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Statements of our officials, ru richard. >> during a disinformation campaign here, this administration definitely hitting out against russia in more aggressive ways than we've seen in the first year of this presidency. that along the lines of now an attack and rusch cosia coming b and saying this is words of aggression. is this the right time for this move, this strike given the rhetoric that is so heated? >> well, i wish the strike could have happened in a vacuum, so to speak, without the cloud of the russian intervention and the russian attack and donald trump's pathetic response and even ...

Lebanon for us. what are you seeing in the region in terms of the response so far, bill? and there was the response out of the u.n. security council to add to that. >> reporter: yeah, in a way, richard, the response was predictable but fairly muted. i think many people, many governments expected the air strikes to be much worse. remember the russian ambassador to the u.n. just 48 hours ago saying he couldn't rule out the possibility of a war between russia and the u.s. well, that obviously has been avoided. look, clear divisions with iran calling this a war crime, russia saying it's an act of ...

>> so you did like it? >> yeah. but that's not the question. the question is do large doses of fire power fix a strategic problem and that really is where i think we come up short. >> if you can here, major general, what should we do next militarily? >> i think we're pretty much done militarily. there's only one footprint we have left in syria, in eastern syria around the euphrates river, 2,000 americans buttressed by kurds who basically control syria's access to their own oil fields. i think being able to hold on to a military footprint in the area is necessary as we begin to see the civil wa...

Facility. but, you know, it's not yet clear that all the chemical stocks, as hans was outlining, have been destroyed and not yet clear that this morning's, this early morning's strike has proved to be a deterrent. and one other thing to note is what wasn't hit. syria's air force wasn't touched. you know, 250 warplanes still there, 80 helicopters. those aircraft have caused the majority of the hundreds of thousands of deaths in the syrian war so far. they are still in tact. so, you know, tomorrow morning they can go back up to the skies and resume their bombing campaign. so it just reinforces t...

Looking at what happened in the last 24 hours. how costly was this to assad. he did win his tactical victory and he's still standing. >> stay with me on the idea for a while, is this transactional foreign policy? is this the trump doctrine, as we often talk about, when we look at administrations and the way they approach foreign policy, is this transactional foreign policy? >> it's certainly a unique kind of foreign policy, sorry, richard, than we've ever seen before. it's unlike i think any other foreign policy that we've ever seen from a president in that it just shifts so much. you go back ...