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Conventional weapons in at least two areas in syria. that's significant. conventional weapons have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in this brutal seven-year war. u.s. commander meanwhile, have been examining satellite images of the weekend's air strikes, targeting three main sites, trying to work out were they effective? clearly they were tactically effective, because those sites have been destroyed, but what is the deterrent effect? interestingly, one syriaen army defector, a man who was an officer in syria's chemical weapons program set the strikes were limited, because they just hit ...

We certainly heard from am bass do haley. what levers are will evident. you look at what's happened up to this point. what does the path forward look like. >> that is the big question. what is the path forward if there's going to be regime change, as john bolden would like to see, what is syria after assad looked like. there was effort in the obama administration to bring ink multiple parties to the table, to have that diplomatic discussion. that's part of using all of the tools in the national security toolbox. unfortunately right now, with trump's reliance strictly on military measures, and ...

Says syria still has the means and the intent to use chemical weapons. now nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., has issued fresh warnings today repeating her locked-and-loaded phrase, but again saying to president assad today, we are watching, and warning russia as well, that new sanctions are coming against it as early as tomorrow. vice president mike pence says russia is in the wrong side of history, but russian lawmakers have been meeting president assad today, and russia is pledging to give syria new weapons, to update syria's surface-to-air missile systems, which date from the 19...

Would like to say. we, but those end up being mixed messages in the end. >> ambassador mcfall, let me for a use your, that russian television is showing war movies. does that square with your understanding of how things are? what's your sense of the conversations taking place in policyin diplomatic circles in russia, in light of what happened a couple days ago? >> well, i was in the administration during several years, david. i just recently wrote a book coming out, and the longest, more tortured chapter is about syria. we tried through the geneva process to have a settlement in

What exactly are america's goals going forward? nikki haley saying, by the way, again today that the u.s. will not leave syria until the goals are accomplished. she mentioned defeating isis. as for the other goals, that's the billing question, what exactly is u.s. policy in the future? david? >> bill neely in beirut for us. ambassador befall, let me -- we have an acting secretary of state, he's been in lima, peru, nikki haley, it strikes me, is or most high-parol file i want today. hocked and loaded is not a phrase you associate with