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But something theyre keeping an eye on. >> ryan browne, well check back with you at about 4:00 a.m. thank you. for world reaction, lets turn to chief international correspondent, christiane amanpour live in london. the syrian army in effect saying the u.s. is now a partner with is isis. whats your reaction to their statement? >> look, its nonsense, isnt it. but its what you expect to come out of syria. more interestingly is that the government of hons has been quoted on syrian television or me...

All of the things that make the airfield operational. the military shared with us information that they said linked this airfield to the chemical weapons strikes earlier this week, including tracking data for some of the aircraft, they believe dropped the chemical munitions in question. this is evidence that really drove them to hit this airfield with the intention of disabling it. >> we know yesterday, ryan, that the president was at mar-a-lago, having dinner with president xi. earlier in the d...

Retaliation. >> mohammed lila and ryan browne. lets bring in general manager ca macaulay, we start with you. does this appear to be a more limited strike out of all of the options that the president was given from the pentagon? >> certainly, what we saw from the pentagon, was what could be called a balanced and measured strike. a decision made to execute this appropriate response within a very limited timeframe. the real question that comes up, this was a demonstration of american resolve. but t...

Theyre fighting mostly the civil wans and the moderate opposition. but whats important is that the president of the united states took the commander in chief decision, in violation of international law and the use of weapons of mass destruction. its not the first time that syria has done it. but the first time that assad has been punished for it. it was a deterrent, as far as ryan is reporting and others from the fog, a one-off, retaliated for this strike. and response from u.s. allies has been ...

Allies. >> what about from russia? we spoke with matthew chance a minute ago. there were russians on that base. that is a facility theyve invested in and have used. that could be incredibly dangerous to have any kind of russian loss of life or any, you know, russian blowback if something were to gone wrong. >> i think youre right. had russia been targeted, it would have been dangerous. had russian personnel been killed even accidentally, it would have risen the stakes dramatically. had russian h...

The assad regime staying in power. lets say good morning to ryan browne. have we learned anything more of the effectiveness of the strikes? >> were waiting to hear information about what the military calls battle assessment. they were tone overnight, that allows for fewer personnel to be caught up in the strikes. one of the objectives was to minimize the casualties. it makes an assessment of how effective the strike was. take more time. they need some light to conduct the surveillance to assess ...

Explosives material. so thats the real threat. not just that technology is out there. the u.s. has incredible technology to detect these types of devices but overseas not understanding or not knowing the type of technology they have, obviously, intelligence at this level has pushed the u.s. to act, meaning in this way so that ultimately we can get our arms around where these threats are coming from. >> paul schmick and ryan browne, thank you. straight ahead. we know theyre rich, but how much d...

Exposes. this is something of tremendous concerns of the intelligent community. they note that these terror groups are sharing information potentially and al-qaida and yemen is considered particularly sophisticated and development of explosives. they have done non-metallic liquid explosives in the past and transport of airlines. last year we saw explosives that was in the dvd treay. this new intelligence says they have the ability to scan it help top the laptop ban. thank you ryan browne. >> up ...

These non metallic bombs. they had printer cartridges where they had bombs hid in there. they attempted this before this group and the concern is now they maybe sharing this know how with other terrorist groups in the region like al-qaida and syria or isis. this is prompting the particular threat to be looked up of intelligence officials. can we expect any changes in the airline screening process or airport screening process here in the u.s. any time soon. >> officials told cnn that they are fai...

And tempting to bait the coalition into striking the buildings and then using the public outcry as a kind of propaganda tool to deter further strikes. now, its a very contested battle space there in mosul in the older part of the city. very tightly congested. theres very narrow streets and the battles raging quite fiercely. the coalition in one week alone were told dropped about 700 munitions from aircraft and launched about 400 artillery strikes. so its a very intense battle space. so this is s...