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Unlawful, horrendous activity, assad waged war on his own people. i was struck, ari, i love dennis' perspective on this, why the administration selected such a narrow approach to the fission. there was a phrase in the pentagon, don't waste a crisis. they could have expanded the target set to degrade assad's war making may sheen against his own people to try to change the balance of power and send a stronger signal to russia that hey, we need a different dynamic that erode's assad's power. >> ambassador? >> i think the administration was driven by concerns about escalation with the russians. th...

General, did any russian defenses engage u.s. or british or french ships or missiles and were any of the strikes intended to kill bashar al assad. >> the only reaction that i'm aware of at this time was syrian surface to air missiles. i happen to be down in military command center and was aware but i'm not aware of any russian activity or the full scope of the syrian regime response at this time. those will be detailed and pulled together in the morning. >> the targets tonight, again, were specifically designed to degrade the syrian war machines ability to create chemical weapons and to set th...

Intelligence have the torn ado jets and also submarines that are out in the mediterranean that have the capability to also watch tomahawk missiles. >> so let me ask you, colonel, with elements of russian military on the ground in syria, how much more difficult does this make -- do they bring some technology or equipment maybe to the table that syria wouldn't have access to? >> they bring tremendous >> if you look at the equipment the syrians are using, most of it -- much it it goes back to the soviet days. the system that the colonel just mentioned is a state-of-the-art world class system. it'...

This s 400. so i don't think the syrians would be very effective at knocking these things down. i did want to say after the excellent run-down of where things were, i just want to talk to the target set in damascus. you remember general mattis and general dunford said one of the things they took into consideration was the minimization of civilian casualties, and then they talked about striking these syrian scientific studies and research center. i lived in damascus and not too far from that area. this is right in the middle of a heavily densely populated area. and for us to put cruise missiles...

Message to the russians. the french even said they had provided warning to the russians. we did this a year ago and let the russians know very short period of time. the last thing we want to do is kill a bunch of russian troops in one of these syrian military installations and force the russians into some sort of response that they'll feel duty bound to make. >> that was the rieal risk, right? this could tip a domino and we'd have a real military situation on our hands with the russians and the iranians. thank god that doesn't appear to be the case as of this morning. >> that's true. that's wh...