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Continues regardless of this. the u.s. was quite clear that chemical weapons were the focus here as was the uk and france for six years and no interest in changing the balance of the syrian civil war and havent the last 72 hours. the question is what is new red line? is it chlorine or saran and for its allies to think about never using chemical weapons again? back to you. >> good to see you. thank you for the insight there. lieutenant general mark hertling with us now and another analyst. than...

Chemical used, do you know what it was? was it nerve agent, was it chlorine or do you have a sense of what it was? >> we are very much aware of one of the agents, there may have been more than one agent used. we are not clear on that yet. we know at least one chemical agent was used. >> i just want to clayfy on the deconfliction line, you notified the russian as head of time before the operation began what you were going to do and what targets to strike. >> ill be clear, the only communications ...

Site and clearly it was happy to contribute this time around as well. >> it has been interesting to hear u.s. officials speak about what happens next. atika, the pentagon were asked this morning, what if bashar al-assad uses chlorine gas as a chemical weapon in the future, does that prompt another strike. does france have a lower bar or do you expect to hear any details on the french on that? >> reporter: france have made it clear that everyone though this is a targeted strike and it is proporti...

And we used our normal deconfliction channels, those were active this week to work through the airspace issues and so forth. we did not do any coordination with the russians on the strikes, nor did we prenotify them. >> a couple days ago you said youre still assessing the intelligence on the chemicals weapons attack -- suspected attack. so at this point do you know what the chemical was used in that attack? was it sarin? was it chlorine? what was your evidence it was delivered by the syrian regi...

What kind of poison gas? is it any kind of poison gas? is it just sarin? is it chlorine? were not clear on that but i think locked and loaded from nikki haley tells us all we need to know. >> im joined by the best in the business. thank you all three. so now that the strikes have been carried out, the question that is being asked, what is next. coming up, the presidents strategy for syria. were going to dig into that, including the mission to try to defeat isis. right now... aah! ...i would have...

Heres secretary mattis. were talk on the other side. >> were still assessing the intelligence ourselves and our allies, still working on this. >> is the u.s. military ready right now for a retaliatory strike? >> we stand ready to provide military options if theyre appropriate, as the president determined. >> hans, we are still assessing -- again, we heard from prime minister theresa may yesterday. sounds as if the united kingdom is not onboard in terms of military strikes until they determine de...