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Obama administration allowed them to build. they should be out of the middle east entirely. that's what sadat did when he expelled the soviet advisors. it was bipartisan american policy ever since to keep the russians out and obama let them back. in. steve: all right. ambassador john bolton joining us today from washington, d.c. thank you very much for your analysis on the u.s. tomahawk strike last night in syria. all right. it is 18 minutes now after the top of the hour. we're starting to get some reaction from capitol hill for the most part it is bipartisan support for the president. pete: t...

Talking to us about congress men and women who were not in favor of this decision necessarily because the president didn't go to them first to get authorization and said it is unlawful? >> the president has to have the ability to rapidly respond to situations like this. and part of the criticism is based in the falsehood that this has no national security need behind it. and the reason it's a falsehood because that air base in syria has been linked to hezbollah and the iranian revolutionary guards corps tsmght appears a threat to the united states to have an air base with the chemical weapons ...

Might do and put our pilots and our navy personnel and our soldiers on the ground at risk. so i think that's incredibly important. and then we also didn't mother may i to the russians like we have the last 8 years. pete: colonel, a lot of people looking at this strike very targeted precision strike against one facility based on chemical use. >> right. pete: there is also speculation about the future of assad: could we have taken out all of his air assets and airfields? what's the tipping point to weaken him enough to put anymore in the corner so he doesn't use chemical weapons and destabilizin...

Destroyed all the chemical stockpiles in syria that we know and gone further and taken out more of the syrian air force. this was the strike he ordered. i think it was a very clear signal. the ball is in moscow's court and assad's court. steve: sure. what about the fact that the images that came out tuesday of the people from syria who were killed with this poison gas attack, obviously, with this strike, the president is showing, look, there is a new sheriff in town. i'm going to protect the people of syria. do the safe zones that donald trump then candidate and now president, do the safe zone...

>> good to see you. >> does he sign off? >> he has authority to do it on his own. it's a smart move to consult congress. the only thing that's a shame, he should have consulted congress before he started making threats pout red line. we lost credit able because he made threats he may not be able to deliver on. that's really the problem here. >> that line, red line. it might have even been an ad lib. is that something you don't do? is that the lesson we learn here? >> i think even kids in the schoolyard learn not to use red line. if you're not doing to back up a threat, you don't make the threa...