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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...

Kelly: the u.n. security council today holding an emergency session over those military strikes on syria. in response to a chemical attack. u.s. ambassador to the u.n., nikki haley saying president trump has drawn a red line and enforced it. >> our message was crystal clear. the united states of america will not allow the assad regime to continue to use chemical weapons. kelly: laura ingall is live at the united nations. laura today's emergency meeting was called by the russians. what was their goal? >> hi, kelly. well, russia proposed resolution that would have condemned the military actions ...

Authority to do something in self-defense. now, the question is, is syria using chemical weapons against its people self-defense? that's a tougher question. but again, you know, the fact that we're having this debate i find very interesting because we've had this debate -- we haven't seen this debate so many times in the past. i have to say again i'm not sure this is a constitutional action, but it was a very smart targeted action. and we had some people saying before we're worried that president trump is going to start world war iii. well that didn't happen. i think you are going to have some...

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...

Degrade the syrian regime's chemical weapons capability. and to deter further chemical weapon attacks against the people of syria. nato strongly condemns the repeated use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime. >> in fact all 29 members of nato backed these strikes, but most including for example germany chose not to get directly involved and even for the u.k. and french leaders, there was some opposition within the governments and the opposing forces there. kelly? kelly: what is russia saying about the strikes, greg? >> well, as you can imagine, russia not pleased, a very close ally of syri...