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General, never mind their deployed strength in syria, they are very unlikely to want to take us on in direct combat. they may well now have to think through i wonder if we ought to walk away from assad. i cannot imagine -- theyre on the wrong side of this argument, by the way. theyre supporting a shiite minority presence inside syria. theyre alying themselves with iranian guards, hezbollah, militia. theyre on the wrong side of this fight. there are a lot of sunni muslims in the world particularl...

Be any kinds of an action back, any kind of retaliatory strike by assad? that is something that could inflict then further u.s. military action. we just dont know that. we are kind of waiting to see the second and third order effects of this as the military would say. right now, we think this was -- this was the response. you know its wrapped up tonight. and now we just have to see what the reaction is. >> courtney kube our producer at the pentagon whose reporting led the way for so much of what...

Derive as a result of this raid. as the cfo of isis i think its fair to call him that in charge of all the oil and gas revenue, were going to be able to dig into all the records, all the documents and figure out what those sources of revenue are. and everyone who is on that list now, needs to have their head on the swivel. because the united states and our partners have this information it now becomes targetable and well follow up very quickly. we need to. >> general hertling, the intelligence t...

Inthats inthats not the way they function michael. you have to go after networks. interesting to spider and i when we hear somebody say nobody knew who this guy was. special operation command or in a computer in a fusion cell somewhere not only abu sayyaf who is relatively popular among special operators, this is a good hit and a lot of people knew who he was who are wearing the uniform, but multiple other ones just like him. a target package being basically built on this guy, probably for month...

To prepare options to deter and degrade and that would mean targets directly linked to the control of chemical weapons but without exposing those chemical weapons to a loss of security. and means of delivery. those things that the regime uses for example air defense, long range missiles and rockets in order to protect those chemical weapons or in some cases deliver them. that target package is still being refined as i sit here with you. as far as whether it will be effective given the limited ob...