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Before green lighting the attack, president trump was briefed by james mattis on every military option available. >> let's go back to washington and get perspective from retired colonel cedric ligeighton. 50 tomahawk missiles at this air base. your initial response? >> i think it was a clear move by the trump administration to lay down a marker. to say to the assad regime that they cannot use chemical weapons. they cannot do the kinds of things they've gotten away with, during the last seven years of the syrian civil war. and that very factor -- i should say, six years. that fact creates an in...

Basically on our side. but if you're fighting against us, you're on the side of isis. they now see us as being on the side of isis. they said those things in the press releases. of course, we all know as christiane amanpour mentioned previously, that's not correct. it is noninnocence. >> that's the expected reaction. you said if we don't follow this with furtherer military option action, it's back to status quo. >> that could be military and could include things much as making sure if the syrians, conducting another chemical attack against their own people, that is similar attack takes base ag...

All of the things that make the airfield operational. the military shared with us information that they said linked this airfield to the chemical weapons strikes earlier this week, including tracking data for some of the aircraft, they believe dropped the chemical munitions in question. this is evidence that really drove them to hit this airfield with the intention of disabling it. >> we know yesterday, ryan, that the president was at mar-a-lago, having dinner with president xi. earlier in the day, he had held with his military advisers to see what suite of options he had. he made that decisio...

Could change some of the outcomes in the battlefield and in the near term. >> is it possible to view this as a one-off military option? >> i think it could be a one-off action. but if it is, a huge opportunity has been lost. ? the administration decides they're going to do this and not follow it up with anything else, then we'll be back to the status quo before this attack took place. as far as the civil war in syria is concerned, it could change things in several ways. it could affect in a negative way, the fight against isis because the way the syrian regime looks at this, if you're fighting...

U.n., in front of the international court of justice, basically tell the world what the syrians have been up to. and in essence, serve as advocate for the victim officials the syrian civil war. those are the things that could happen. in materials of other military option, of course, there are lots of ore things that could happen. the question is, how far do we want to go and how far do we want to get involved? that, of course, is something that i tonight think the administration is prepared to answer at this particular moment. >> let's talk about russia quickly. the foreign minister saying thi...