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Firstly, however much damascus has tried to make this look like this hasnt been much pain to them, they probably can still launch chemical weapons attacks, they probably have a few angry phone calls from their russian and iranian backers here. frankly, that war was continuing in their favor and they were kicking rebels out of ghouta, barbaric as their tactics were. the use of international weapons brought the international community to do one thing they hadnt done for months, and that is stand u...

American or british and also french forces. >> french -- as nick indicated, the french have been forward-leaning on this and also back in 2013 when there were chemical weapons attacks. we just got a communic e from the president in the last hour, about 3:45 in the morning here and the president said that db confirms theyve joined and also confirmed what you have been talking about, that this action will be limited to syrian regime forces that are involved with the production and delivery of chem...

Victims showing signs of asphyxiation. also forming at the mouth and something called meiosis which is when you get pinpoint pupils, hallmark symptoms of sarin gas poisoning. using a gas canister there on that bed. they are saying that the barrel bombs that were used some are still intact, they are consistent with past syrian weapons attacks. they also sent a helicopter was hovering over douma in the attack. and the vice president who was traveling for the summit of the americas it says the upse...

Come weapons attacks there. do you get a sense from what has taken place and what youre hearing that it will do exactly that, that it will stop these chemical attacks from the assad regime? >> its hard to know at this stage. it might. it is sending a message to russia and to assad that there is a price to be paid and there could be future prices to be paid for using chemical womenea. it is also sending a message that the united states is not interested in regime change, does not want to pick a f...

Putting down of the rebel group that is are trying to cling on. lets be very clear about this, chemical attacks are a horrible, vicious thing. every single day, assad, with the russian backing are rolling these out on top of civilians. thats not going to change. >> there were chemical weapons attacks that did not draw a response. great for your insight on that. the president launched these attacks. we are going to have more on that when our coverage continues right after this quick break. stay w...

Navy seal who took out usama bin laden. and michael waltz. welcome to both of you. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: i want to plea about what the president said about who is responsible and where to go next. >> we are getting clarity about who was responsible for the weapons attacks and we are getting some very good clarity. we have some pretty good answer answers. >> we have a lot of options military. well be letting you know pretty soon. probably after the fact. >> shannon: rob, how much mor...

And two person teams. in israel we started to see individual weapons attack where a person would just pick up a kitchen knife, and then we saw these vehicles as weapons attacks. israel suffered over 60 attacks like this in the last few years and isis got on to that strategy and inspired their followers to get a vehicle and carry out these mass murders. we can put up bare cased and little things, but you cannot protect against just anyone getting into their mind that theyre going to carry it out....

In action than he is in rhetoric. and i also think that the cabinet, the national security cabinet, is extraordinarily calm, cautious, and deliberative. and thats a great thing in a crisis like north korea. >> kori schake, appreciate your expertise on this program. theres been a lot of talk today about weapons attacks. but what about acoustic attacks. have you heard about this one? americans working at the embassy in cuba forced to return home in one of the most bizarre stories of the day. at pa...

>> and that has always been the nexus. thats the one thing that has not really been attacked. and the muslim world is only just starting to do that. the west has been leaning on weapons attacks and bombings, which creates more terrorists, rather than going hard after the religious -- fake religious basis of these islamic cults. >> it is an apocalyptic death cult, not just a cult. >> absolutely. >> thats why it is hard for westerners to empathize and get their head -- >> what do you mean by that?...

For attackers to take up what they call the self-starting jihad or jihad in place. dont come to a battle zone. stay at home. use some of the simplest tools you have. they took these tactics from the palestinians, which we call suicide individual weapons attacks. thats where youick up a hammer, a knife, a kitchen knife, and what you do is come out and you deliberately attack a soldier or a policeman and try to kill that individual, then wait to be killed. we also saw them develop the vehicle as w...