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Is it really more or less moral to use barrel bombs, conventional weaponry than using chemical weapons? obviously the outcomes are oftentimes the same, and so the thing that the white house really has to determine is whether the mission is to either take out assad, to keep him from using chemical weapons, or to deter the russians or iranians from using their client state to actually do something. that is really the question that the white house and the world community really needs to ask donald trump tonight. >> what we've been told so far is this was to send a message to bashar al-assad, that...

If it doesn't, is the administration willing to use military force again? >> jim sciutto, has russia given any clues to what the response will be to this? >> they clearly said they don't like it. they called it an act of aggression, et cetera. the question is that public message and how is it followed on the ground because the u.s. attacked their client state there. does it change russian military action there? probably unlikely. i want to bring up an operation that we may have forgotten. operation infinite reach in 1998. it followed the embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania. like then, with ...

Still have a client state, but the syrians have been moving away in terms of their missile technology away from some of the russians. they are now using chinese technology, they are using chinese satellite. >> what about that with the chinese president like today? >> he deftly should. i think you should take a picture of what actually happened inside syria, take a picture to the meeting with the chinese and say, take this back to your north korean friends. this there is a new sheriff in town and we said this earlier but nothing goes over better with our allies than a credible threat of militar...

War planes, et cetera. the u.s., in a limited way, troops on the ground, but in a very limited way. it is taking military action against its client state. it will have an effect. i think the u.s. in limiting the strike and warning the russians and signals both sides don't want to blow up the entire issue. i have to think neither side wants this to escalate. >> "spider" this meeting that was previously scheduled with secretary of state rex tillerson and moscow has gotten more interesting. at the moment, it is not canceled. it will happen next week. how do you now decipher this relationship? >> ...

Iranians and to everyone in the region that we're not disengaging. we're more engaged than ever before. >> david ignatius? >> mr. secretary, secretary of state rex tillerson goes to moscow next week, probably to talk with president putin. what should tillerson say to putin specifically about syria? >> i think he should say you agreed to help in syria. you established bases there. you protected your client state as such. you are responsible for not supervising your client state. you promised to get the chemical weapons out. you didn't get them out. and now we're going to hold you to it. and thi...