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coverage of the breaking news out of the middle east and the u.s. strikes continues with ac 360. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. american-led air strikes in one of the most volatile hot spots in the world right now. mitts is some of the first video of explosions tonight in yemen's just north of the capital. iranian backed houthi fighters from yemen have been attacking commercial ships in the nearby red sea. there's been dozens of attacks. tonight u.s. and british forcevise struck back using air and naval assets. both surface ships and subma...

Interplay here between the u.s., the houthis and saudi arabia. early in the biden administration they announced they would halt support to saudi offensive action in yemen though they would still support the saudi's defensively. so the u.s. is very much trying to put that to an end and get that to a cease-fire there that was achieved frankly not all that long ago, 18, 20 months or so. so trying not to upset that here between the houthis and saudi as the u.s., u.k., and others taking part in this strike operation. there's others working in the background the u.s. is trying not to upset. the hout...

As for those chemical weapons, france says this morning, if president assad use s them agai, there will be more military air strikes. >> i'm going to ask you to stick around with us. i'm going to bring in hans nichols from the pentagon. i know we are expecting the press conference to get under way for a better assessment of what happens, what was struck, whether it was mission accomplished. help put this in perspective, you have been speaking to sources on the spectrum of potential targets. where does this fall in terms of, was this a large scale operation or a limited strike operation? >> tha...

Stated objective and the regime's ability to generate offensive military capability from the air field, which we assess was the launching people has been severely degraded. we main appropriately postured as necessary. the campaign is our primary mission. in closing, i want to commend the skill and professionalism of our military forces in the strike operation. they performed extraordinarily well and we're proud of them. >> thank you, general votel. we can take your questions now. bob, let's start with you. secretary mattis. >> in your view should the

We assessed that we achieved our stated objective and the regime's ability to generate offensive military capability from shayrat airfield, attempted says was the launching point for this chemical attack and has been severely degraded. we are obviously paying close attention to the environment in the wake of these strikes and remain postured to respond as necessary. meanwhile, we are focused on the defeat isis campaign which remains our primary mission. in closing, i want to commend the exceptional skill of our military forces involved in this strike operation. they performed extraordinarily w...