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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 ...

Was it nerve agent, chlorine? >> 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 clarify, you notified the russians ahead of time before the operation began >>im going to be clear. the only communication that is took place specifically with this operation before the targets were struck was the normal deconfliction of the air space. >> you mentioned the syrian a...

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...

Needed to conduct the attack. >> reporter: as far as the chemical use was it nerve agent or chlorine. do you have a sense of what have it was. >> we are aware of the agent. there may have been more than one. we know one chemical agent was used. we are confident chlorine was used but not ruling out serin now. >> and the pentagon would have a press briefing 9:00 a.m. eastern with the spokesman, dana white and lieutenant general frank mckenzy. hanon. >> shannon: well tanned by for that. jennifer, t...