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Has to make a huge impression on president she when it comes to north korea. its really a threefold message, want to bashar al-assad, two to the russians and three to the chinese about north korea. >> what happens to bashar al-assad? nikki haley was with her the other day interviewing her, she called him a war criminal. that means bringing him to the international criminal court, potentially. only 30 seconds left. does he leave the regime change? is not so moscow friendly because of their bases ...

Mattis when he briefed the president was that russians could die in these tomahawk strikes, given the fact that russians are embedded on these bases within the syrian military. there is a great deal of concern about the proximity of u.s. forces, there are about a thousand u.s. forces on the ground in syria, there about 6,000 on the ground in a rack where we just learned last week from the top commander in iraq that 100,000 a thousand iranian troops are inside a rack mount fighting very close to ...

Get worse, and i think donald trump would go to congress if you wanted to declare war on syria. again, i think this is a big mistake to escalate this any further but, you know, is assad going to use chemical weapons again, is he going to hit hospitals and schools? or is he going to have hezbollah, which has bases within syria commit to it for him. it gets so ugly. i hope we are done with this now. >> investor nikki haley said they dont want to have to do mo do more if thats what it comes down to...

Opportunity to take down one of them just to show us they have the capacity. or they may ramp it up and go to scud missiles against u.s. forces bases in northern syria that are preparing for the offensive against raqqah. if they dont do it, the iranians might do it just to show they are independent of all of this. and if iranian soldiers are killed here, they may want to exact their own retaliation. >> malcolm nance, our veteran of the overseas intelligence game. i thought the photos were worth ...

Theyre not -- their support for assad is not unconditional. its never been about assad, the man himself. in fact, i think they see him as a sort of unwieldy ally. they wish that he would sort of be a more easily influenced bhi what they want to achieve. the russians as cal perry was explaining earlier have some very concrete goals and things they want to achieve in syria. mostly maintaining their stronghold in the middle east. maintaining control and access to their bases there, especially the t...

Proximity to u.s. forces on similar bases. they went through the normal channels and what they were trying to do was reduce and hopefully eliminate avoid russian casualties. they said they did have conversations late shortly before the strike with russian forces on the ground, but no conversations directly at least with moscow, but then the secretary of state, this is one of the rare times weve seen him exhibit he was leading this briefing, was giving the whole sort of statement of this administ...

Knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. it could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. telling them that there are no chemical weapons, all the while stockpiling them on their bases. the world is waiting for the russian government to act responsibly in syria. the world is waiting for russia to reconsider its misplaced alliance with bashar al-assad. the united state...

It could be that russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. it could be that russia has been incompetent in its efforts to remove the chemical weapons. or it could be that the assad regime is playing the russians for fools. telling them that there are no chemical weapons all the while stockpiling them on their bases. the world is waiting for the russian government to act responsibly in syria. the world is waiting for russia to reconsider its misplaced alliance with assad. ...

Support it is assad regime and bases inside syria. nbcs bill kneelly is live in moscow. bill, whens the word this morning from the kremlin? >> reporter: yeah. good morning, stephanie. president putin just finished chairing a meeting of his national security council and issued a statement saying -- condemning this act of aggression as they call it. they said it would have inevitable negative consequences on the joint fight of terrorism and damage u.s./russian relations. and russias defense minist...

Further activity of that, were not going to kill all of the syrian air force people at those six bases. we are only going to damage enough to send a very loud and clear message to assad and also to the russians that the united states policy has fundamentally changed as it pertains to syria from the previous administration. i think hes found a way to do that without doing unnecessary damage. >> shep: its 20 minutes to 4:00 in the morning there, the sun will rise in an hour and a half. weve sent t...