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Of equipment. they have lost a lot of material. and it is going to have a significant effect on them. i think the words cripple and degrade are good accurate words. kelly: we have fox team coverage on all of this. john roberts has the latest from the white house. but we begin with mike tobin in jerusalem. what is the aftermath of these strikes? >> i can show you, we have new enhanced images before and after the strikes. starting with barza, this is the facility that the lieutenant general, the joint staff director of the pentagon described as the heart of the syrian chemical weapons program. t...

Him, ah. oh hello. that lady, these houses! yes, yes and yes. and don't forget about them. uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. kelly: the pentagon touting those airstrikes in syria as a significant victory. and praising u.s. servicemembers and their allies for successfully hitting every target. here's pentagon spokesperson dana white. >> last night operations were very successful. we met our objective. we hit the sites, the heart of the chemical weapons program so it was mission accomplished. kelly: our n...

You keep. >> russia delivered the expected response on the attack, president putin denouncing what he called an act of aggression against a sovereign state committed without a mandate from the u.n. security council and in violation of the u.n. charter and norms and principles of international law. the national security council says it is pleased that while russia has been making these statements, which vat -- which putin and other russian officials feel they have to make there has been no quote conflict with russia either during the strike or since. kelly: russia is also claiming syria shot do...

Identified these targets to mitigate the risk of russian forces being involved. >> u.s. military assets remain as ambassador nikki haley said locked and loaded, ready to respond, if assad uses chemical weapons again. kelly? kelly: what about these reports that russia and syria shot down some of the tomahawks? >> well, the pentagon says it didn't happen. they say all of their 105 missiles landed on target, nearly simultaneously, to overwhelm the syrian air defense system. russian and syrian state media both claim they shot down dozens of the allied missiles. but the pentagon says the russian gu...

Mission accomplished are a phrase the pentagon rarely uses in order -- in order not to tempt fate. in this case the pentagon and white house defined the mission narrowly to respond to assad's aparent use of chemical weapons. >> together we have sent a clear message to assad and his murderous lieutenants that they cannot perpetrate another chemical weapons attack for which they will be held accountable. >> we have attacked the heart of the syrian chemical weapons program. i'm not saying they won't be able to reconstitute it. i'm not saying that it is going to continue. this is dealt in a very s...