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Syrias ability to research and employ chemical weapons. it will result in a setback for the syrian regime. jesse: this is more than a deterrent strike. you send a message, morally we are not going to accept this. but this was a degradation strike. they were hitting research and development facility, chemical and buy lodg -- and biological . >> we hitter part of the puzzle. we hit the research capacity and the chemical storage facility. we hit the weapons storage facility and the manufacturing on...

Syrias ability to research and employ chemical weapons. it will result in a setback for the syrian regime. jesse: this is more than a deterrent strike. you send a message, morally we are not going to accept this. but this was a degradation strike. they were hitting research and development facility, chemical and buy lodg -- and biological . >> we hitter part of the puzzle. we hit the research capacity and the chemical storage facility. we hit the weapons storage facility and the manufacturing on...

The obama era, during this time when the president almost conducted similar military strikes to try to punish assad for using chemical weapons in 2013. instead, an agreement was cut with the russians to get rid of the chemical weapons. were we, in hindsight, was the obama administration extraordinarily naive that the russians would do this? did you guys know then that they were hiding chemical weapons at the time, when they claimed they were destroying them? >> the ability to reconstitute the ch...

From state tv. im not naive enough to think that syrian state tv is the litmus test of the entire syrian population given how divided it is. give us a sense of how are the air strikes that we saw this weekend, how are they likely to be received in syria across the political divide? >> if you are a syrian who supports bashar al assad youre celebrating this weekend. you saw those scenes in the street. not only because he really survived this unscathed but because its fair to say that even if you t...

Likely to respond to these air strikes? we have the video there of the last time you met with him. you know his mindset better than any of us on set. how do you think he is going to view these strikes and respond? >> look, i mean, he had russian backing before. hes got it now. that plus iranian backing is what props him up. i dont see where he would perceive this as being any great setback to him. or, necessarily, cause him to change his calculus, which is the only justification for the raid its...

Is possible that it could setback a number of years. they did not want to go into what substance was used. that was important. nikki haley says the u.s. and france have quote, analyzed the situation, the substance frankly if you heard her at the state capital before before the last meeting be there and also we heard from u.s. officials that substances may have been detected and mixture of chlorine, too. it is important. is syrian use of what caused the military to response or chlorine thats used...

Institute tyson barker writes about american politics and by york of a weiss writer and journalist on the middle east thanks to both of you for coming in if we could start with you weve been seeing crowds celebrating on the streets of damascus and other cities in syria what are they celebrating do a bit of that this is a place where you cannot go as an independent journalist im not sure exactly what the sort of breakthrough celebrating the state the poet and this is because not the thought in th...

Important that they said we will do more if we have to. and that sends a signal to bashar al-assad as well. >> this morning we are trying to hit every single angle for you we are going to stay on it pentagon laying out the difference between last nights air strikes against syria, and last years operations. >> last year we conducted a unilateral strike upon a single site this evening we conducted strikes two allies multiple sites that 8 result in long term degradation of syrias cable research dep...

Storage facility and an important command post. u.s., british, and naval air forces were involved in the operation. i wont be more specific this evening. before we take questions, i would like to address how this evenings strike were qualitatively and quantitatively different than 2015. this evening, we conducted strikes with two allies on multiple sites the that will result in a long-term degradation of syrians capability to deploy chemical and biological weapons. important infrastructure was d...

By air force bombers and fighter jets. joseph dunford discussed the targets that were selected. >> we conducted strikes with two allies that result in long-term degradation in syrias capability to research and deploy chemical and biological weapons. important infrastructure was destroyed which will result in a setback for the syrian regime. they will lose years of research and developing data, specialized equipment and chemical weapons precursors. this was a strong message to the regime that the...