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Is a conservative and he never will be. deploy 160,000 troops into iraq. he is not going to do that into syria. this isn't about our president. he has no desire to do nation building. that's the farthest thing from his mind. so that sentiment remains. and i find it really disappointing that whether you are on the left or on the right. i have been up on twitter all night arguing with people who say they are conservative. whether you are on the left or the right, you have to understand this is a different geopolitical reality and this isn't 2003. and this isn't iraq. this is a very different sit...

Retired green beret commanders lieutenant waltz and army special forces veteran jim hanson of the securities studies group. thank you for joining us this morning. general newton, let me start with you. first of all, your response to the level of fire power, the -- was the response commensurate with the violation? >> i believe it was. particularly it was a much more complex, i think a more lethal strike than what we saw last april of 2017. it's a measured response. i think it's been an effective response. we're going to be going through our battle damage assessment right now. we will be hearing...

Griff: president says he is not interventionist but this is the second time he has taken action in syria. why does he feel it's so important to take this action? pete: joining us now is dr. sebastian gorka fox news security strategist and deputy assistant to president trump. you are a perfect guest for this morning. a strike like, this take us inside the mind set and decision cycle of this president as he chooses to strike assad for the second time. >> well, first things first, peter. the president is not a man of the mold of president bush. he's not an intervention interr. he iinterrist --int...

North korea, what message does this send to north korea? the president obviously looking next month to sit down with kim jong un. >> one of the considerations for this strike was the message that it would send to regimes like north korea and to russia, specifically for the usage of chemical weapons even in the very limited context we have seen of assassinations. so this does reinforce that bright red line well outside the boundaries of syria. it also shows the administration is willing to follow through on threats. much of our foreign policy and national security based gloms is all about the c...

This because some of the president's supporters said he ran on nonintervention and america first. why are we bombing countries in the middle east? what's your take on how this settles within the president's perspective? >> you know, it's a fair question. and i'm a big supporter of the president. i'm also a big supporter of us kind of dialing back our global commitments militarily. so it's tough for me to reconcile. you know, i think it's kind of one of these foxconner's rules of war scenario. don't go for war alone and don't don't go longer than you have to. i don't know that we absolutely had...