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Voluntary medical teams to Suppt Hospitals in the white house responng to irans Foreign Minister saying no other regional actors to exploit the situation in gaza. Iran previously said gaza strikes could cause the war to expand. [sirens] also new today, sirens in tel aviv as you can hear sending they came under hamas rocket fire. Israel also reported taking rocket fire in the Southern City of surat while israeli strikes are pounding along the gaza strip. [sound of gunfire] that video showing an e...

US military presence there has morphed into a low-level forever war as Bashar al-Assad rejoins regional fold

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Think was the right decision, but a decision in a complex regime that needs to have a sense of a plan and policy, and a clarity, and thats what worries me is that hes over his head. >> go ahead. >> christine, if you agree with what he did, which is something obama failed to do when he said that there was a line in the sand -- >> and the very same people who were applauding trump criticized obama. >> give him grace -- thats okay. give him the grace that he made the right decision here. he has ver...

Out of this. i mean, we have clarity. we have more clarity about one point, that the trump administration will act militarily to uphold infect the civilizational red line against the use of chemical weapons. thats a good thing. what we dont have is a lot more clarity about their larger term objective. their clearer implication, as you know, chris, the president said at points that he was willing to work with assad and russia to focus on isis. i think after this its pretty clear that that idea of...

Administration, but saying completely different things. >> doesnt that tell you its not cemented yet? >> theres nosyria. if you have not figured out a few steps yet, i understand youre not going to necessarily with the situation as complex as syria, figure out a to z, but one hopes we had beyond a, right? at least we -- but if you dont know, dont talk. what good does it do the american people in a scary time to here the international leaders of the united states say different things and help our...

Syria. that strike against that air base did not destroy the base. it was not meant to. dont use chemical weapons. that air base in syria now by all accounts up and running again, syria war planes again attacking assads own people. >> you raise the the right questions including this one, how is north korea responding to all of this? cnns will ripley is live in north korea, the only american network in that country. will? >> reporter: the north koreans are certainly receiving the message that pre...

>> asking and calling on assad to cease of use of the weapons. other than that, no change to the military posture. >> if he goes against civilians no matter what weapons he uses? >> the president makes whatever decision he thinks is in the best interest of the american people. >> okay. lets discuss this with former new york city counsel speaker christine quinn. matt, starting with you. >> sure. >> matt, do you know what president trumps strategy is in. >> no. i wont spin you here. look at the th...

And its now monday as opposed to thursday night, isnt it clear what they set out to do on thursday with the bombing of that airfield, was it mission accomplished? >> yes. >> they said in the message no chemical weapons and thats it. there is no greater strategy because for all the reasons everybody articulated, its tough. too hard. chemical weapons is the line. beyond that, what are we looking for? >> no, i agree. the clarity was sending the clear message that they would respond when assad cross...

He said the use of chemical weapons is something we cant tolerate. >> basically to your mine today, that was a one and done? that was a one and done solution, assad used chemical weapons. that crossed the line. we sort of bombed the airfield, sort of, although on saturday, assad was back to bombing his innocent civilians, so thats it. >> yeah. i guess i look at it this way, which air strikes are only so effective, alison. presidents like to use them because they seem tidier, but at the end of th...