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And in any plan moving forward of dealing with syria? >> well, i think the u.s. military, of course, is an excellent military force, and it is certainly better prepared than it has been in some time. however, there are still some significant gaps because of budget shortfalls in the past in the recent past. as far as the response from russia is concerned, putin can decide to do one of two things. he can either decide to allow the kind of action that we've taken and respond to it in a way we deem positive, or he can double down. and i'm afraid he's going to try to double down at least initially....

Night. all right. so we don't have it. he said the combined american, british and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our power. military and diplomatic. we're prepares to sustain this response until the syrian response stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. the u.s., the world has had all those levers up to this point. what steel realistically is in their collective arsenals that would be more persuasive than anything else up to this point? >> this is really the key question. does this, as general mattis, the secretary of defense outlined, this is a one...

So i don't see russia and iran changing any time soon. i wish i could say i saw something in this strike last night that would indicate that we're getting serious about dealing with the issue. look, it's not a military problem. it's a political problem. and, by the way, i don't think it was lost on anybody in the region that we paired up with the british and the french just at about the 100th year anniversary of britain and france dividing up the middle east between them. here come the old colonialists and new colonialists. >> let's talk about that political solution which, as the years go on,...

So that becomes this real serious issue and one of the things you look at is wind direction, wind speed, things of that nature at the time of the strike so potentially you mitigate those kind of effects. >> we know that the allies, u.s. and its allies here, were working very closely to make sure that there was no russia presence in any of the targeted zones. president trump just tweeting now again saying so proud of our great military which will soon be, after the spending of billions of fully approved dollars, the finest our country has ever had. there won't be anyone or anything even clos...

Pentagon is holding a briefing. cnn's barbara starr has been working her sources at the pentagon. we'll bring that to you live when it happens. but what are you hearing about what we expect to hear from them in the next hour? >> what we do expect to hear is more of that battlefield detail all through the night. they've been collecting the battle damage assessment intelligence in terms of each target looking through imagery and other sources to see what damage was inflicted. did they reach their target? did they cause the damage on those targets that they intended to cause? it begins to quickly...