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Hours earlier that donald trump in reaction to the gas attacks, 48 hours earlier had said somethings going to happen. last night at 8:45 we saw something. brian: absolutely. ainsley: something big. lets bring in andrew big a former intelligence officer and advisor to the united states and nato advisors in afghanistan. we also have gary bernsen and tony shaffer, former cia intel officer and retired u.s. army. thank you, gentlemen, all for joining us. >> good morning. ainsley: gary, i will start w...

Folks in the navy. what could be next? >> why did we use cruise missiles? because we didnt want to talk down the air defense system. there are different ways to do this. one can do it on the ground and various options need to be looked at the key there is we need a political option to end this conflict which has killed 4 to 500,000 people and move 9 to 10 million out of tla heir home into oblivion. thats a serious tragedy and its a big one. the recent effect of the gas attacks has called attenti...

I thought it was a very strong move on the part of the president. >> there has been a lot of discussion about the speed of this. the fact that several days ago we heard secretary of state rex tillerson indicate, look, the future of assad is up to the syrian people. weve heard the president time and time again saying he didnt want to intervooi vein in syria. his calculation completely changed when he saw the devastating images. he taulked about the fact that e was personally affected. what does t...

Come to the united states and todays mission said to be for the children. and at the same time the children in the videotapes are barred from the u.s. per the presidents executive order which is barred in the courts. >> tremendous contradiction. weve seen president trump shift from nationalism, fortress mentality about the united states not being engaged in the problems in the world and gone out to send a strong message to bashar al assad. he has shifted. one would hope as hes highlighting babie...

Syria and the impact its had these latest gas attacks on killing all these kids. >> do you think that assad should leave power in syria? >> i think what happened in syria is a dis-great to humanity and hes there and i guess hes running things, so something should happen. >> referring to al assad. i think hes running things so something should happen but johns thats a marked contrast to what we heard only a few days ago from tillerson, the ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley, the regime change in...

State that we would not be continuing the obama reproach of wanting regime change. the official policy was, now we have, as an emotional response -- >> that was before a chemical weapons attack on civilians. >> i understand. but if youre going to announce a policy and then you revoke at three days later because of the presidents emotional reaction to pictures -- remember, assad has been killing people for seven years. the other thing is, in iraq, saddam had had those syrian gas attacks, and trum...

Filibuster but that move expected to fail since it would take 60 votes. that is where the nuclear option comes in lowering the threshold to simple majority of 51 votes. if that scenario plays out, neil gorsuch would be confirmed by tomorrow night forget the red line, bashar al-assad and the syrian regime has crossed too many lines. rob: enough is enough in the wake of these sickening gas attacks. >> i now have a responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it through. rob: how th...

Oreilly with geraldo, talking about susan rice. my crazy, right-wing son emailed me and said i see you are talking about the gas attacks in syria. its so bad. i said, as awful as this sounds, its not our fight. he goes, i dont know. violating u.n. agreements, practically endorsing this. obama didnt do squat and now this happens. you are like obama right now, dad. >> dana: i love him. i you did such a good job raisig him. im going to go next. you thought journalism is dead? its not. high school j...

Arab peace initiative as i said last week, offers a historic reconciliation between israel and the palestinians as well as all member states of the arab league. it is the most copper has a framework for lasting peace and it ensures safety for the palestinians but also security, acceptance and normal tires for israel with all of our countries and hopefully all these other countries. we appreciate your commitment and all of these issues where others have failed. you will find a strong ally in jord...

With that type of attack. >> hospitals and emergency services were targeted immediately after the attack. many of the injured had to be evacuated to turkey. the u.n. envoy to syria described the attack as horrific. >> what we have understood is it was a chemical attack and it came from the air. we will be seeking all those who have the capacity to find out what happened. >> observers say a chemical agent may have been dropped in an air strike. its an opposition held area and government forces ha...