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Him from doing this again. >> reporter:-shortly after these horrific videos emerged of an april 7th chemical weapons attack in a damascus suburb that the pentagon began planning for military strikes. the target list, a chemical research center in damascus and two chemical weapons in equipment storage facilities located west of homes. the pentagon said there were no reports of civilian casualties and all the military objectives for this strike were achieved. >> i believe we took the heart of it o...

This plan applies here. we are getting preliminary. he is talking about explosions what appears to be a research facility. on top of that the air base to the south of the capitol has also been hit. it is said to have been a place out of which the iran military has been hit this target list slowly growing. there is a possibility we may not be seeing the political tear in this. they had a week to get themselves to dofrcover. >> what is so difficult about syria is just the level of action the u.s. ...

Their way. weve heard accounts of salon and syrian officials saying that as many as 70 of the 110 or so may have been knocked out of the sky. thats never going to occurred if its true three syrian offenses which would suggest that russias more sophisticated air defenses may have been involved in all of this. we simply wont ever get to the bottom of the truth about this. i think were waiting for the pentagon to give their side of how many missiles successfully went through. much of today has been...

Frankly passionately about all of this. it is bar ba richl and brutality. >> i laid out last night the target list. i havent talked to anybody in the administration, i said if there is going to be a attack to deter the use of chemical weapons by the syrians it had to be more than a one off like last april. and it clearly looks like it will hit economic target and take out command and control in damascus. and first stakeout, and surface to air missiles which the russians put in. and further to th...

Able to fire from a distance and not be over the airspace, over air defenses and lets not forget those air defenses in syria including some that the russians have brought in. jeremy stand by and thank you. hans nichols is standing by, our correspondent at the pentagon. were going to try to patch in some syria tv, 5:29 a.m. there. their coverage is coming on the air. we heard initial reports, you were getting them, too, of explosions in the south, east, and west of damascus. having heard the targ...

Attack. how do you rate the u.s. response so far? >> it has been lethargic and to use a bad pun, the president shot himself in the foot because he got ahead of the policy process through the tweets. the tweets are considered to be official u.s. policy. he telegraphed the fact we would be striking with these smart missiles. we didnt have our ducks in a row. we hadnt gone through a process of consulting with allies or not gone through the process to identify a target list or the tools we were goin...

Possible consequences of the options should be. >> do you think they are essentially boxed in, or their hand is forced by the tweet that he sent, get ready russia. there is no option now but to strike. it is just a matter of how broadly and when. >> exactly. it is going to be not only how broadly and when, but also what set of targets. and those kinds of things that have to be hammered out in great detail in order to be effective. the target list that is done in a situation like this has to be p...

Accounts. more meetings across washington about what they want to do. what would a target list look like? do you want to just go for the same kinds of targets as you did a year ago, air fields, do you want to go after the chemical weapons, that could cause civilian casualties. mattis, we know, is concerned about that. do you want to go for a broader set of targets that could involve the russians? obviously a good deal of concern. and, still, secretary mattis publicly, again, yesterday, saying th...

Military police but they are ahead of the fact-finding team.s that gives rise to the suspicioy that they could manipulate the evidence ahead of the inspectors. sean? >> sean: mike tobin in israel. thank you, sir. joining us now with more t reaction, the host of "war stories," colonel oliver north is with us. when you see that russia pulled out their ships, there is obviously anticipation of af strike. moscows threats of shooting american missiles out of the sky. a do you believe thats a possibil...

Facilities that sent those orders or the aircraft that does that and change the military balance between israel and syria, it will be seen as a failure. >> colonel jacobs, same question. whats the mission? whats the objective? what in your view should the target list include? >> well, weve got targets, and we can pick among a wide variety of targets. but you and malcolm hit on the quintessential first-order question, and that is what is the objective? this is not regime change, and its not even ...