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U.s. military contingent that came here to help with the rescue operations. we haven't been able to talk to many of you guys about what was going on up in the mountain, up in the cave. can you tell me about how the u.s. was contributing to this phenomenal effort? >> absolutely. so you know, the royal thai government put a request in for our support. we came here about two weeks ago, a team of like pararescue, survival specialists, as well as support package, so medical, communications and logistics. our role here really was to advise and assist our thai partners. and as we kind of looked at th...

>> yesterday. >> yesterday. after you said that. >> yes. >> and then second, you talked about targeting the chemical weapons infrastructure of al assad, if there were actually any chemical weapons or agents in those facilities that you targeted, i assume they would create health hazard in the region or no? >> we don't believe -- we did very close analysis as the chairman pointed out, we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment and our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties. we are very much aware this is difficult to do in a situatio...

Administration needs to be talking to congress for any further authorization. chuck schumer is praising limited action to punish and deter him from doing this again. but he says he's cautioning the administration into getting us further into syria. and we know that the president has said that's something he doesn't want. >> there's some conflict in some of the message. i can almost look at these as two separate events, our involvement in syria that's been ongoing with isis, and then a limited strike response to a chemical weapons usage. and i think if we separate those, let's get a handle on i...

About targeting the chemical weapons infrastructure of al al-assad if there were any chemical weapons in those facilities you targeted, i would assume they would create a health hazard in the region? >> we did very close analysis, as the chairman pointed out, we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment and our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possibly any chance of civilian casualties, we are very much aware this is difficult to do in a situation like this. especially when the poison gas that assad assured the world he had gotten rid of obviously still exists. so it is ...

Are not u.s. military, because they would not be flying near u.s. military aircraft as they so often have. and it seems like we would know if foreign countries have this knowledge. i've no idea what it is. the bottom line is, this is a potential threat, a grave one to our country.d what is dod doing about it? >> i cannot speak on the half of the dod right now, but i can speak to what they were doing about it and what they were not doing about it when i was part c of the program. i think dod is a very large complex organization. i think that it is very good at what it normally does. but in this...