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>> ben joins us now. what do you think the reaction will be because you've been reporting for years now that the syrian people have all but given up any hope of american action. >> reporter: it depends who you talk to. here in turkey i think the turkish leadership will be pleased with this strike because they were impatient with the leadership of barack obama who they felt was simply indecisive and didn't move when it should have to topple or change the regime in syria. at least in turkey there will be applause for this strike. within syria itself let's keep in mind that any strike of this nat...

Coalition to advice people, but he said this was a 100% u.s. military operation tonight in syria. >> jeff, hold on because i want to pursue something with you. the photos you're seeing are from earlier this week the results of the attack by syrian forces. so many children killed in that attack. images like these as jeff was reporting according to what the secretary of state are saying are some of what deeply effected president trump and suggesting and motivating him to look at options for some sort of retailatory strike. that was an important point. it sounds like he's saying this is not the f...

Republicans and democrats, senators and representatives earlier this evening. they briefed them. the vice president was also involved in that. he's been working on this from the situation room in washington. this was a situation where the president was notifying if not seeking approval. we'll see how that plays out. some senators may be critical of that, but we're already seeing some early signs of bipartisan support for the action tonight. >> jeff, i appreciate that. we've gotten an update on the time of the strike. it was 8:40 eastern time. i want to go back to our military experts. we got s...

And manned aircraft to gather intelligence over syria in the last few years. we haven't had a lot on the grouped, but we've gathered enough intelligence to put spotters on airfields. it's gotten better and that reinforces your planning capability. when somebody says what's our plan for something next week, they will get a bare based plan. it won't be refined. that's crisis action planning, but they'll put a spin on it request quickly. there's a lot of lights on determining what's going to happen next and what they've accomplished tonight. >> i want to go back to barbara starr. >> reporter: we ...

Russians since they knew they were coming just decide not to try and oppose the strikes? there's a lot of questions that come up with the russian u.s. talking to each other before this went on. >> general hertling, as someone who served in iraq for so long at such a high level, when you heard the secretary of state, he sound to you this is sort of a one-off, that this is not a campaign we'll be seeing more of in the days to come. >> i took some notes when we were talking about what the secretary said. i'll go back to reinforce what we all know. this was a very bold, tactical retaliatory strike...