working on, working on every same problem set and president putin and president trump to discuss that. there s lots of work to do to figure out how to implement that but they want to be part of achieving that resolution in syria, make no mistake about it. your first question was about what we need to see. it s really pretty straightforward. and is not my description of what needs to take place. chairman kim made a promise. chairman kim told not only president trump a president moon that he was prepared to denuclearize. the scope and scale of that is agreed to. the north koreans understand what that means. there s no mistake about what the scope of denuclearization looks like so what do we need to see? we need to see chairman kim do what he promised the world he would do. not very fancy but it s the truth. harris: with that copies of the secretary of state mike
u.s. military contingent that came here to help with the rescue operations. we haven t been able to talk to many of you guys about what was going on up in the mountain, up in the cave. can you tell me about how the u.s. was contributing to this phenomenal effort? absolutely. so you know, the royal thai government put a request in for our support. we came here about two weeks ago, a team of like pararescue, survival specialists, as well as support package, so medical, communications and logistics. our role here really was to advise and assist our thai partners. and as we kind of looked at the problem set and the development of the various courses of action, what was practical and how can we best provide some of the insight. we have that knowledge when it comes to search and rescue, and if we can provide that, we are more than happy to do so. reporter: so the u.s. personn
yesterday. yesterday. after you said that. yes. and then second, you talked about targeting the chemical weapons infrastructure of al assad, if there were actually any chemical weapons or agents in those facilities that you targeted, i assume they would create health hazard in the region or no? we don t believe we did very close analysis as the chairman pointed out, we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment and our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties. we are very much aware this is difficult to do in a situation like this. especially when the poison gas that assad assured the world he had gotten rid of obviously still exists. so it is a challenging problem set and we have the right military officers dealing with it.
administration needs to be talking to congress for any further authorization. chuck schumer is praising limited action to punish and deter him from doing this again. but he says he s cautioning the administration into getting us further into syria. and we know that the president has said that s something he doesn t want. there s some conflict in some of the message. i can almost look at these as two separate events, our involvement in syria that s been ongoing with isis, and then a limited strike response to a chemical weapons usage. and i think if we separate those, let s get a handle on it and make this very measured, narrow, and well-defined this is about the chemical weapons. it s about syria s use. everything else is a different problem set. they bleed over, but let s try and separate these for now. we need to have the larger
about targeting the chemical weapons infrastructure of al al-assad if there were any chemical weapons in those facilities you targeted, i would assume they would create a health hazard in the region? we did very close analysis, as the chairman pointed out, we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment and our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possibly any chance of civilian casualties, we are very much aware this is difficult to do in a situation like this. especially when the poison gas that assad assured the world he had gotten rid of obviously still exists. so it is a challenging problem set and we had the right military officers dealing with it. you can confirm there s going to be no leak into the air of course, not.