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Military leaders are here in washington. that's general votel in charge of centcom. secretary mattis. the military side is fully staffed up on this. they just don't have the state department counterparts to make sure that the military action is balanced with diplomacy. >> the suite of options that you just referenced what do we know about the range of options we're talking about here? >> when the pentagon looks at military options, they think in terms of effects, assets they have out there the ability to deliver these effects and then finally strategy. what's the larger message they want to se...

This as sort of a prelude to what we're doing in north korea. if we put our chips on the table with the t-lams, let's use diplomacy in a powerful and assertive way to shape this problem and rem solve it without more destruction. >> thank you all very much tonight. next, more breaking nutsz at this moment. the possibility of a major white house shake you have. this is breaking at this moment. we'll get you the very lightest on what we're laerg on that as our reporters break this. also coming up later this hour, we will talk about the same president trump who launched a major strike against syri...

Our allies, we didn't ask, we notified. by the way, we just launched some t-lams and we're letting you guys know. i would imagine that assad in advance of this scrambled his aircraft, his fixed-wing aircraft and got them off the runway. so we achieved or objectives to act. we did not degrade in any substantial way assad's ability to execute something like this again. >> when you look at the video, what is happening here? >> that tells me that the navy's doing its job. those are tomahawks being launched from incredibly talented sailors and leaders aboard ships in the mediterranean. that's what ...

Helicopters. i suggest the fixed aircraft left. >> if you telegraph russia, it is a chance that russia alerted them. >> yes. >> we have russian state tv of the aftermath. what do you don't see? >> i don't see the runway crater. >> i don't either. >> t-lams. cruise missiles don't have the ability to crater the runway. you can create damage and rough stuff up. the concrete facilities can be damaged. you can soften them with a single hit. >> it was disabled for the time being or could have gone farther? >> it could have gone farther if weadditional types of weapon systems. the issue was keep it n...

If we were to putn man to aircraft, that's a significant endeavor. >> and would have involved russia too a lot of ground to air defenses of airs. >> absolutely and that was the purpose of this deconfliction process. that was critical, so t-lams were important. if you want it to go through the upper right wind doe dodow of g that's where it will go. >> the ships are fast but still takes time to get them places. what do we have and where? >> as matter of routine we have ships in the mediterranean