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Si'm happy for the distraction. i'll be right there. and the butchery begins. what am i gonna wear? this party is super fancy. are you my uber? [ horn honks ] hold on. [ upbeat music playing ] the biggest week in tv is back. [ doorbell rings ] who's that? show me watchathon. xfinity watchathon week now until april 9. get unlimited access to all of netflix and more, free with xfinity on demand. welcome back. the there are new details tonight about the missile strikes on syria, new action to determine whether russian forces were complicit in the attack that led up to them. fits into any larger...

And so the initial military strategy is okay. but what's next, what is the end game, those are the questions we're asking tonight. >> do you think they have a strategy in place, because it does seem like a major shift for them, just from the comments the secretary of state made and even the initial response to the strike on tuesday. >> if they have a strategy, they certainly haven't briefed tattoo us. and they seem to be all over the map, you're right. now all of a sudden assad has to go. so there's an awful lot of questions that remained unanswered here. and at the end of the day it's just no...

Of that. this is a tactical issue. the question -- the key question is what is the strategy? what is the policy? what are we going to do next? what are the other governments to do next? just because we conducted a strike does not signal any of those things. your questioning of me, do i expect more? i don't know. i don't know. i'm not in the decision, luke. that's something key civilian authorities have to do. >> we have to leave it there. thank you. up next we talked about russia. next michael hayden joins us with that. get the ultimate in entertainment plus unlimited data. get directv now f...

And i think general hayden is right that in the long run our strategy has to be an isis-first strategy because isis is the main target. isis is the main enemy. and in that context there's only so much we can do to weaken assad. because let's say we were going to keep going on this path, the weaker assad gets, the stronger isis gets. overall the two strongest military forces in syria are isis and assad. we are now in the next few weeks going to return, i assume, to what the trump administration's primary focus has been, the war against isis, the battle against isis. and in doing that, we're goi...

Line on the chemical weapons and now they just -- things continue on as normal? >> well, it can't be in my view. i know they are planning and paging plans not only in this situation but also for you crane, for taking -- they have got a lot of plans to make to make up for the last eight years. i am convinced they are working on an overall strategy. i have great confidence in this team around the president of the united states. if i had been asked to name a team i couldn't have named a better one than the one we have got. there are also -- you have got to know this. there are tensions within the...