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Weapons. we'll defend the international standard against chemical use. eric: that was u.n. ambassador nikki haley. the regime they say is using cluster bombs and chlorine attacks. the u.n. the u.s. accusing bashar al-assad continuing to kill his own people on a scale that is unimaginable all with the blessing and help of vladimir putin and the russian government. former ambassador to the u.n. john bolton joins us. putin is really is block every move of the united nations and

People again with more chemical weapons? what do you do? that might mean that perhaps another military strike happens. but he wanted to make it clear he is not considering ground troops right now in syria. he is not considering in and having a long entanglement battle there. you can say that. if assad keeps crossing the red line what happens next? it is an open question what the strategy is longer team. >> bill: the u.n. concluded assad used chemical weapons eight times in 2017 alone to varying degrees and what james mattis described yesterday as chlorine attacks. but now you get to this quest...

Chemical attack and potentially trigger a u.s. response zbls which brings us back around to spicer getting in verbal limbo yesterday on this subject of barrel bombs. barrel bombs are so often dropped containing chlorine gas so it gedepends on your definitn of an actual chemical target is. >> when the secretary of defense says we've assessed several chemical weapons attacks and my colleague asks that follow-up questions, you think the chlorine attacks, i believe there's one, two in late march, count as chemical attacks and here the secretary of defense, those we have assessed to be chemical att...

Have to do something, and so i think a punitive air strike, a limited punitive air strike that seeks targets very carefully, targets linked of course to what the syrians did -- so either units or actual aircraft that were responsible makes a lot of sense. look, as ayman just said, there have been nine chemical attacks just in the first three months of this year alone by the regime. but most of them were deemed to be chlorine attacks. so this sarin gas -- it looks like sarin gas, and it's pretty bad. and i think the president had a visceral and a proper reaction to it, which was outrage. >> oka...

Watched it happen, while we have the chemical weapons to some degree removed, but there are allegations of chlorine attacks, which are chemical attacks, which are not covered by this so-called agreement. it is -- i can't tell you how it breaks my heart to see us continue to sit by and watch the syrian people slaughtered not just by bashar assad, who was going to lose before hezbollah came in. this has turned into a regional conflict and a tragedy of monumental proportions, for which we will pay a heavy price for decades to come. >> there's a huge and growing al qaeda presence in syria right no...