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That the word they used was a sing you lar response, a one-off response. then you twin that with what secretary mautdis said at the end, they do not have preemptive strike authority. it looks more and more like we had on april 6th. this response was a unique response and they are taking this on a case by case basis. one other quick note, in several moments they used the term measured response. you can continue to hear inside the pentagon, the launching that 59 strike targets, 57 of them were hit to get the maude maddow point. you get to this idea of proportion proportionality, we continue to h...

And given the vi tube ration which they approached that question at the end, sounds like we're going o something other than bomb an air field. >> hans nichols was among those called on for questions in addition to our pentagon producer courtney kuby. hans, your take away from being there in the room? >> he said they do not have preemptive strike authority on syria. that gives an indication for the bluster and we heard several times, although secretary mattis didn't utter the word red lines, this amounted to one giant red line. he said they do not have preemptive strike authority. they have to ...