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Because in that strike we gave the president gave a little bit of warning before he conducted that strike. it was less than a couple of hours. right now, you now have a warning where russian air defense systems can be turned on, people can prepare, bases can be unmanned, so you have a whole lot different perspective, and plus, if you send a man strike in, you would have to send in not only the bombers and the fighters but you'd also have to send in the jammers to make sure those russian air defense systems, which are pretty prevalent across syria, don't get turned on. >> david, what are your t...

The tomahawk strike that he took out a month ago would send a clear signal to assad to stop using chemical weapons against his people. clearly if what they're saying last night is true, his tomahawk strike did not act as a deterre deterrent. as we lob more missiles into syria, as we put more u.s. troops inside syria, we are locking those people into that humanitarian catastrophe. if we were allowing people to flee and helping refugees and get to jordan and lebanon and bringing them to the united states, maybe more of us would be supportive of these military activities. this seems incredibly cr...

Administration is showing strength as opposed to what we saw with president obama and his lack of action. >> bret: the reason that i say it's bluster likely, they are looking at the turkish situation where the turks shot down a russian fighter jet. couple weeks later, russia and turkey were a-ok. >> when we did the tomahawk strike on the airbase, the russians said we are ending cooperation appeared we are going to have a free-for-all in the skies. didn't happen. the cooperation continued. nonetheless i think we're headed into a much more dangerous. back, the reason is that the isis phase of th...

According to a senior defense official, coalition air strikes targeted probe regime units operating in the vicinity of an airbase in the south of syria after a show of force to try to stop that probe regina forces was ignored, a coalition commander took the decision to hit regina -- probe regina sources and a "well-established conviction zone" peered the coalition commander assessed the threat then afterward shows of force did not stop the regime forces and those forces refused to move out of this "deconfliction zone." the commander on the ground called for an air strike as a matter of force p...

Issue. only the u.s. has the power to help. >> there was a real sense that last week's tomahawk strike at a genuine effect on the strength, at least from geopolitical standpoint. on the ground, the battle is as brutal as ever. >> new mexico invention, thank you. the top man at the pentagon says there is no doubt syria's government was behind it. defense secretary jim mattis has issued a warning. good evening, jennifer. >> defense secretary mattis stop short of blaming anyone other than the syrian regime for the chemical weapons attack exactly a week ago today. he would not say it, when asked, ...