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Strike from the area where the weapons were launched. it appears that the president is indicating in these comments that he ordered this attack on the site where these weapons were laufrnched by the syrian government against those civilians on monday. the president making brief comments, but as i was saying earlier this is the president really kind of setting the stage getting the broad highlights in terms of what happened tonight. we expect to hear from other senior administration officials. this is not a situation where the cameras go into the white house and everything is able to come out l...

We have so many comments by mr. trump before he ran for office and you're right about that tweet in 2013. he said the president must get congressional approval before going into syria here. all of those discussions will come in the coming hours and coming days here. i think this is a president who is inclined to act desiesively on this and of course he is consuming all this information now differently and more than ever before. when he was saying those other things as a private citizen, he was largely just basing his -- >> i got to -- i got to interrupt. hang on. stay there. i want to bring ba...

Where you'll see these comments shortly, but the president making reference to beautiful babies cruelly murdered in a barbaric attack by the syrian government. as i was saying earlier you do get the sense from these comments tonight he was deeply effected by these images that the whole world was shocked by earlier this week. >> these comments have been given by the president of the united states as jim said to a pool of reporters. as soon as we get the tape of that, it's not broadcast live, it's not going to be a live address to the american people, we will obviously play that for you the seco...

President trump speaking to reporters. that should be coming in a few moments. this is not happening live over at mar-a-lago, we're getting a read out of those comments and you'll get the tape, but this is what the president said to reporters a few moments ago. he said assad choked out the helpless and slow and brutal death for so many even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this attack. no child of god should ever -- and then the quote ends, but we're going to get a fuller quote. no child of god should ever have to deal with this something like this or something along those lines. ther...

Tomahawks were fired in this attack. impacting around 8:45 eastern time. jim acosta is getting new information on what moved the president to change his mind. he joins us now. what have you learned? >> reporter: as we know the president has long been opposed to military action in syria. we've gone through that time and again, but i was told by a senior administration official who was with the president in the aftermath of that chemical weapons attack in syria and this official told me that the president was effected, was moved by these images of dead children among the civilian casualties and ...