Rettives Isheda Statement News Today

Theres going to be a lot of questions in coming days. >> nancy pelosi the democratic leader in the house of rettives ished a statement. peter, let me read you part it. then she goes onto say if the president intends to escalate the u.s. militarys involvement in syria, he must come to congress for an authorizization for the use of military force which is tailored to meet it the threat and prevent another openened ended war in the middle east. do you think theres an appetite in congress for that k...

Were scrambled and went some place else before the air strike, if assad felt like they were at risk, he might have given the order to launch those aircraft. >> right. >> away from that airfield. what im interested in seeing is the bomb damage assessment, as a result of these striking the airfield. >> now, we hear that there were some russian who were there. >> right. >> which, you would say they were complicit -- >> they are complicit. if they are there -- russia owns their relationship with ass...

One step too far. >> yeah. and of course, the big question is, what happens after this? no one knows whats going to happen after this, as you said, russia, a strongly-worded statement, and well have to see what happens in iraq and iran, with everyone in the region. >> and what happens with president trump, if he feels that this has not worked a few months from now? >> all right i, want to go back to wolf blitzer, and you can maybe answer some of those questions. >> our cnn military analyst, colo...

All of his stockpiles of chemical weapons. john kerry issued a statement, i remember it very well, we congratulate all parties in successfully ridding syria -- >> did not do it. >> assad has been dropping chlorine gas since that chemical deal was struck between obama and putin. now he dropped sarin, a nerve agent hes not meant to possess, killing 70 people, which is not going to strategically change the dynamics, its not going to tact tickly change. and all the pages of the newspapers are saying...

Our braking news president trump launches a military strike against syria. firing 59 tomahawk cruise missiles on a syrian air base. peter, were just getting a statement in from a russian official. hed head of the defense committee and federation council. this is according to the russian state news agency. let me read it to you and get your reaction. u.s. strikes on the base may undermine the efforts against the fights in syria. russia will urge a security council meeting after an air strike. is ...

Political response, well find out in the hours to come. we are expecting a very strongly worded statement at the very least, coming from the upper echelons of the russian leadership in the hours ahead, wolf. >> yeah, im sure well get that statement, probably sooner rather than later. well see if its only a statement. matthew chance in moscow for us. thank you very much. don, its very interesting that this new american president has now done, with the launching of these missile strikes against sy...

Fareed, russias said there is going to be a reaction, but we dont know what. >> i think russia said theyre going to provide a statement rell acting. >> strongly-worded statement. >> but i think, you know, in some ways this reminds us that international relations is really about hard core facts on the ground. you know, theres a tendency, particularly in america to assume that international affairs is a kind of branch of psycho therapy, that if you have these two guys and they get on well and they...