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Sources? intelligence on the ground? >> again, the syrian chemical weapon issue is, is like the situation inside syria itself, is very fluid, very flammable and highly complex. and getting kpleer pictures is indeed very difficult. we are just saying and reiterating, in the strongest possible words, we're not making any policy recommendations to the united states. we're not urging, we're just going to keep on being great allies and sharing the best intelligence that we have with our allies. so that they can make the decision for themselves. >> thank you very much. ambassador michael orrin. me...

Potentially and hamas as well. syria and iran for decades now have had a working relationship, which is unusual for an arab country to be working so closely with iran, persian nation, and in this case, the iranians see syria as a crucial way for them to have an influence, not only in syria itself, but in lebanon and throughout the middle east and have access to border country with israel where they want to cause problems. >> how do we explain that we readily went into libya, where the atrocities against civilian libyans were nowhere near what's going on in syria now, and what's historically ha...

You're on expert in this area. isis suspected targets or whether elsewhere in syria, this is the first time the u.s. has launched air strikes against the syria targets, is that right? >> yes. >> tell us why. >> usually you have to have the u.n. security council give you the authorization. or we would have to be invited in by syria itself, which wasn't going to happen. then there was the concern about getting ourselves into some kind of escalation that would lead us to basically have ownership of