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U.s. response? >> well, i think first of all you said it, this last one was egregious, it was barbaric and it was disgusting and so i think what you saw is there had been a cumulative wave of constant use of chemical weapons, assad knew that russia had his back, assad knew that russia would cover for him at the united nations and assad got reckless and used it in a way that was far more aggressive. we have to be very conscious of the fact that we can't allow even the smallest use of chemical weapons, that's why you saw the president strike this past weekend, that's why you saw him expel 60 rus...

U.s. response? >> well, i think first of all you said it, this last one was egregious, it was barbaric and it was disgusting and so i think what you saw is there had been a cumulative wave of constant use of chemical weapons, assad knew that russia had his back, assad knew that russia would cover for him at the united nations and assad got reckless and used it in a way that was far more aggressive. we have to be very conscious of the fact that we can't allow even the smallest use of chemical weapons, that's why you saw the president strike this past weekend, that's why you saw him expel 60 rus...

Policy allow the mass murder of women and children to continue as long as it's carried out with conventional weapons and not chemical weapons? >> well, i think that's just a very unfair question. in what respect are you asking that? chris: well, what i'm saying is that we are saying that any use of chemical weapons we are going to respond to but we are not saying that about conventional weapons and assad has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his people, why are are we drawing a distinct to assad saying it's okay to do with conventional weapons but we will object if you do with chemical weap...

With con conventional weapons be will step in if you use chemical weapons which is very small victims of assad, the mission in some ways defined by the fact that we had video. nikki haley said there had been 50 chemical uses which we did not respond. one of the things that donald trump made clear that when there's video of kids suffering he responds to that, that's his red line, i'm not sure that's a super coherent strategy going forward because first of all, let's assad continue to wipe out domestic enemies an doesn't change status quo on the ground. chris: she did not commit that if there we...

Response? >> that is totally up to assad, what i can tell you is the president has made it very clear that when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, we have no tolerance for it. we are going to watch out for the best interest to have american people and so he made a point and hopefully assad gets it. if assad doesn't get it, it's going to hurt and i think what general mattis was saying was these strikes happened basically responding to their continued use of chemical weapons, but, of course, if assad continues to go forward, there will be more and it will hurt and i think that he has a lot...