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East react to this? i think largely the middle east is going to be incredibly positive about this action being taken. if you think about it, shep, since the president took office on january 20th, he has largely been reassuring allies that american leadership is back in the world. he did it in europe with secretary defense, the secretary of state, homeland security vice president all going there within the first 30 days. in the far east with the secretary of defense and state. he's been visiting with counties countries from the middle east that he's been hosting here if the united states, reass...

Issue of where did they go when the obama administration said they were out of syria. he says beyond this one airfield, there is still that threat in this syria. he said this was specifically at that airfield to push back at that specific facility, but it was not a small strike. it should be a big change in assad's calculus. it's the first time the u.s. has taken decisive action. that is the point. decisive action showing strength, showing after seven years of war crimes that assad can't continue to do that. the secretary of state tillerson continuing on background on the record through the ge...

That one of those three actors might take further action that would require the united states to take further action and might draw us further into this syrian civil war? >> well, this is one of the main concerns, and i'm told that the trump team as they contribute it exactly what this response would be, spent more time talking about that, about the potential reaction, potential of an escalation than any other subject that they discussed. i think that view is that there's a low probability of any kind of direct response from assad, from the russians, from the iranians but of course it's possib...

I mean, we know what russia's been up there for a long time we know what the iranians will doing. and it was it seemed naïve to suggest that they would rethink this. with you no there's been action and i think as a result of this action you'll have the united states government pressing our allies and potential partners in a coming coalition and others to put pressure on the russians, put pressure o iranians to back off of their support for bashar al-assad and be very interesting to watch the coming days what assad himself does. how he reacts, what he says and does a. if he shows any indicatio...

So far the u.s. has been reluctant to take a lot of those steps, and now you're going to see as a result of this increased hopes and expectations among u.s. backed rebels in syria. so you see the secretary of state and other trump administration officials trying to downplay expectations for a potential increase in the long term in u.s. involvement in this syria civil war. >> do we know the degree to had the possible ramifications of this, any possible explanation might have been game planned? i meant he is escalation. >> this is a one off, there a response to a specific incident the chemical w...