working to set the conditions for the united nation's backed geneva process to succeed and we look forward to working with united nations envoy to syria, in an effort to maintain transparency, mckenzie will provide a detailed overview of the actual operations. >> thanks. ladies and gentlemen, good morning. i'm going to spend the next couple minutes talking of the military details and the strikes last night. could i get the first graphic up, please. as you heard from the president of united states and directly from this room, secretary mattis and dunford. they conducted a proportional, precision, coordinated strike in response to the syrian regime's use of chemical weapons. this combined strike was directed against three distinct chemical weapons targets. i'm going to show them to you in