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Children with the chemical weapons. one of assad's allies has been thai thai ron. >> give us a sense of what their reaction is overnight and what has the rhetoric been to the lead up of an inevitable strike? >> good morning. iran already reacted shortly after the strike. the foreign ministry here issued a statement saying this was an illegal attack on syria, a sovereign nation. it should never have happened. this is going to have broader consequences in the region after this attack. as you mentioned, iran is syria's closest ally, close adviser to the supreme leader,

Was in syria a few days ago as talk was mounting and pledged allegiance to the area and iran was going to stick by syria. they have, along with russia, condemned the attack. i think the iranians will be breathing a sigh of relief that this wasn't a much broader and sustained attack, that it didn't try to overthrow assad and, especially the iranian assets were not targeted in syria. iran can take a step back. this is not something to get embroiled in with everything going on with the u.s., threats with president trump to pull out of the nuclear deal, calling them the main protagonist. they don'...

It doesn't say the power of the president to wage war. it restricts the president's power to wage war. what we have to do is regain the power of congress. we cannot allow this man, this president to run all around this world just sending off missiles when ever he thinks there's a problem out there. indeed, there is a problem, it's a very, very serious problem in syria. assad is a butcher. he is doing terrible things to his people. launching missiles can't going to solve that problem. we need a coherent, strong, strategy, a smart strategy through time to deal with syria. we certainly have never...

Placed. no proper research and materials could be taken from there. they are not buying the line that assad used chemical weapons and they never have in the past. this is a western ploy to bring down assad and detain anyone that supports him. >> it was set to begin. it is on the ground investigation in duma, i believe it was supposed to start in the coming days. ali, live for us thank you very much. a press conference a few hours ago, defense secretary, james mattis was asked about the legal basis for the strikes. listen to what he had to say. >> as far as the legal authority under article 2...

Frequently at odds publicly. there's not a great deal of coordination that takes place or has taken place publicly between the white house and the defense department. i think what you are hearing from the defense department, with respect to this strike, that's it. the second way to look at it is, perhaps the notion that if the -- if assad uses chemical weapons again, they feel free to strike again. that goes without saying. the third way of looking is maybe trump is talking something strategic, then, in fact, we are not going to rely just on the military power as we have for a long, long time....