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7th strike. so from that we've gone forward and we're trying to figure out just how close they might be towards an attack and the last couple hours, craig, it seems like officials here are walking it back, saying this is a warning, this isn't a declaration of intent by the united states military to hit the assad regime. but they clearly want to put them and as nikki haley was saying the russians on notice. >> first we had that statement via twitter from sean spicer, then the tweet by ambassador hailey followed up by the testimony this morning. how serious of a warning is this and is it likely ...

>> mary, as a former inspector general, what do you make of all of this? >> well, i think a lot of the response now is kind of a cya, you know, for example, there is a public outcry. how could you possibly clear 239 people other than the pilot and the co-pilot, of course, you know in such a short span of time. and now they're walking it back, particularly since the fbi released their data, saying we didn't find anything about the pilot or the co-pilot, they're not mass murderers. if they were so clear about what they told everybody why didn't they speak up when they spent days searching in the...

Issues. i think for herman cain, he's going to have a real problem out there. he's riding high in the polls now. but he articulated a real pro-choice view earlier in the week last week and he's going to have a real problem trying to walk back from that. >> now, dana, he certainly -- in very clear language, stated that it was someone's choice, the parents' choice. he's walking it back, which gives him a problem with this crowd who, as nia said and you've concurred deals with these kind of issues. the other problem is once you come out of iowa and face the rest of the country in the republican p...

Of the ones taken last night when this happened. the bus had 24 passengers, going as far as fort pierce, authorities looking for a person who opened fire with the best description they have of that suv. back to you. jenna: we'll stay on it harris, back to you. gregg: secretary of defense gates says he plans to retire sometime in 2001. mr. gates, who has served seven american presidents says he will likely leave the pentagon sometime next year. bret baier, anchor of "special report" joins us. he made the remarks to foreign policy magazine, bret, but now the press secretary is walking it back, s...