Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170408:20:04:00
To on the ground, has been largely deserted since that chemical attack earlier in the week in which as you said, 89 people are now confirmed to be dead. if it's indeed deserted largely, one can assume the message behind these air strikes was more about showing a posture of defiance, of showing that the regime of bashar al assad won't be cowed by the u.s. and the international community. we know now that syrian jets are also once again taking off from t air base that the u.s. struck earlier friday morning. the u.s. objective with those strikes not to render the air base unusable but to destroy ...