syrian area on a strike that killed innocent children. displaced 6.3 million more and forced another 5 million to flee. straight to our cnn military analyst lieutenant colonel francona and fred, begin with you. this statement wasn't unusual from the white house saying the assad regime would face a heavy price. is a ostensibly a red line? >> sounds like a red line. interesting it was issued by the white house and not in conjunction with the pentagon. in fact, we have no information from the pentagon why the white house actually issued this statement or where this information comes from. but if you look more closely at the statement, they do say that preparations have allegedly been detected, that could be similar to the ones ahead of the attack that happened in early april. of course, that was the one we were just seeing the pictures with devastating consequences on those many civilians out there