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What's your body of proof? ♪ ♪ the powerful backing of american express. don't live life without it. here our breaking news at this hour and cnn. president trump announcing airstrikes on blast regime's chemical weapons program. i want to bring in cnn military analyst major general james expired marks and cred rick lateen. colonel francona you have new information about the targets hit. what do you know? >> i've been monitoring syrian arabic language media. and there was a press release put out by the syrian military on the target set. and if it's to be believed -- so

Way. if you look at the target set. the target set was in the damascus area. there were only a two targets in the homs area. most of the russians, the senior russians and bulk of forces are in the northern part of the country. and also their air defenses are in the bulk of the northern part of the country. so we avoided a lot of the russian air defense as well. i think it was probably planned that way. hit the targets that you know aren't going to be that defended. hit the targets where you think the russians won't be. >> i'm getting -- colonel laiten. sustained response trump described could ...

Enough to punish syria, but not so hard that it would start a war with russia and iran. how do you think it did? >> yeah, i think they achieved that goal. if you look at the target set and it was interesting the syria media had the target set released before the western press did. they knew what was being struck. every one of the targets and there were ten had thing to do with the chemical weapons program. so the target set was very narrowly defined and they stuck to it. it included production facilities, research fats, storage falls two air bases involved in attacks and a couple brigades resp...

French ships or missiles? and were any of the strikes intended to kill ba sar -- bashar al-assaal-assad? >> those will be details we'll pull together for you in the morning. >> the targets tonight were specifically designed to degrade the syrian war machine's ability to create chemical weapons and to set that back right now. there were no attempts to broaden or expand that target set. and ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming in this evening. based on recent experience, we fully expect a significant disinformation campaign over the coming days by those who have aligned themselves with the...

Qatar. it was important that we talk to him as well. so that took time. second, i think there was some kind of -- there was probably substantial discussion inside the administration and across the river to determine what the target set was going to be, how extensive it would be and so on, and that took time as well. finally, i think one of the things that took time and made the attack occur now rather than earlier and why it may seem like it's coincident with some of the president's domestic difficulties was something that was mentioned in the briefing when it was asked whether or not the secr...