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Chemical weapons that are stored obviously in secretive locations. >> thank you for joining me here in new york. still ahead, impact in the middle east. we are live in beruit with reaction to those strikes on syria. we've been preparing for this day. over the years, paul and i have met regularly with our ameriprise advisor. we plan for everything from retirement to college savings. giving us the ability to add on for an important member of our family. welcome home mom. with the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. not in this house. 'cause that's no average family. that's your fam...

But also if -- and it's a big if -- if that framework could be implemented, that would be a positive gain. so this administration must push this diplomatic effort hard and make sure that the russians are good on their rhetoric so we can actually remove those chemical weapons and the capability of the assad regime. >> i want -- you both have mentioned the stability of syria overall. is it true that about 100 times as many rebels have been killed by convention weapons as much as the chemical weapons. if you remove the chemical weapons, certainly assad still has a major advantage in the field. th...

They engineer these facilities. they saw what happened when the israelis took out the syrian and iraqi facility and know the capability of our weapons so they dug these installations far enough into the ground so they could survive the existing supply of bunker busters. 2006 we had an election, elected a democrat congress. in 2007, the bush administration went to congress and asked for a modest several hundred million in additional moneys to upgrade our conventional weapons stock. the idea was make the bunker busters tougher so you have some -- you injected t eedsom s instability in the situat...

They engineer these facilities. they saw what happened when the israelis took out the syrian and iraqi facility and know the capability of our weapons so they dug these installations far enough into the ground so they could survive the existing supply of bunker busters. 2006 we had an election, elected a democrat congress. in 2007, the bush administration went to congress and asked for a modest several hundred million in additional moneys to upgrade our conventional weapons stock. the idea was make the bunker busters tougher so you have some -- you injected t eedsom s instability in the situat...

Launch another air strike if needed. vice president mike pence said today that the trump administration is ready to respond to any potential retailiatory measure bias syria or its allies. take a look. >> we carefully examined the possibility of a response by syria or by its allies, russia, and iran, in this calculation. and the president made the decision to target chemical weapons facilities, having counted all the costs and the potential of those decisions. >> add to the balancing act the fact that u.s. officials are emphasizing that the allied attack on syria was not intended they say to pr...