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Missile blitz where assad watched chilling say or an attack and calls for alice to help and its bloodshed. that's the headline in the british sunday newspaper this morning where word has reached across the pond that the united states has taken action in syria. let's turn to ambassador dennis ross, former special assistant to president obama's special advisor to hillary clinton. he's also fox news contributor. good aiming. how has the world reacted to such a thing? it seems like from canada to many of our allies in the middle east, there is widespread praise for this action. >> i think for thos...

Well and along comes this strike in syria which horrified anyone who had ever seen it. it was an opportunity to take a stand and he took it. >> he took it and it's going to be popular with republicans, it's going to be popular very much on syria, it's going to be popular with the democrats. and for trump, if we were to distill the cynical politics, it allows him to not be obama. he has so wanted to distinguish his presidency from everybody, from other presidents have come before. this allows him, on the very issue that entangled the president obama, the red line that obama declared, that canno...

People to decide through diplomatic work what is going to be there next feature government and the u.s. now saying that given what assad and these chemical weapons and they don't see any realistic way for assad to be part of that, that being a similar message to for years that we heard from barack obama and the administration. >> so many of the -- born in syria anymore because the billions that they fled that country. there has to be a point to restore syria and put it cities and towns back together. there's been so much destruction there, as documented by international relief agencies and jou...

Like they were somehow joining forces with iran and assad, who were in a sense killing. they don't want to be seen as part of that. here he might be prepared to do more and his response to what the u.s. is acting of them. i could see a possibility with the sunni arab states. the question is where the europeans do more? it's quite possible. i think they were probably more focused on what can be done to make the process of a cease-fire in syria. the process of politically trying to create a transition period that i think which is part of the whole geneva approach that was championed by then secr...

Regime, having brought in so short of she a militia starting with his has bola. there is a response where the united states has made it very clear that we are drawing a line and acting on that. we are making it clear that the onside regime can't act with impunity and the message that is complacently one that goes to the iranians and that's very much welcomed by israeli. you saw what pedro netanyahu just said. it's also very much welcomed by the city states as well. also the middle east, again, what assad did using chemical weapons is something that is seen as abhorrent by the whole internation...