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We have luster munson here and former green beret, ben collins. lester, to you first. the administration promises that it will decide on what to do by the end of the day. the president will be meeting with military advisers. what are his options right now? >> he's most likely looking at something similar to what he did a year ago, a missile strike on syrian military assets. there's probably some other things that he will be looking at. we should all reflect before this decision is made, particularly those in the administration and make sure that we're doing fits into a strategy in syria, that ...

Political support here in the united states for air strikes, and we cut a deal with russia and syria to pull out chemical weapons that held for a significant amount of time. clearly assad has cheated, and that has been a failure we have to look at the causes of. that includes russia's involvement and intervention. to say that, wow, if just one initiative had taken place, everything else would have been fine, is just really nonsense. >> this z allegalleged attack w chemical weapons, does it increase in any scenario the prospect of a u.s./russian conflict on the ground there? >> well, these pict...

Power called a matter of routine, so we have to walk a delicate line that exists. there's much we get from our relationship with pakistan that's in our national interests, and it's about the u.s. national interests. we have to start the conversation always with what's in our best interest, and if we can define that then we can move forward. and we end up navigating, and we kind of make it up as we go. that happens as a matter of routine. that's okay. we have to have a well-defined end state, and that's where we are with pakistan right now, we are in a better place if we can cooperate with paki...

Bat. new york city is prepared to handled the overfaaftermath of attacks and we have to go on. this incident is over for the most part -- now, i know there were halloween parades planned for tonight. new york city's forces are going to be out on the streets in force and they really need to take stock in that. >> this is being investigated as an act of terror. in the last two weeks, we have made millitarily significant progress against isis in both iraq and syria. do you think this is connected in that -- in the sense that you have that they are losing grounds but they feel as if they need to s...

Clear. the administration has set this end state out right from the beginning, and they haven't moved from it, and that is to denuclearize north korea. it's not stuff to stop miniaturizing -- sufficient to stop miniaturizing nuclear weapons to put on icbms, you must get red of all nuclear weapons. this takes us back pre-2005 as an end state. their strategy is to isolate north korea and apply maximum pressure, and they began that strategy, brian, the first week of the administration when secretary mattis was sent to the far east, and he told our allies in the far east that the military option w...