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Theres an administrative and maintenance area. its not that large. 50 tomahawk will send a message and do damage. will it damage aircraft? i dont know. it depend on the ability of the tomahawk to penetrate. >> i assume it would depend on whether or not the syrian air force had moved the jets because if they were going to -- if this he we they were concerned about an attack they might assume the air base where they had launched the gas attack they might have moved aircraft and i assume the u.s. w...

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Find out how involved the russians really were in what was going on and this sort of new thing about is there really a syrian chemical weapons program? i think it is fair to say we have seen so many of these chemical attacks, whether its chlorine or nerve agent before. this was not a secret to the world, but it looks now like the trump administration wants to take a closer look at it, wolf. >> well, if there is evidence of direct russian involvement in this chemical, this this gas attack against...

Slowly through the air, not as quickly as you might expect. this one airbase airfield, fueling points, we mention that some chemical weapons, agents we believe are stored at this airbase. this one airbase took 50 tomahawk missiles, thats 50,00n this one case. it is very clear on the decision tonight to just strike this one base but this is designed to send a warning to the bashar al-assad regime. not to use his air force to kill his own people or to risk losing that air force. this is a limited ...

Actual tick-tock. about a week ago, the abbasid united nations telegraph at the receiving chamber in syria was no longer the top priority in that country for the united states. boxer al-assad may have seen is a green light that he could start attacking his own people with impunity. that climaxed on tuesday into wednesday with reports of that sarah and gas attack that killed so many civilians, president trump saw that and you cant help but look at those pictures of the children and the babies are...

>> president trump announcing the air strikes while meeting in florida with chinas president. joining us now live from mar-a-lago with the latest from a trump compound in florida is fox news correspondent kristin fisher. kristin, whats happening on the ground. >> he made his first big military action and presence he showed two things. he is willing to take decisive military action perhaps what his predecessor were not. he also said he is willing to be very flexible and change his stance as situa...

For a long time, you see what happens when bad actors around the world do things but have you seen anything this quick? it happened tuesday, the gas attack was tuesday. thursday night, 48 hours we hit bombs on the airbase. >> ordinarily we would go to the united nations, extensive consultations, talking to congress, the bad guys would move the weapons out of the area. the swiftness of that action sends a signal to rope states, iran and north korea. >> the targeted nature of it, you let the russi...

Have to do it and theyre a real player and need to begin to shape the outcome and i think we should be ready to work to try to shape an outcome to stop this tragedy. >> ambassador thomas pickering, thank you so much. >> thank you very much, brooke. just in this past hour, by the way, the chinese president left mar-a-lago, the presidents club in florida, officially ending this 24-hour summit with president trump. the strikes in syria happening in the midst of dinner together between these two w...

Complicit. you know, for the last 18 hours, it seems as though russia hasnt really been waiting the u.s. in terms of a diplomatic response. their rhetoric has been many what muted. we just heard the u.s. turn it up several degrees and a strong warning, saying that we preserve the option to do it again. that was a very forceful speech. frankly, a very bellicose one. >> jeremy bash, are we witnessing here a bit of a paradigm shift when it comes to how we deal with russia? >> well, i think shes cle...

In that country began to escalate, culminating with that apparent gas attack on tuesday and into wednesday. a lot of people in the administration look at this and said, did bashar al- assad take what was said by nikki haley, the group of reporters, as a green light for assad to start attacking his people with impunity? just to remind you of what it was that ambassador haley said, she said "you pick and choose your battles and when we are looking at this, it is about changing up priorities. in ou...