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coverage of the breaking news out of the middle east and the u.s. strikes continues with ac 360. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. american-led air strikes in one of the most volatile hot spots in the world right now. mitts is some of the first video of explosions tonight in yemens just north of the capital. iranian backed houthi fighters from yemen have been attacking commercial ships in the nearby red sea. theres been dozens of attacks. tonig...

Interplay here between the u.s., the houthis and saudi arabia. early in the biden administration they announced they would halt support to saudi offensive action in yemen though they would still support the saudis defensively. so the u.s. is very much trying to put that to an end and get that to a cease-fire there that was achieved frankly not all that long ago, 18, 20 months or so. so trying not to upset that here between the houthis and saudi as the u.s., u.k., and others taking part in this s...

As for those chemical weapons, france says this morning, if president assad use s them agai, there will be more military air strikes. >> im going to ask you to stick around with us. im going to bring in hans nichols from the pentagon. i know we are expecting the press conference to get under way for a better assessment of what happens, what was struck, whether it was mission accomplished. help put this in perspective, you have been speaking to sources on the spectrum of potential targets. where ...

Stated objective and the regimes ability to generate offensive military capability from the air field, which we assess was the launching people has been severely degraded. we main appropriately postured as necessary. the campaign is our primary mission. in closing, i want to commend the skill and professionalism of our military forces in the strike operation. they performed extraordinarily well and were proud of them. >> thank you, general votel. we can take your questions now. bob, lets start w...

We assessed that we achieved our stated objective and the regimes ability to generate offensive military capability from shayrat airfield, attempted says was the launching point for this chemical attack and has been severely degraded. we are obviously paying close attention to the environment in the wake of these strikes and remain postured to respond as necessary. meanwhile, we are focused on the defeat isis campaign which remains our primary mission. in closing, i want to commend the exception...

Personnel on the strikes. when the order was received, we targeted the 59 locations and struck 57 of those. we assess that we achieved our stated objective and the regimes ability to generate offensive capabilities from the air field which we assessed was the launching point for this chemical attack has beeny severely degraded. we are paying close attention to the environment and respond as necessary. meanwhile we are focused on the defeat isis campaign. in closing, i want to commend the excepti...

Around the world. i think he is sincere. i think the policy is misguided and i think it will cause blow back. >> it was remarkable how he grappled with that in the public way he hadnt before. what about the specific change in that speech moving the targeted strike operation from the cia more to dod? >> this is interesting. it has been pushed that john brennan is portrayed in some news accounts as this priest like figure and that he and obama are sort of like the jesuits huddled around. they are ...