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>> both substantively and legal grounds. i understand that it makes us feel good to hit assad, and he deserves everything that he gets. but ultimately if our desire is to bring this civil war to an end, we are going to have to live with some very unsavory terms. that will likely mean that assad or some successor to assad stays in power. and every time we continue this policy, which has been the obama policy and the trump policy of providing just enough pushback against assad to keep the civil war going, but never enough pushback to actually dislodge him from power. all we're doing is postponin...

>> what was your mission? if the mission was to look tough and dominate a news cycle, you did that but if the mission was to bring the civil war to an end to save the people of syria, then there is no way the mission is accomplished. evidence suggests that these surgical missile strikes end up just quickening the pace of assad's assault on his own people. that's what happened after last year's strike, and the politics of escalation in which american actions get met with equal or greater reactions from the iranians and the syrians and the russians is ultimately awful news for the people of that...

Not legal? >> both substantively and legal grounds. i understand that it makes us feel good to hit assad, and he deserves everything that he gets. but ultimately if our desire is to bring this civil war to an end, we are going to have to live with some very unsavory terms. that will likely mean that assad or some successor to assad stays in power. and every time we continue this policy, which has been the obama policy and the trump policy of providing just enough pushback against assad to keep the civil war going, but never enough pushback to actually dislodge him from power. all we're doing i...

Thank you for france for and the united kingdom for the power of their fine military. mission ash accomplished. >> what was your mission? if the mission was to look tough and dominate a news cycle, you did that but if the mission was to bring the civil war to an end to save the people of syria, then there is no way the mission is accomplished. evidence suggests that these surgical missile strikes end up just quickening the pace of assad's assault on his own people. that's what happened after last year's strike, and the politics of escalation in which american actions get met with equal or grea...

I will not say when we're going to attack. we know longer tell our enemies our plans. >> the president startling tweet catching allies and the pentagon by surprise. a spokesman told cnn the department does not comment on potential future military actions. defense secretary james mattis said the military is on stand by. >> we stand ready to provide military options. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence agencies are locking down a final assessment of what chemical agents syrian forces used. >> we're still assessing the intelligence. >> reporter: the next key decision, what targets o hit. airfields, he...