A spokesman tries to down play the dispute and its impact on trumps agenda. Is this shakeup avoidable . A United Airlines passenger forcibly dragged off the plane after refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked flight. How could this happen . Were going to tell you what the airline is now saying. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Tonight, the white house is raising the spector of another u. S. Flight in syria. Spicer suggesting a barrel attack by the regime that might also cross a red line for President Trump like the deadly chemical attack did last week. The administration walking back that mark a bit insisting there is no change in policy. This is only adding to the confusion as top officials have been sending mixed signals about the president s syrian strategy. Also tonight, new concerns that north korea could launch a sixth nuclear test at any moment. Kim jonguns regime vowing to accelerate the Weapons Program as u. S. Aircraft Carrier Strike group moves closer to the Korean Peninsula and President Trump explorees a full range of options to combat the north korean threat. Here at home, the president is celebrating a needed political win with neil gorsuch now sworn in as u. S. Supreme Court Justice at the same time the white house is down playing the rift between top president ial adviser steve bannon and Jared Kushner. This after a frustrate pled trump ordered the two men to work out their differents. Aviation Security Officer is put on leave after dragging a passenger off the United Airlines plane because he refused to give up his seat on the overbooked flight. We have new details and stunning video of this incident. This hour, ill talk with the key republican on House Intelligence Committee and Foreign Affairs committee will herd. First to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. Barbara, a new assessment of damage from the syria air strike and a lot of uncertainty about what happens next. Good evening, wolf. The pentagon today saying there was destruction at all of the targets they hit but they didnt offer a lot of details about how much destruction and yes, indeed, a clear signal that there could even be more military action to come. As syrians resume operations at air base the pentagon says the strike resulted in damage or destruction to 20 of syrias Operational Air force as well as damage and destruction to fuel and ammunition sites and air defense capabilities. And confusion about what happens next. Good morning. With the u. N. Ambassador saying one thing about the future of syrias dictator, telling cnn state of the union theres not any sort of option where Political Solutions going to happen with assad at the head of the regime. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson seeming to say another as he heads to russia tillerson emphasizing the Trump White House puts a top priority on fighting isis. We believe that Syrian People will ultimately be able to decide the fate of Bashar Alassad. White house Spokesman Sean Spicer acknowledging both goals. I cant imagine a stable and peaceful syria where ba sar bas alassad is in power. I cant imagine a multipronged approach. The. Tillerson attending g7 meeting in italy says the world cannot stand by and watch. State Department Officials tell cnn yau russia bears responsibility. There is a dossier of responsibility for the nerve action taking shape. According to u. S. Officials, assad either knew about this specific attack or had given commanders Standing Authority to use nerve agent. More chemical sites in western syria likely exists and scientists are still alive who know how to make nerve agent. The u. S. Also looking for direct evidence russian commanders on the ground knew about the planned attack. And tonight there is a full intelligence investigation into exactly that. How much did the russians know and when did they know it . U. S. Officials are saying it was a russian drone that flew over the hospital and where so many injured people fled to try and get care and about five hours after that, russian drone flew an unidentified aircraft dropped another conventional bomb, perhaps trying to destroy evidence of the original chemical attack. But still, they are very much looking what they can definitively say about how involved the russians might have been, wolf. We heard what sean spicer said, barbara, about the damage done to the Syrian Air Force as a result of those 59 tomahawk cruise missiles. What are you hearing from your sources at the pentagon . Well, this is a very interesting question. They are saying that 20 aircraft were damaged or destroyed. Again, not very specific. Could they be repaired . Could they fly again . Could syrians bring in additional aircraft from other areas . Certainly. All of the above. 20 of the Operational Aircraft damage or destroyed would mean that they had 100 aircraft to begin with. Many open source reports indicate perhaps the syrians have more than that. But not really clear, you know, theyve had problems for years with getting spare parts maintenance all of that. So certainly a dent but one of the key things to remember about this u. S. Missile strike, much of the damage caused is repairable and the u. S. Knew that going in. They were not trying to destroy it all, just put a halt to the syrian advance of using chemical weapons. Wolf . We will continue to check that Damage Assessment. We have no independent confirmation. Now to the latest on President Trumps red line in syria and possibility of another u. S. Military strike. Lets go to our senior white house correspondent. You heard White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer creating confusion about the president s socalled red line. He was indeed, wolf, at the White House Press briefing. He was talking in specific terms about what it would take for the u. S. To retaliate and strike again in syria. This is what sean spicer said, then ill explain what he said after this. If you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb in to innocent people, i think you can you will see a response from this president. That is unacceptable. So by saying that, he said if you gas a baby or put a barrel bomb in, but then a short time after that the administration was very worried about drawing a new red line there that is something that would box this administration into a corner if you will here. So Administration Official said sean spicer misspoke. He is not changing policy but barr bombs would not constitute any tieype of action. This is all sort of a larger way of saying that this administration is still figuring out what its red line is and what its policy is because they know of course the Obama Administration is backed into a corner, boxed in if you will, about this red line here. Tonight they are saying that barrel bombs alone simply would not cause the u. S. To act again, wolf. Yeah. The Syrian Regime has been dropping barrel bombs for years. A lot of them. On another issue, the white house is trying to down play reports after serious feud between bannon and kushner. Whats the latest . This something thats been plaguing this administration for most of the last 11 weeks or so. This infighting inside the west wing. On the syria policy it became an issue as well with bannon arguing against strikes last week. Other advisers arguing for it. But this all came to head last week we are told when the president himself directly said, work it out here. So today at the press briefing we asked sean spicer about that comment. Lets watch. It must have crossed a line if he said is it work it out. Sometimes, again, im not going to get into what happens internally. But sometimes it might spill out into the public more than other things but there is always a healthy debate internally on a variety of policy issues among the cabinet, among the staff, to make sure that the president sees every option available. He is very confident in the team that he has. They are an unbelievable amount of knowledge. And he enjoys the counsel that they all bring to the table. It seems the infighting is on hold for now at the moment. Well see how long that lasts of course, here. But the president is trying to get back on track. They are very focused on the first 100 days. We heard the president himself talk about that in the rose garden this morning. The white house is as well. His staff and advisers are. So they are trying to at least eliminate some of this infighting. In the short term it looks like steve bannon will stay. He has the confidence of the president. Jared kushner of course, Senior Adviser and soninlaw, he does as well, wolf. About but there are policy differences as well. We are told they have mended fences and agreed to work on behalf and for the good of this president. We will see how long this lasts, wolf. Good point. Thanks very much, jeff zeleny. Reporting from the wlous. Lets talk more about the president s syria policy. Will herd is joining us. He is a member of the intelligence and Homeland Security committees former clandestine cia officer as well. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. Im always glad to be on, wolf. Happy monday. You said Bashar Alassad should go. How do you think that should be accomplished . And be specific. I think that the missile attacks from a couple of days ago shows that President Trump is willing to use all levers of national power, diplomatic, intelligence, military and economic. We need to be having a diplomatic discussion with the russians and make sure that the russians realize that alassad is a problem for them. Iran kind of signaling support or reaffirmation for is ysupporr alassad. I think one thing that hasnt been talked a lot is that we still have economic tools. We have ability to do sanctions on russia. If they were involved in this chemical weapons attack, there are tools we can use unilaterally but also working to build a coalition of many of our European Partners to put additional pressure on russia to make sure they back away of their support of Bashar Alassad. Were they involved with the syrians in launching that chemical weapons attack that killed all those civilians, including a lot of children . This is what our intelligence sources will be reviewing and look toogt make sure they have a clear understanding of what happened and what did go on. Because i think that their reaffirmation of support is condoning these Chemical Attacks in the future. And i think that is unforgivable and this is something that we cant let stand. But as you know, Trump Administration right now seems to send mixed messages when it come to the future of Bashar Alassad. Is that troubling to you that secretary of state, u. N. Ambassador, White House Press secretary, they are not necessarily all saying the same public things . The word i would use is that their strategy is evolving but they are looking at this from a strategic viewpoint. We often times have to respond to realities on the ground and sometimes that doesnt fit within a larger strategic framework but what the conversations that are going on now, diplomatic engagement that secretary tillerson is doing in the next few day says coming from a position of strength because President Trump has shown and proven that he is willing to use this military tool to deal with Bashar Alassad. The press Secretary Sean Spicer and i quote him if you put a barrel bomb into innocent people then President Trump is going to react. Assad has been using barrel bombs for years. Frequently slaughtering people with the carnage has been awful but does this signal to you a new red line . They seem to walk that back later in the day. I think it signifies that they are thinking about it and this is a potential part of strategy that outlines how we would respond militarily to what assad and the russians do within syria. We have to remember that there is a refugee problem from syria because of Bashar Alassad. There is an isis problem in syria because Bashar Alassad created the civil war which created the vacuum that allowed isis to come in. But Bashar Alassad needs to go. In toward preveorder to prevent terrorist group like isis and potentially attacking us and our allies there has to be some level of civility in syria and i dont see any scenario in which Bashar Alassad would be able to provide that level of stability. We heard also from the White House Press secretary also from pentagon officials, they are claiming, we have no independent confirmation of this and tell me what you know, that these 59 tomahawk cruise missiles either destroyed or severely damaged about to of the Syrian Air Force, syrian planes. What do you know about that . Is that true . Well, there was definitely, they are doing a bomb Damage Assessment as we speak. I think the attack was successful. It was restrained and specific and timely and i think we can all walk away saying that was a good move. We also need to be talking about why did assad and forces use chemical weapons in the first place. What were the reality on the ground that assad was responding to and many have talked about how he was concerned about rebel forces approaching and that he was concerned about losing additional grounds to the rebels. So the use of chemical weapons is not necessarily a stroe of strength on behalf of the syrian president but a show of weakness. And the fact that we were able to damage and take out a reason of how assad has been able to repel the rebels is the use of his air force and the use of Russian Air Force as well. I think that is a good thing to happen to talk about having assad leave and rebels being able to take additional ground. I will take a quick break then resume our conversation but have you been told that 20 of the warplanes have been destroyed or severely damaged . 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President trump warned, as you know, that the u. S. Would be prepared to act unilaterally if necessary all options are on the table. Would you support u. S. Unilateral move against north korea . I think we have to reserve all of our tools on the table. That includes a unilateral response. When it comes to north korea, that we would be able tos stapp lish a coalition of other countries that would support the move. We have to remember that it is not just the Missile Program that we have to be worried about when it comes to north korea. They have longrange are a till rif