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That they have seen before with the syrians especially and possibly this case the russians that they wanted to destroy evidence at that hospital compound. >> bill: we can i.d. drones anyway, so they were russian drones in that area. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> bill: okay, now. the ron pauls of the world say, "oh, no... how solid is the evidence that assad killed these 20 kids with sarin gas? >> i was told by my contacts that we have very high confidence and there were multiple stream...

White house security council under presidents bush and obama. do you see any unintended consequences from this attack in syria? >> um, theres always a possibility for unintended consequences. i feel like the demonstration would not do this if they had not gamed out the potential side effects here. theres always a risk wherever the united states undertake military action abroad, whether or not we have come under direct attack or not, there will be risks here. this is not offensive action, as you ...

>> bill: i.d. rapid fired answers. the chinese foreign minister said they shouldnt have done it. everyone should come down. was there anything coming outside of the president talking with mr. trump today on the missile attacks? anything at all? any utterance? spent well, there wasnt any public utterance, but im told, bill, that the white house believes it was pretty impressive show of force that the president went out last night to his chinese counterpar counterpart. and that will be taken back ...

Many. the attack is justifiable on a human rights basis the liberal community is on human rights, that their dilemma. if missoula, montana, where is the u.n. help on that syria, where it always is, being discussed in meetings. mr. oh, you let lois lerner off too easy, what she did at the irs was criminal and she should have gone to prison. this may come as a shock to you but i do not have the power to incarcerate. if i did, prison overcrowding would be a far worse problem that it is now, i would...

Direct conflict with the united states. he can survive with al qaeda and isis. what he cannot do is cross a redline that has been firmly established and a penalty is being affixed to that. second of that, bashar al-assads military is on the narrow margins of survivability. the air force and all practical purposes barely exist anymore. the syrian air army no longer desists. that is why they need conscripts and mercenaries from afghanistan, he -- the syrian people will not fight on the behalf of b...

There is really no doubt. >> bill: okay. w there was always doubt among those who will not believe, no matter what you present, through them. iran has been strangely signed about this. p i havent heard any saber rattling. have you? >> thats a little bit more worrying. what you dont know. >> bill: right. >> one of the possible plans for retaliation that they considered when they were planning this whole thing out is that syria and iran wouldns use their proxy hezbollah to launch an attack, that t...

Until today. so its obvious there was rekay. colonel wood, when you saw the missiles hit the airfield in syria, did anything pop in your mind like a ron is doing this and put in is going to do that? thats what we mean by unintended consequences. >> i think there will be unintended horizontal consequences where putin will not see whole opportunity to up the game in syria, especially if he doesnt want to go to war in the united states. but he can do that in other theaters, ukraine continues, disme...

Reaction, but i would say the leading edge of this investigation right now is into whether russia had some kind ofi role, bill, in this chemical attack earlier this week, and whether a second strike on that town in syria was really an effort to destroy evidence and be part of a larger cover-up of that crime. and that is really where a military intelligence is focused tonight. >> bill: they had a drone, i understand?ll >> correct. >> bill: russian drone over the area where the chemicals dropped a...

He just said that everyone should calm down. thats why i was looking for a joint statement of any kind by the chinese president and donald trump, but today we didnt get anything. all they did is they had snacks at mar-a-lago i guess. i dont know what else they did there. >> they sidestepped out of the got on the plane. >> bill: there wasnt any -- >> we will settle on out off here.>> it was strange. i cant imagine how awkward, like, you know on the protocol level that mustve been for these two le...

China is a key to our safety, we need their help in north korea, do you think they were upset that we did this to syria or they dontey care? >> i think they are incredibly strategic. they play for the long game. if there is one nation out there that understands the long game, its china. look at history, look at sun tzu, look at everything they publish and classify domain. i think they understand. i think the bigger part of this is a new, really, this is proofd that we have a new president and th...