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Doesnt make the decision. the commander makes the decision. the military lawyer the jag officer will give you advice. and you have the experts on your staff who are very well versed in the law of land warfare. the convention and the uniform code of military justice. they will tell you things like this is a good target. this one you have to be careful because theres some type of civilian facility and youll kill a an amount of civilian. there will be clat roll damage and explosions. thats a consid...

Execute from the sea and the air. we talked about the sea. youve got bases all throughout the region. you can look at al udade was certainly a source. the french fly out of jordan and the uae as well so assets there in the region. what were they up against? they were up against a significant russian air defense system, the s-300 and s-400 which has a range of 250 miles. puts about a 315-pound warhead. they can be easily moved around. so its hard to detect them. as we can see from the results and...

Bases throughout the air. one navy war slip based in the red sea also took part in this. from the air, u.s. used b1 bombers which features long-range missiles at supersonic speed and hold up to 24 cruise missiles. >> we know the uk used four royal air force tornado gr4s in these strikes. they launched cruise missiles as the a former base 50 miles west of homs. the french launched rafael fighter jets which can refuel in flight and go up to 863 miles per hour. all 139 kilometers per hour. >> lets ...

Bases. they also have in the region these strike fighters. it has a range of 300 to 350 miles. sit similar to the long range missile that we have only a shorter range. for our sake it has a stand off of about 650 miles. they could be fired from aircraft that we the united states have based there. we have bombers there. there are f-15s that can fire this missile. lots of opportunities to launch cruise missiles.

Assad regime or looking for regime change. were looking to send a message that the rest of the world is not going to tolerate the use of these weapons. and the russians did not respond. they did not try and engage any of the american, french or british units because theyre not looking for an escalation either. the russians do not want to upset whats going on in syria right now because they are on the verge of a political and military victory because once syria, the syrian government reasserts it...

These attacks were able to overwhelm the syrian air defense system. its also important to note that we flew a variety of defensive counterair, tanker and electronic warfare aircraft in support of these operations. none of our aircraft or missiles involved in this operation were successfully engaged by syrian air defenses. and we have no indication that russian air defense systems were employed. we are confident that all of our missiles reached their targets. at the end of the strike mission, all...

Important part of this dynamic. we did have as you recited the history clearly while some chemical weapons were removed and as we have seen the evidence not all. we must hold the regime accountable. that means putin paying a price for these chemical attacks. unfortunately, as part of this, even though congress has by unanimous bases passed the sanctions on the regime. this white house refused to follow the law and follow through on making sure those sanctions stick. that has to change and i hope...

Diplomatic effort. a sustained effort to stop bashar assad from using chemical weapons again. does that mean it goes on in the coming days in it is notable that the french president reached out to the russia president today, offering that olive branch saying that they want to find a diplomatic situation to the civil war in syria. in the recent days, we have noted as more time went on, the syrian air force was moved to protection apt the russian air base and the syrians are trying to protect key ...

Involved in the attack, it posed great concern and there must be a real scratching of head but another major when you will see the french, british and united states taking serious action. the escalation is a problem. we start hitting bases or irani and bases and you have a big problem because they will retaliate. that is engaging with aircraft. i dont think anyone wants to go there. i suspect a lot of back channel discussions agreeing on targets, those targets have been hit. everyone needs to di...

Assad, is not breed without consent from russia and israel. they think that they have every reason the administration think of every reason to do this because this is the downside of last night. it did not go to the heart of our problem. which is the iranians and russians are now on the ground. two bases in syria and the iranians also call the shots. we have no long-term strategy for changing that situation on the ground. that is the administration the next challenge. >> lets pivot a bit judy an...