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Military leaders are here in washington. thats general votel in charge of centcom. secretary mattis. the military side is fully staffed up on this. they just dont have the state department counterparts to make sure that the military action is balanced with diplomacy. >> the suite of options that you just referenced what do we know about the range of options were talking about here? >> when the pentagon looks at military options, they think in terms of effects, assets they have out there the abil...

This as sort of a prelude to what were doing in north korea. if we put our chips on the table with the t-lams, lets use diplomacy in a powerful and assertive way to shape this problem and rem solve it without more destruction. >> thank you all very much tonight. next, more breaking nutsz at this moment. the possibility of a major white house shake you have. this is breaking at this moment. well get you the very lightest on what were laerg on that as our reporters break this. also coming up later...

Our allies, we didnt ask, we notified. by the way, we just launched some t-lams and were letting you guys know. i would imagine that assad in advance of this scrambled his aircraft, his fixed-wing aircraft and got them off the runway. so we achieved or objectives to act. we did not degrade in any substantial way assads ability to execute something like this again. >> when you look at the video, what is happening here? >> that tells me that the navys doing its job. those are tomahawks being launc...

Helicopters. i suggest the fixed aircraft left. >> if you telegraph russia, it is a chance that russia alerted them. >> yes. >> we have russian state tv of the aftermath. what do you dont see? >> i dont see the runway crater. >> i dont either. >> t-lams. cruise missiles dont have the ability to crater the runway. you can create damage and rough stuff up. the concrete facilities can be damaged. you can soften them with a single hit. >> it was disabled for the time being or could have gone farther...

If we were to putn man to aircraft, thats a significant endeavor. >> and would have involved russia too a lot of ground to air defenses of airs. >> absolutely and that was the purpose of this deconfliction process. that was critical, so t-lams were important. if you want it to go through the upper right wind doe dodow of g thats where it will go. >> the ships are fast but still takes time to get them places. what do we have and where? >> as matter of routine we have ships in the mediterranean

Gentlemen having you in the studio is a big benefit to us. lets talk and what happened. what was used? what do we know about what happened? >> the two destroyers, these were destroyers were just off the coast, they launched 59 cruise missiles, t-lams, tomahawks and land at the airfield. thats where the chemical attack arg originated from. there were rotary aircraft routinely stationed there. this was kind of in the middle of nowhere so we didnt have the collateral damage concerns as a result of ...

Action now, the previous state of play is putin is doing everything and -- is on his heels. thats changed. >> for five minutes of t-lams. >> for this process, a huge russian red line, its not about did we strike one thing or ten things, its about what theyre view of international law in the sovereignty of states and this is extential for putin, they felt burned for libya, now were attacking syria. they see that as a challenge to international relations that you cant attack unless you have some s...

We havent struck the chemical weapons themselves, for example. the t-lams that hit the airfield, by tomorrow morning theyll have filled up the holes with gravel. i dont really understand exactly how weve impeded assad here, and i dont know other than making a big statement, you know, we talked about north korea. this is not a real impact to assad. i think it is messaging, sure. it is messaging that we can do something, but i dont know that that something has achieved the goal that the president ...

T-lams. if you take out runways they can be repaired in a couple of days. this bomb was symbolic. it was not a powerful military blow. it was a sign that the united states is engaged, that we object to the use of chemical weapons and that we could do nor and of course we could do more. heres the other thing. apparently we talked to the russians and the russians didnt use their modern air defense systems. theyve got systems that might be able to interfere with our t-lams. weve never seen the air ...