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Supporters in russia and iran should know that the united states and our allies and the civilized world are prepared to continue this effort until we are assured that chemical weapons will never be used again against innocent civilians in syria. >> reporter: you say the capabilities were crippled but they do still have the ability to carry out chemical weapons, correct? >> we believe we degraded their program and severely degraded their ability to create chemical weapons. but this was also about establishing a deterrent framework. working with our allies as president trump reach oed out t the ...

But syria should know, their supporters in russia and iran should know, that the united states and our allies and the civilized world are prepared to continue this effort until we are assured that chemical weapons will never be used again against innocent civilians in syria. >> you said their capabilities were crippled, but they do still have the ability to carry out further chemical weapons, correct? >> we believe that we significantly degraded their program. we believe that we significantly degraded their ability to produce chemical weapons. but this was also about reestablishing what we cal...

Lima, peru, where the president was going to be. pence is there in his stead. joining me is general barry mccaffrey. you were listening to this. three main takeaways i had from this. vice president pence said that the attacks significantly degraded syria's chemical weapons program, it reestablished a deterrent framework and sent a message to syria and its patrons, russia and iran. he then confirmed having been asked a couple of times by reporters about the president's tweet earlier, where the president tweeted "mission accomplished" because certainly anybody who covers what's been going on on ...

People. and then nikki haley, who you also mentioned, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. saying the united states is in her words, locked and loaded ready to launch another military strike if needed. talking all that together, you got a picture of the pressure campaign, the administration is trying to build. but let's take a closer look at vice president mike pence's comments earlier. >> we believe we significantly degraded 1their program and ability to produce chemical weapons. but this was also about reestablishing what we call a deterrent framework. working with our alleys as president trump r...