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Language that the entire muslim world can agree on. those odds are very much stacked against him. >> joining us colonel jack jacobs and colonel jack, while the president is trying to lay out this vision of not going it alone in terms of america fighting terrorism. what is that type to encourage other countries onboard with this show of unified strength. >> it is extremely difficult to do because the views, the countries, the objectives, the interest in that region is so fragmented. every country...

West palm beach the president has left his mar-a-lago home and is now at his trump international golf club in west palm beach. we have not had any sightg of the president. we dont have any specifics about whether he has meetings or just pure recreation planned. well keep you posted as we hear more. hes at his golf club right now. >> kelly odonnell, thank you so much for bringing us up to date on the latest there. now we want to devil a little deeper. im joined with kemp jack jay cons, shane gold...

For so many. even beautiful babies were cruelly murded in this very barbaric attack. no child of god should ever suffer such horror. >> now, the syrian government claims charges, they were responsible for the chemical attack are fabricated while a u.s. official confirms the russians who have backed assad were warned ahead of the missile launch. more than two dozen members of congress, including the gang of eight that includes both democratic and republican leaders of the house and senate were br...

Seeing a reaction to our troops in the field. what we will likely see is rhetoric and words, not action. that was the purpose of this strike. >> colonel, there is no word on any casualties at this point, that nbc has independently confirmed. but in talking about that, when you look at the offensiveness and how that may cripple on that side, were talking about the 59 tomahawk missiles, the hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistic cal storage, how will that cripple them? >> well, it will...

I want to start with you, colonel jack. talking about the options that the united states could have taken here and the timeline. so do you think that this was the ideal one to take given the other options there and the effectiveness in the short and long term. >> yes. given what the president wanted to accomplish. youve got to start at the end and work backwards. what is it he wanted to do? he wanted to demonstrate that hes strong. dont forget theres a domestic audience as well as an internation...

Doing what hes trying to do with president xi in china. put more political and economic pressure on north korea or we may have to act unilaterally. >> were going to be devilling into north korea throughout the hour. we have a lot more to talk about. thank you colonel jack. and coming up, were going to dig more deeply into the rising tension with north korea. was the massive bomb drop in afghanistan a warning shot for pyongyang. income war could break out on the papa nins -- peninsula at a mome...

It was headquarters complex. we have at liets and drones. we saw these people coming and going across the border from pakistan, developing the site. i think we had a high degree of intelligence that this was a headquarters element. it may have had a significant impact on the isis people who are operating in that area. and it is a remote area and thats one reason why its been extremely difficult for afghan force to attack. but it may very well have been an extremely effective attack in making it ...

Lets bring in retired colonel jack jacobs, military analyst. thank you very much for being here. >> good morning. >> colonel, how significant would you say that this news is in the context of our nations histor history? >> castro hasnt been a factor in the operations of the cuban government for some time. weve been jousting with cuba and castro for almost 60 years. vafk now running the operation, but hes not all that much younger than fidel. yes, his death, fidels death is certainly will usher i...

Totalitarian regime. but also the fact that he was a strong, athletic man, a towering figure, and had lasted so long for so many decades, had outlasted ten american presidents with whom he had sparred verbally, and with one as you were pointing out with colonel jack, had a military engagement that led to the blockade and a showdown. we went to the brink of new york war. it was terrifying. i was in high school at the time. i was in high school, and i remember how scary it was. >> the memories are...