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We can seriously dent and damage his air force with standoff weapons, from submarines, ships, aircraft. we have a very small footprint on the ground, about 2,000 soldiers in the eastern part of syria, they should be far enough away from any of these targets. keep in mind the russians would not dare enact any type of retribution on those soldiers. we do have to be careful there. >> harris: quickly before i let you go, this is really key. there have been other ways people have killed in terms of fluorine gas weapons, what is the difference in terms of what we are dealing with? >> there is this k...

Question. this is an essential test for john bolton and it will also be a test for mike pompeo at his confirmation hearings this thursday. he's now going to be asked about this. this will be one of the central issues. there is a coalition we can pull together. it 's the sunni arab states, we represent many of their interests in syria. it's the united kingdom and france. the united kingdom has standoff weapons so they could be involved in the attack but it has to be much larger than that. it has to be complete the battle against isis, protect the syrian kurds, have leverage in syria so we can c...

This is some current grumbling that says what about our refugee policy and also what about a broader policy for syria? this bombing raid alone is not a policy. >> bill: of course is not a policy. i don't think trump is going to do regime change. >> and i don't see any reason why he is obligated to. what he did here was to say mister, you committed a hideous atrocity and we're going to make you pay for it. >> bill: we don't want you to do war crimes and this is a noble nation and were not going to stand for it. >> i was just going to say, he lost part of his airpower as a result of it and peopl...

We're told there are 59. they hit a syrian air base, which is near the syrian city of homs. the president said in a recorded message tonight from his golf resort at mar-a-lago that that is the air base from which syrian military aircraft took off when they dropped bombs that are believed to have been carrying chemical munitions on civilian neighborhoods on tuesday of this week. again, the death toll for that attack is considered to be north of 70 people, dozens of children among those killed in that attack. the consensus view appears to be that this was the one target of those 59 tomahawk miss...

Administration wants to continue to target terrorists in yemen, even though as peter says, there are no more u.s. troops in yemen, no more u.s. embassy in yemen. >> but remember, there are some places around the world where we've been extremely effective with standoff weapons. that is drones when we don't have a significant presence. think the travel areas of pakistan near afghanistan. think somalia. two places we don't have embassies. two places we don't have forces in place. and i think drones have been devastating in eliminating terror leadership in both places. >> and it's going to presuma...