide what it is were trying to do, then we can decide whether were going to act or not act. but if what youre trying to do is change the regime, youre going to have to send lots of people, probably a multi-national force. were going to have lots of people occupying the place. were going to have to do it in coordination with the russians and iran too. can you see this happening? and then have a large number of people there for,...

If we allow him to do that now with impunity, we are setting a terrible, terrible press dented. done the right way, theres the prospect that we can rattle his cage, rattle the russians, rattle the syrians. we should do it at a time and place of our choosing. ides focus on the airplanes and airfields that are responsible. we have plans in place to do that. heres the thing. we cant sugarcoatst risks. theyre real. you have russians and iranians on the bases. they could be killed. you have air defen...

Field. but look, chemical weapons are not just delivered by airplanes. hes got artillery. hes got rockets. hes got barrel bombs that come out of helicopters. cratering six airfields will do nothing. if he wants to send a signal, that is an option. there are broader options. do you want to go after all that capability. do you want to end assads ability to launch chemical weapons, to launch nerve agents against his own people. does the pentagon know how to do it? you bet they do. but thats going t...

Airfields, correct? there are russian planes there. >> they should move them. >> bill: a warn them and destroyed theires infrastructur. >> then i would make sure theyd never be another incident like this. they would never be bombed again by assad. theyd be safe to zones where people could go back to syria from europe and the united states. >> bill: weve said that for years. >> talk wont do it. this is a time for president trump to show the world he is not president obamaa this is the horrible ev...

Strike, to go after very precise targets. >> airfields, runways, that sort of thing? >> you want to keep the syrian aircraft and helicopters on the ground. >> general, thank you very much. david, let me go to you. this is trumps first decision about war. lets not mirnce words. thats what this is. >> its critical because hes never made this kind of decision before. as you indicated in the run-up to this, he actually opposed taking military steps and during -- in 2013 tweeted about it, spoke about...

That they would like to close down the operations of the syrian air force. the syrians operate out of about four or five major airfields. closing them would be not a challenge so much, but keeping them closed would be. we could shut down the airport. you want to take out the aircraft and runways, and all that. the u.s. military has plans to do this. theyre very effective at it. the problem isnt can we do it. the problem is what happens after we do that. are the russians going to stand by as we d...

United nations ambassador said we might have to do something ourselves if the u.n. wont. what the president said all options on the table. secretary of state said there is no doubt that assad pep trarpet this. chris, it is true we have seen this before. the one in 2013 was the biggest one. in the interim, there is lots of chemical weapons attacks. nothing like this one again four years later. which is a nerve gas. there are options that are being suggested for a punitive limited measure taken ag...

Days, anyway. it would make the trip harder if they act ahead of the trip and there are injuries or deaths among russians. >> tony, would trumps team notify the russians and if so, would the russians notify assad? we know putin is the reason assad is still in power. hes propping up that regime. >> this is an important question. you could take a limited focus strike targeting the airplanes and airfields responsible for this attack and then go to the russians and say theres going to be more unless...

Were going to take everything out. would that be enough to change assads behavior? i think there is a fair understanding that that is not likely to change his mind, especially with the russians at his side. so the next set of options would be do you want to take out all of assads capability to deliver chemical weapons? that is a difficult proposition. you have to take out airfields, helicopters that drop barrel bombs filled with chemical agent. the manufacturing sites that make the barrel bombs ...