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Today the bill for defending nato should not be sent to the united states. the nato allies should share their burden is where the n american people are. that needs to be communicated clearly to the allies. russia itself has an economy somewhere between that of italy or spain. not italy and spain. but they have a military capable of threatening all of europe. what we need to see from our european counter parts, investment in real capabilities. we have deployed our forces to help counter the aggressiveness of russia along the border. they need to look at real c capabilities, ground capabilities,...

>> first off, the president articulating 30 years ago and today the bill for defending nato should not be sent to the united states. the nato allies should share their burden is where the american people are. that needs to be communicated clearly to the allies. russia itself has an economy somewhere between that of italy or spain. not italy and spain. but they have a military capable of threatening all of europe. what we need to see from our european counter parts, investment in real capabilities. we have deployed our forces to help counter the aggressiveness of russia along the border. they n...

Manpower, enough personnel there to deal with all of this? i suppose you could use more assets? how are things going on that end? >> yeah, jim. we're down here supporting the state of texas, the federal emergency management agency. speaking specifically to the coast guard. you mentioned a number 18. we have 18 helicopters in houston right now. obviously, different cycles and pla maintenance to keep them in the air. flying about 12. additional helicopters coming into the area tomorrow. we have the lion's share of coast guard operational helicopters from across the country down here flying in is...

Strikes. this is degrading it is not eliminating as far as we know air capabilities in syria which as you know bashar assad has used to degrade barrel bombs and all manner of atrocities over the last months. >> first of all fr, in is a significant step. i am telling you this is the area from which those chemical attacks were launched. it's the place you were going to see future attacks come from particularly targeting innocent civilians and in area they felt they were losing territory. there's a message to this, but it is more than just messaging. this achieved a strategic objective and it's a...

Co come. >> from your understanding 50 to 65 tomahawk missiles targeting one base that can do significant damage. in a case like this, how much intelligence would the u.s. actually have about what kind of aircraft are still on the grouped, what kind of weapon systems are on the ground in terms of how effective this would be in to use senator rubio's term degrading the air capabilities, the future air capabilities of bashar el assad. >> reporter: this is a small air base. i've been to this base in my tour in syria. this is not a big installation. it's got two runways. it has two squadron areas