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Chlorine attacks because it was said to be a red line for the trump administration. >> dana: more on this is william mccraven former commander of the u.s. jointed special operations command. also author of "sea stories:my life in special operations." what a life so far it has been. if we could talk about this news that came out reported today. should we be doing more? he's getting away with everything. >> again, you have to get back to as investigator jeffrey said, we have to be able to prove it. much like the april attack we had using ships off the coast of syria, if in fact he's been using c...

Still make her point that the u.s. maybe should not intervene or just have maybe a more nuanced approach? look, she served in iraq, so she will use that as an example about the things she learned and she'll say the u.s. shouldn't have been there. but why doesn't she make a more nuanced argument about it? >> in 2015, tulsi gabbard tweeted support in aleppo for war crimes. in 2016 she was the only one to vote against the resolution to hold assad accountable for war crimes. she says any discussion of war crimes is a thinly veiled effort by neocong warmongers to justify it. i've argued that's a fa...

Unlike president obama, who when he says something she follows through. it's not just in holding assad accountable for using gas. he's done it in other areas, such as recognizing jerusalem as ilisrael's capital. i think the president helped himself with that. i do think it's important that we not get mired into syria and i don't want the president wants to do that because there's no real victory there given all of the disastrous things that are on the ground there right now that obama basically left president trump. but in terms of the strikes, i think they did what they intended to do. >> duk...

>> first i would hope that the president pushes back on russia as it relates to interference in our domestic affairs especially with our elections. secondly i want to remind everyone that last year the united states conducted what we called precision and surgical strikes because of the issue around assad using chemical weapons against his own people. here we are a year later. we need an international strategy, we need a plan, we need a diplomatic initiative, we need to hold assad accountable, he is a war criminal, and bring him before the international court. until we do that we will be back a...

Obviously informed by what he saw in those horrific images coming out of that chemical attack. this is a very different position that he's now taking with syria than he had in the past. so he did make a very dramatic kind of pivot, if you will, toward syria. it had to be based, you know, based on his reaction from seeing what unfolded and also from the advice of his key advisers. so i think it's probably a little early to go down the path of comparing him to ronald reagan, but i do think it was an emotional response based on what he saw. >> you put out a statement saying the air strike sends a...