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Likely effects in every way. joining us now from the pentagon is courtney kuby, nbc news national security and military reporter. courtney, thank you very much for being with us. what can you tell us about the president's decision, the timing and what do we know about the scale of this effort? >> we know very little, as you mentioned, rachel. a couple of things that he mentioned were these are precision strikes on president bashar al assad's chemical infrastructure. we don't know exactly what that means yet. but he also mentioned that the u.s. and the british and the french, who he said were p...

Something could happen? i guess the window is open now. >> well, the window generally opens around 4:00 p.m. eastern standard time and goes until about 11:00 p.m. that's the area of operations we like to be in is nighttime. and these night operations give us the advantage. a lot of systems in syria are very rudimentary, 1960s, '70s. they have some modern technology in their anti-aircraft defense systems, but they have a relatively low-level visual system outside of the russian air defense systems that they have. when i carried out the first air strike or helped participate in the first air str...

Malcolm nance joins us as well. he's a veteran of counterterrorism, also a veteran of u.s. operations against syria in the 1980s. both gentlemen are msnbc analysts. malcolm, you can begin. what do you know? what do you think about when something could happen? i guess the window is open now. >> well, the window generally opens around 4:00 p.m. eastern standard time and goes until about 11:00 p.m. that's the area of operations we like to be in is nighttime. and these night operations give us the advantage. a lot of systems in syria are very rudimentary, 1960s, '70s. they have some modern technol...

Counterterrorism, also a veteran of u.s. operations against syria in the 1980s. both gentlemen are msnbc analysts. malcolm, you can begin. kpl l. what do you think? what do you think about when something could happen? i guess the window is open now. >> well, the window generally opens around 4:00 p.m. eastern standard time and goes until about 11:00 p.m. that's the area of operations we like to be in is nighttime. and these night operations give us the advantage. a lot of systems in syria are very rudimentary, 1960s, '70s. they have some modern technology in their anti-aircraft defense systems...

Solution. the president of the united states can determine at any point that he feels, let's say, north korea's nuclear missile program is a clear and present danger to the national security of the united states. he can order that the football, which is communications package and strike options package be brought to him. he can choose a strike package within a minute and using the communications authentication device in his pocket, he can order the nuclear forces to launch a minuteman three missile in 30 minutes it will strike north korea and detonate. no one is in that chain to stop him. >> o...