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♪ abby: back with a fox news alert. the u.s. leads a coordinated effort to strike syria overnight. more than 100 missiles launched targeting three specific sites that lasted about an hour. pete: the president is focused on keeping our on the ground in syria safe. griff: retired u.s. marine corps bomb technician johnny joey jones lost both of his legs in a bomb blast while serving in afghanistan. he joins us now. good morning, sir. >> good morning, guys. griff: what are your thoughts on whats h...

New, gave plenty of time for the syrian government to prepare for the attack and the russian military to prepare for the attack. we know the russian military was able to remove nar ships from the port. the syrian army moved many of their men, many of their equipment on russian army bases. there was plenty of time to react. because of that, what you are seeing is a very effective propaganda effort aimed at the syrian people after seven years of brutal war, half a million dead, 11 million people d...

Front in syria to confront israel. israel is facing a cross-border front with hezbollah and iran now between israel in lebanon and israel in syria. iran is far away and for a long time it wanted to establish strategic bases on the front now when the civil war in syria is over, daesh is almost defeated, the iranians have the time for a huge military buildup in syria. and, thus, the ability to just a month ago, an iranian drone filled with explosives was shot above israel on its way to explode, to...

Military casualties. what ooh have been hearing over three, four days, that air base, in particular has seen an emptying of, sophisticated technology, such as war planes, and, some missiles to other securer locations. or to russian bases. i doubt the damage is too significant. now in the third base. which is a huge section on its own, in western damascus. it is not really near any civilian areas. this was in fact, the first location, the israelis targeted in 2014 if you remember. so, it was, cle...

He allowed them to move their equipment on to russian bases. that was obviously key here in what we saw in the last 24 hours. >> can we get your sense how the remarks from president trump has been received by foreign media. he talked about syria and talked about iran and russia. how is it playing globally? >> like a man who has political problems at home. the world view of president trump is a storm in a teacup. theres a narrative going around that perhaps general mattis was able to pull preside...

So what is it? was it a success or not? they struck the targets they were going after. we dont know whether there was syrian military killed or civilian casualties. we were told late last night in a briefing that there were no u.s. hits. so all u.s. aircraft returned back to their bases safely. so what they did not go after that would allow the syrian regime to continue to hit their own civilians with chemical weapons is the delivery mechanisms. april of 2017, we saw the u.s. strike a specific s...

Overwhelm the syrian air defense system. its important to note we flew a variety of defensive counter air, tanker and electronic warfare aircraft in support of the operations. none of our aircraft or missiles involved were successfully engaged by syrian air defenses. we have no indication russian air defense systems were deployed. we are confident all missiles reached their target. in the end, all our aircraft returned to their bases. we assess over 40 surface-to-air missiles were deployed by th...

January 2017 helped him get the heave-ho. but the important thing about cohen is cohen also met in new york with an opposition leader in ukraine and they discussed the sanctions, which are the most important thing with putin. and in a sealed envelope, he caused their discussion and their summary to go to flynn. but presently i think were in a bomb ballet. i think the syrian thing -- consider the fact that ambassador huntsman actually meats with the russians to set up what the attack is going to ...

The second strike is quite a large base and quite cordened off. but from what iver been reporting and hearing is that the air base in particular has seen sophisticated technology as far as war planes and some missiles to other securer locations or russian bases. now in the third base, which is a huge section on its own in western damascus. its not really near any civilian areas. its the first location they targeted if you can remember. very sensitive and significant military importance. accordin...

At the scope of these strikes, the fact that they did not come anywhere near any russian aircraft bases or personnel. as youve heard throughout the day, no russian assets at all affected by this. and the russians now allowed to continue on with their main mission, which of course is propping up the assad regime. >> pentagon working so hard and doing such a good job of that, avoiding such a conflict. weve been talking about that over the last 24 hours about the very lines that they have to avoid ...