changes i go the same way. i don t change. well, i do change. and i am flexible and i m proud of that flexibility. and i will tell you that attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. big impact. that was a horrible, horrible thing. pete: flexible and unpredictable indeed. here to react is former white house security staff under george w. bush and turner. karl higg buy, national security analyst for the ryan project and former cia officer brian dean wright. we have all sides coughed. cia, republicans and democrats. jillian, i want to go to you first. your initial reaction to these strikes overnight. well, i think that this sent a clear signal not only to the assad regime but to its main sponsors on the ground, ie the russia and iranian regimes and at the end of the day the biggest success here is really not tactical, it s more strategic. it s going to give us
which stoned american allies and american enemies? pete: that s right joining us now is richard newton and fox news military analyst colonel david hunt. they are both joining us live to react. what signal does this send? is this a new red line we are willing to enforce? good morning, pete. i think it reinforces certainly america is back. not only in the region to globally as well. we have a president who says, you know, states u.s. national security objectives and then if you cross his red line, he will act decisively and disciplined and measured way. it speaks not only to our allies and the friends in the region but globally as well. steve: what s your headline regarding the strike on syria last night? message sent. we launched 60 tomahawk missiles very effectively out of the mediterranean at a specific small airfield but
talking to us about congress men and women who were not in favor of this decision necessarily because the president didn t go to them first to get authorization and said it is unlawful? the president has to have the ability to rapidly respond to situations like this. and part of the criticism is based in the falsehood that this has no national security need behind it. and the reason it s a falsehood because that air base in syria has been linked to hezbollah and the iranian revolutionary guards corps tsmght appears a threat to the united states to have an air base with the chemical weapons capabilities with hezbollah killed more americans than anyone else and more likely to kill americans again. clearly a strike targeted at a facility used for chemical bombing. give us the next 24, 48 hours. who do you we want to this progress and how will syria and russia try react. we will be speaking very closely and quickly with putin and other folks in the russian government. we re going to