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Tensions remain high in the middle east after the united states, united kingdom and france launched those attacks in an already unstable region. rami, thank you for being with us. we were just talking to somebody in damascus, in talking to a syrian journalist, we were tacking about the russian involvement there. i think it's time as we close up the hour to pull back to about 5,000 feet and discuss what has changed in 24 hours in the most unstable region in the world? >> what has changed is that yet one more american and european strike militarily against an arab target has taken place and that...

>> in a civil arwar and it was t about regime change. as i discussed with president trump and president macron it was a limited, targeted, and effective strike with clear boundaries that expressly sought to avoid retaliation. >> jeff bennett is at the white house for us. we have hans nichols at the pentagon. we begin with danny mackie who is inside damascus, the capital of syria. i'm sure that you were aware, as we were, of the conversations taking place over the last seven days about how the u.s. might react to that chemical weapons attack. let me just get a sense from you of what happened la...

Sense of jubilation, if you'd like. i've been for a very short period into the streets of damn discussion. you've seen pro-assad protests within the centers of the squares, in the main areas around damascus. you've soeen the syrian pages posting pictures of assad going to work as normal but after that it was a message of what you could describe as defiance to the united states and it show as message that these people are definitely defiant and have taken their own actions in this war. >> independent journalist danny makki inside damascus.

Message of president trump last night. you're none by the company you keep. it was 2014 when then secretary of state john kerry negotiated an agreement that he would represent and that administration would represent, eliminated 100% of the chemical weapons in syria and russia agreed to be the guarantor of that agreement. and now we see the atrocities, the horrific images emerging from the brutality of this monster in damascus and all the while we understand that russia has been standing by aiding and abetting and supporting this brutal regime. and the time has come for russia to join the famil...

>> reporter: really this attempt by the assad government to lay out what their chemical weapons stockpiles actually are is trying to move the ball down the road a little bit in terms of keeping the conversation away from who actually used chemical weapons back during that august sarin gas attack that killed so many inside damascus. the syrians, of course, say it was the rebels, most of the international community say it was the government. that debate is largely academic as syrians keep living up to their obligations under this deal. meantime, the civil war continues to rage on. more than 150 ...