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Some of the newest video we've gotten in of at least one area, the barza district in damascus where there is research and development and stockpies, we understand -- stockpiles, we understand, based on intel. this is the damage being done. we may not have full scope of what was successfully struck here. but colonel, when you look at the damage that's been done, if you don't get all of the chemical weapons out of syria in one fell swoop, do you not risk them being used again? >> the purpose of this as colonel davis says was to send a message. the message was not only sent to the syrians, the me...

Attacked by their own leader. why would assad act in this way? we have our leaders on the record saying they're convinced it was him, that he acted. france and the uk are saying the same. >> and let me give president trump credit where it's due. on the one hand, he's constantly being beat up for being soft on russia. this doesn't look soft on russia to me. syria and assad is absolutely 100% a client state, a surrogate of russia. they are armed by the russians. they've russian equipment. they are trained by the russians. if putin wanted to stop this today, he could do so. so the president is ri...

Muscles will be. what do you expect the response will be from them and ultimately how do we handle that? >> russia does not want a shooting war with the united states. what they want is to maintain their client state in syria. they want their warm water port and they want the air because base they have right now. what president trump accomplished last night was two things. number one, he sent a message to putin saying don't overstep your bounds. he also said the same message to iran and north korea. the second thing he did was per his message that i don't want to be in syria indefinitely, he s...

Out these stunts. so last year's detack didn't deter syrian actions so if it is carried out in the next few day it will be intense. >> so why is russia just now speaking at the u.n. and doubling down on the notion this is all staged, that this is a hoax, what -- what is their strategy in denying this? >> well they are protecting their clients -- >> their client being syria. >> their client state being syria. they've done this throughout the conflict and saying it is a hoax and sometimes it has been. so they think there is enough doubt to raise and maybe prevent an attack from happening. as i s...

Of john bolton. we've had two administrations and ten years of relative american disengagement. we're all proud of the 2000 soldiers there. but that is somewhat less than the new jersey state police. america has disengaged. meanwhile, the iranians have consolidated, making iran -- making syria into a client state. and putin in a bold and historic move. moving the russian army and air force into syria made it now more than a client state. it's a base of operations. syria is now an away game for the united states. whatever we do is going to have to be limited because of ten years of disengagemen...