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That would fire against them. and as colonel says it was hit in the other facility in populated area because all of this is very heavily defended. this is heavily defended aerospace by the regime, the russians and it was only several weeks ago and really f-16 coming back from a mission inside syria aerospa aerospace, so this is very, very dangerous business, michael. >> barbara starr, great job. we are lucky to have you there. thank you. as we have been discussing last night. the president authorized a missile attack on syria. many asked why didn't congress

Problems on the ground for civilians. they are watching to make sure nothing erupts and they don't know about. he did say u.s. troops in syria and u.s. troops around the world do remain on watch for any reaction to the situation, michael. >> i too thought that was really interesting and not only the fact that general mackenzy says the syrian response comes after the attack was over. also, barbara, the defense system was not employed. will you speak to that? >> well, it was really interesting of what he said. he said not employed but i did not tell you it was not turned on. what he's telling us...

To go to the storage facilities, to go to the research and develop me development facilities. that was the difference. we think by doing this, this was very successful, and we are confident that we have significantly degraded his ability to ever use chemical weapons again. >> and what kind of response should the assad regime expect from the u.s. if they were to use chemical weapons again? >> it's very important to remember that we had -- that this represent threes perminent members of the u.n. security council who did this. the uk and france are our oldest allies. this is about values. we did ...

Of these sites not movable. and that's the source of the -- that's what really sets them back. to go back to an earlier question. that's really the difference between striking an air field and essentially a delivery platform and research development and generation part of the facility. this is far more damaging to syria. >> michael? >> general mckenzie, were the three targets that were struck, does this represent the totality of syria's known cw infrastructure or were there cw structures that were -- that you didn't hit because of collateral damage concerns? second, is chlorine the new red lin...