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Statements of our officials, ru richard. >> during a disinformation campaign here, this administration definitely hitting out against russia in more aggressive ways than weve seen in the first year of this presidency. that along the lines of now an attack and rusch cosia coming b and saying this is words of aggression. is this the right time for this move, this strike given the rhetoric that is so heated? >> well, i wish the strike could have happened in a vacuum, so to speak, without the clou...

Lebanon for us. what are you seeing in the region in terms of the response so far, bill? and there was the response out of the u.n. security council to add to that. >> reporter: yeah, in a way, richard, the response was predictable but fairly muted. i think many people, many governments expected the air strikes to be much worse. remember the russian ambassador to the u.n. just 48 hours ago saying he couldnt rule out the possibility of a war between russia and the u.s. well, that obviously has be...

>> so you did like it? >> yeah. but thats not the question. the question is do large doses of fire power fix a strategic problem and that really is where i think we come up short. >> if you can here, major general, what should we do next militarily? >> i think were pretty much done militarily. theres only one footprint we have left in syria, in eastern syria around the euphrates river, 2,000 americans buttressed by kurds who basically control syrias access to their own oil fields. i think being ...

Facility. but, you know, its not yet clear that all the chemical stocks, as hans was outlining, have been destroyed and not yet clear that this mornings, this early mornings strike has proved to be a deterrent. and one other thing to note is what wasnt hit. syrias air force wasnt touched. you know, 250 warplanes still there, 80 helicopters. those aircraft have caused the majority of the hundreds of thousands of deaths in the syrian war so far. they are still in tact. so, you know, tomorrow morni...

Looking at what happened in the last 24 hours. how costly was this to assad. he did win his tactical victory and hes still standing. >> stay with me on the idea for a while, is this transactional foreign policy? is this the trump doctrine, as we often talk about, when we look at administrations and the way they approach foreign policy, is this transactional foreign policy? >> its certainly a unique kind of foreign policy, sorry, richard, than weve ever seen before. its unlike i think any other f...

Reporter. this is a government, a country that supports the government of syria. >>reporter: thats right, richard. very strongly supports the assad government. theyve invested a lot of political and financial capital in syria. they strongly condemn the attacks this morning. they said that the u.s. attack on syria was a flagrant violation of international laws, ignoring syrias sovereignty. they warned of a broader regional consequences because of this attack and even said that president trump lau...

Many have said was the things that are happening here at home part of why we did things abroad? >> richard, i dont think theres any evidence of that, but what ive been focusing on with this issue is the information war. were in an information war with russia right now, the united states is, and we appear to be losing it pretty badly. russia is pushing back against this strike in syria and alleging that the chemical attack was staged by britain and theyre doing it on social media in english in a ...

>> and russia and syria and bolivia said yes. you saw the number of missiles who were successfully, all 105 despite other numbers coming from syria as well as russia. how did we do? what is one thing that you saw that this trilateral prosecution did well? whats one thing that you liked? >> heres the thing, richard. the american military loves this stuff. theyre very good at the mathematically perfect, tactically elegant means of delivering distance fire power from outside the range of the enemys...

Foreign policy via tweet, does that then result in what we have seen, which is a chemical attack on civilians in syria? those who are critical of the way the president has approached foreign policy this week say that is part of why we did have this attack potentially. your reflection? >> yeah, richard. what the last days events have really unveiled for all of us to see is essentially the failure of this administrations syria policy. its a failure on a strategic level, a failure in terms of its m...

That. its huge, its true. more and more elements of that christopher steele dossier are proving out as this investigation unfolds, richard. >> david, as we saw the former fbi director come to the cameras for the first time, heard him speak on his new book, talking about james comey, all part of the russia investigation that the four of us are talking about, david. that was i think some might think atypical of an fbi director, those who would be critical what james comey has done in his book and ...