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Because in that strike we gave the president gave a little bit of warning before he conducted that strike. it was less than a couple of hours. right now, you now have a warning where russian air defense systems can be turned on, people can prepare, bases can be unmanned, so you have a whole lot different perspective, and plus, if you send a man strike in, you would have to send in not only the bombers and the fighters but youd also have to send in the jammers to make sure those russian air defen...

The tomahawk strike that he took out a month ago would send a clear signal to assad to stop using chemical weapons against his people. clearly if what theyre saying last night is true, his tomahawk strike did not act as a deterre deterrent. as we lob more missiles into syria, as we put more u.s. troops inside syria, we are locking those people into that humanitarian catastrophe. if we were allowing people to flee and helping refugees and get to jordan and lebanon and bringing them to the united ...

Administration is showing strength as opposed to what we saw with president obama and his lack of action. >> bret: the reason that i say its bluster likely, they are looking at the turkish situation where the turks shot down a russian fighter jet. couple weeks later, russia and turkey were a-ok. >> when we did the tomahawk strike on the airbase, the russians said we are ending cooperation appeared we are going to have a free-for-all in the skies. didnt happen. the cooperation continued. nonethel...

According to a senior defense official, coalition air strikes targeted probe regime units operating in the vicinity of an airbase in the south of syria after a show of force to try to stop that probe regina forces was ignored, a coalition commander took the decision to hit regina -- probe regina sources and a "well-established conviction zone" peered the coalition commander assessed the threat then afterward shows of force did not stop the regime forces and those forces refused to move out of th...

Issue. only the u.s. has the power to help. >> there was a real sense that last weeks tomahawk strike at a genuine effect on the strength, at least from geopolitical standpoint. on the ground, the battle is as brutal as ever. >> new mexico invention, thank you. the top man at the pentagon says there is no doubt syrias government was behind it. defense secretary jim mattis has issued a warning. good evening, jennifer. >> defense secretary mattis stop short of blaming anyone other than the syrian ...

Only the u.s. has the power to help. >> there was a real sense that last weeks tomahawk strike at a genuine effect on the strength, at least from geopolitical standpoint. on the ground, the battle is as brutal as ever. >> new mexico invention, thank you. the top man at the pentagon says there is no doubt syrias government was behind it. defense secretary jim mattis has issued a warning. good evening, jennifer. >> defense secretary mattis stop short of blaming anyone other than the syrian regime ...

Russia knew in advance. the reason on friday we were told by these two senior military commanders in the wake of the tomahawk strike that they were investigating russias possible involvement with the chemical weapons attack is that there were several pieces of circumstantial evidence. for one, there were 12 to 100 russians based at that air base where chemical weapons had been stored in the past and where they believed, the u.s. government believed, that the attack on that village that took plac...

Like this. its inexplicable to thinking what on earth they could be doing. that all led to the response by the united states and president trump ordering the strike on syrias chemical we pops and obviously some bases and other materials inside that country. heres what sean spicer had to say about russia and that particular attack. >> i think that if you look at the countries that are with us, it speaks loudly the number of countries that have stood shoulder to shoulder with this president. russi...

Destruction proliferation and usage. >> bill: last point. an extraordinary think to see how quickly international matters come to the forefront because the previous administration had a much different approach to it. now you see this white house putting its foot forward in so many ways. >> shannon: the obama era in america foreign policy is over and it ended with the tomahawk strike at the end of last week. more to do to be sure but i think the administration now needs to focus particularly on w...

>> good evening from the syrian border. weve been speaking today to people who survived a brutal chemical attacks. weve been asking them how they feel about trumps tomahawk strike.