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Syria's capacity to use such weapons in the future, explain from the military perspective what that suggests to you. >> well, that's a very difficult passage because i think the chances of going after the chemical weapons delivery systems, which were rocket launchers and he's got thousands of them all over the country, we're going after the weapons themselves will probably be too difficult to do. the chemical weapons are a valuable asset for the syrian regime. they got them stored in very hardened facilities that a cruise missile won't be able to do. you need bunker busters for that. or if the...

From the military perspective what that suggests to you. >> well, that's a very difficult passage because i think the chances of going after the chemical weapons delivery systems, which were rocket launchers and he's got thousands of them all over the country, we're going after the weapons themselves will probably be too difficult to do. the chemical weapons are a valuable asset for the syrian regime. they got them stored in very hardened facilities that a cruise missile won't be able to do. you need bunker busters for that. or if they lovmovlovemove them different locations. they spent years ...

From the military perspective what that suggests to you. >> well, that's a very difficult passage because i think the chances of going after the chemical weapons delivery systems, which were rocket launchers and he's got thousands of them all over the country, we're going after the weapons themselves will probably be too difficult to do. the chemical weapons are a valuable asset for the syrian regime. they got them stored in very hardened facilities that a cruise missile won't be able to do. you need bunker busters for that. or if they move them to different locations. they spent years digging...

Of these assets into civilian areas? >> well, we have to decide what we want to do. if you want to go after the chemical warfare capabilities, that's going to be very, very difficult, especially with the land attack missiles that are on these cruisers, these destroyers. they're very effective weapons, but they're not bunker busters. they won't be able to hit the hardened sites. they're great for taking out air defense. if we were going to mount some sort of a combined campaign where we would be using land-based aviation to drop bunker busters, hardened bombs, we could use the tomahawks to less...

It? >> rand paul. >> paul rand, yes. it was a beautiful sight. now they think fill a busters are good because of that. >> when you're talking about politicians that, you know, an issue that is important to ted cruz and mike lee and rand paul may not represent the party more broadly and what we are seeing a number of republican senators are saying that's not for me, not for me. >> simple minded republican, can you please? >> i didn't mean to do a label, mark. i know you're no label. i'm so sorry. >> this issue is -- it brings out all sides in us. >> it does. you have to understand a lot of repu...