Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal President Trumps Air Strikes On Syria 20170407

Launched by the United States against syria. If you support the strike, 202 7488000. If you oppose it, 202 7488001. If you are not sure about the strikes and ultimately what it will mean for that area of the world, 202 7488002. If you want to tweet about this to us, post at cspan wj, and if you want to post on our facebook page, it is facebook. Com cspan. Last night it was President Trump at maralago who made a statement to press about the strikes that took lace yesterday. Place yesterday. Tuesday, syrian dictator Bashar Alassad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilian. Agent, deadly nerve assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Werebeautiful babies cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of god should ever suffer such horror. Tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. Vital National Security interests of the united deter theprevent and spread and use of deadly chemical weapon. There can be no dispute that chemicald banned weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the un Security Council. Years of previous attempts at ssads behavior have failed and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight i call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in syria. Terrorism ofend all kinds and all types. Wisdom as weds face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed. And we hope that as long as america stands for justice, then peace and harmony will in the end prevail. Good night, and God Bless America, and the entire world. Thank you. Placefrom the president s at maralago, that statement occurring last night. ,ince then, a couple of updates specifically the Russian Militarys response, saying it will help syria strengthen its air defenses after the u. S. Strike. That is from the Associated Press. Aids. Official says operations are currently unaffected by the missile strike on the air base. You can call on the lines stay on them. If you are calling us, we will get to shortly. To give us an update on the president s use of force in as a whiteing us house reporter from Bloomberg News to give us the latest. Guest thank you. Host the president called this a vital National Security interest. Can you go further about what he believes that interest is to the u. S. . ,uest i am here in palm beach following the store yesterday and speaking with the number of u. S. Officials who echoed that sentiment from the president that the use of chemical weapons is so far afield from normal, that the u. S. Felt compelled to take action. The president said it is in the vital interest of the United States to make sure that chemical weapons are not used normally in the battlefield. He felt that he needed to take the step to send this message not only to the syrian president , but to the Global Community that of chemical weapons are used there will be consequences. While these chemical weapons were not used against the united typically,ur allies the use of chemical weapons against civilians is a war crime. The president wanted to send a message that the u. S. Will take action when that happens and he felt it was in the international interest. Host when did we see the change in thinking . Earlier they put out statements about standing with the community and calling for solidarity with other members of the world about this attacked, but when was the change in heart and mind, and what was part of that process . Guest as you know, the president is a very serious consumer of media and he saw the same images that everyone else in the country with the, images of Young Children and women the, dealing with the effects of a chemical agent that was used. He said see those images, seeing what he called beautiful babies being killed changed his calculus, changed his mind. He has warned in the past against military action in faraway lands but obviously getting the National Security intelligence he get, it changed his calculus and he felt he needed to do something. Heheard him say repeatedly would not say what he was going to do in advance, but he started to hit that something hint that something would happen. To change his calculus, seeing the images and the effect of what had happened in syria. It was a very swift change from his previous policies of nonintervention. He was presented with options by his National Security team and was pretty swift in approving those options, within 48 hours of the chemical strike. You saw the u. S. Taking action against those airfield. Host we have the strike taking place but are you learning about officials from officials about what happens now . Guest we are still waiting to get a better sense of that we spoke to the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, last night who said the public should not read into this that this is a change in overall policy for the syrian conflict. This is not a sign that the u. S. Is going to start sending a mass number of troops on the ground or trying to topple the regime by force. There is a big question about what happens after this. It does seem to be that the u. S. Wanted to send the message that assad will not have free range to use chemical weapons, but it is not clear what happens if syria continues these types of weapons, or other weapons against civilian populations, what happens with the relationship with russia, which obviously is backing the Syrian Regime and was not happy the u. S. Took this unilateral action. There could be some changes into the relationship there. We have been trying to avoid any conflict with russia on the battlefield in syria, and it seems like that may be under threat now that we have taken this action. It is not necessarily clear how this is going to play out and what the u. S. Is going to do after this strike leads to whatever global reverberation are caused by taking this unilateral action. Host your story this morning goes a little further, saying this strike sends a message to other countries as well. What are those countries and what is the message . Guest you have to remember this actually happened in the middle of one of President Trumps most important bilateral meetings with the chinese president and florida. Supposed to be a get to know you heting but in the middle sends this huge message to the global stage that he is willing to take unilateral action, to send a message to north korea which President Trump said in an interview last week he would be willing to take action on his own to stop north korea about obtaining a nuclear missile. That is something he was supposed to be talking with the chinese president about, helping the chinese getting the chinese to help curb north Koreas Nuclear ambitions so it probably sends the message to north korea, to the russians who were hoping when President Trump was elected that there would be better relations. I think that hope has largely faded. It would send a message to the chinese that the president is willing to interrupt and overshadow this important meeting to conduct his strike. Largely it would overshadow anything to come out of the meeting. It probably also sends a message to iran as well, another backer of the a shot assad machine regime. It sends a message that maybe the u. S. Is willing to take action there as well if the president believes they are obtaining a weapon that he is not, he finds to be not acceptable. It does reverberate all around the world and it will be interesting to see how Different Countries react in the hours ahead today. Host do you expect any more information from the president , secretary of state, or anyone in the administration about the strike and what happened next westmark next . Guest there are several reporters in palm beach, florida , and we will be pressing for those answers. He came tomorrow lago with four or five of his top security he came to maralago with four or five of his top security advisers and we are waiting to hear the next steps, whether it be from leaders at the pentagon or National Security leaders, including the secretary of state that is here, and the National Security adviser as well as a number of top aides to the president. They have had some time to digest this strike and we are hoping to hear the Damage Assessment the pentagon has made , and what the next steps may be diplomatically and what the impact is on this meeting with the chinese president , who obviously the chinese are probably not too happy with the idea that the president took unilateral action against the syrian leader during the meeting with the chinese president. Were expecting to hear all of this in the middle of this meeting with the chinese president , and we will have some opportunities to see the president meeting with the chinese today and he will be asked about the strike. One reporter host a White House Reporter in florida covering the president and discussing the strikes on syria, thank you for your time this morning. Guest thanks. Host your calls for three hours this morning, no guess, we will guests. R no guess 202 7488000 for those who support the strikes, 202 7488001 for those who oppose it, 202 7488002 for those who are not sure. Samuel is in alaska, opposing the strikes. Caller i want to say first real quick, happy april 8, ninth, and 10th. I want to say for trump to go on television and talk about beautiful babies being massacred which is ironic, when one of his first acts was to massacre a bunch of beautiful girls in yemen who were such a threat to National Security. Killingve a hand to little girls to protect our freedom. What a joke. Host eric is next from maryland on the line for folks who support the strike. Caller good morning, cspan. I agree with the gentleman from alaska. He is talking about innocent babies. The first strike, he was authorized under obama. It was not even through trump. Now when it comes to these strikes in syria, at least we know that we have a man in the white house now. He drew a redline and he and forced the redline. The only language people like assad here is the language of force. We learned something, trump tried to work with russia and the have already signaled their opposition. Assad, sobe helping the world now has to make a choice because something has to be done. Thank you. Host what do you think about, as our guest talked about, future relations with russia, concerns with north korea . How do you think those situations will be did by the actions from yesterday . Caller russia, the president tried to work with russia he really tried hard to start a fresh relationship with russia, and the response to the strike tells everything. Russia is not going to work with the United States. Russia will always oppose the United States. President trump tried to work with other countries who are willing to tackle not only a sod sad, but to take on north korea and russia because they are threats to security. Not doing anything is not the solution. Someone needs to do something. Host from oxford, massachusetts, on our oppose line, carl. Caller donald trump is acting just as obama would or hillary would where bush. I am totally against this. This is very, very dangerous. Since when does he care about innocent children . Come on, give me a break. The guy is not my president. I better stop talking before i use host specifically what do you oppose . Guest what are we doing the caller what are we doing there . I do not know what we are doing their. I bet you donald trump does not even know what we are doing there. Let a sod take care of it assad take care of it. Do you think they want isis . Syria israel the doorstep of russia. Rightavent syria is on the doorstep of russia. We do not have any business over there unless it is oil or pipeline. As far as humanitarian or innocent people, he does not care. Host david in macintosh, new mexico supports the strike. Caller good morning, cspan. Some interesting calls. I do definitely support the move. I think it was incisive, bold, direct, sends a message. I certainly support that. I think that to allow us to the on, we have had to go have had so much that has not been addressed. When you have got people that are constantly pushing like russia has been doing, we helped them a great deal after world war ii just like we help them. At least germany seems to have some gratitude for that. Russias reaction was to turn right around and support north korea. As china did. , think the past hundred years if you look at russia and their behavior, right now they are apporting a sod in iraq ssad and iran and i do not think they have done anything to curb back isis. They had an agreement time after time after time. I just think that we need to push back and i think the time is now. It has got to happen sooner or later. None of us like war and hopefully that can be avoided. There is a better chance to avoid that by acting now and making our statement, saying this is not going to happen. You are doing these type of cruelties toward women and elderly people, and especially Young Children and babies, that is a nightmare. Host david in new mexico. The Associated Press reported that a syrian officials said the missile strike on that base has killed seven people. That is the governor of the area where the base is located, and said the attacks also wounded nine. The attack also caused an extensive damage to the air base. The Syrian Military calling the attack a blatant aggression that would undermine its war on terror. Dans camino, assistant to donald trump posting a picture with secretary of state Rex Tillerson after Donald Trumps statement yesterday, Rex Tillerson made a statement about the attacks and what it means for u. S. Policy. I think in this particular case, the use of prohibited chemical weapons which violates a number of International Norms and violates existing agreements, called for this type of a response. This is a kinetic military response. I would not in any way attempt to extrapolate this to a change in our policy relative to military activities in syria. There has been no change in that. I think it does demonstrate that President Trump is willing to act when governments and actors crossed the line. They crossed the line in the most heinous of ways. I think it is clear and President Trump made that statement to the world tonight. Host we will hear from michael, columbia, maryland, who is not sure about the attacks. Caller i actually do support the actual action. I am not sure about what the overwhelming response, or how it is going to play out in the long run, and that is my biggest concern. ,learly we do not like assad but toppling a dictator in the middle east does not always lead to a vibrant democracy. 3. 0, andad to isis then what are we going to do . Then will be stuck with another terrorist nation that we do not know how to handle. I think it is important that we do set a line that it is not ok to use chemical weapons. I do not know how getting rid of assad is going to strengthen that region. Host the office of the present president commenting, denouncing the u. S. Strikes, calling it reckless, irresponsible behavior. That is from the Associated Press. Carol says President Trump is getting praised for the action he took against syrias despicable use of poison gas. Another viewer asking the question what is the long game in syria . Cspan at wj is how you post. You can call us on the lines this morning. Gary is from new york and he opposes yesterdays attack. Caller pedro, lets talk about the motivation of whoever used those chemical devices. The last one in the world to do domething like that is the assa government because they were winning the Syrian Civil War with russias help and irans help. Isis was on its heels. The Syrian Rebels were on its heels. The government was acquiring more and more of the syrian territory. The last one in the world to use that to inflame the west and give them a chance to intervene was the Assad Government. In listening to msnbc, cnn, even the fox channel, including the trunk haters come trump haters, not one newscaster, not one is saying, is making the analysis like im i am. Adat in the world with the ass government have to gain . They are making the assumption that is going to come out that perhaps the government was not guilty, but they are all making the assumption. Nobody is questioning who in the world is doing it, including our representative at the u. N. I think a lot of people made just be surprised. Perhaps a dirty trick, to up even by our own cia permit the United States to intervene, because our plan all along going back to the obama administration, was regime change in syria. Host lets move on to steve, ridgeway, pennsylvania, supports the strike. Caller that was quite a stress from our last caller, the cia coordinated the attack. Support the attack tenets of our country is strength, and when we show weakness which the Previous Administration was mired in, then the world follows that lead. Broad minds in the sand drawing lines in the sand and allowing that line to be crossed, allowing hundreds of isple to be slaughtered close to the adage that bad things happen when good men do nothing. I think americans are a country of good men and good women and good people, all across the political spectrum. And to do what is right is to stop rings like this. Of the United States has acted in a very decisive manner, and i think it is going to make a difference in how things play out in the middle east. Host do you think there is unintended consequences, especially relations with russia, iran, north korea . Caller of course there is. There is always unintended consequences when something happens like this. For me to speculate or for anyone to speculate what is the long range plan, and the talking heads the media want to know what the plans are. Sometimes things have to be kept secret. N dwight thousand how are eisenhower and president roosevelt planned the dday invasion, they kept the germans off their game. The idea that we have to trigger and signal what we are going to do in any type of military action is just asinine and beyond compare, to me. Host that is steve in pennsylvania, thanks for the call. Putesentative seth moulton out a joint statement with Steve Russell on the attack and highlighted the fact that both those representatives have served in iraq, saying we cannot stand by in silence as dictators murder children with chemical weapons but acting without goals and objectives gets us nowhere. We look forward to hearing the president present a plan for syria to the American People for congress to agree on bipartisan action, and for america to partner with the world to bring this tragic consequence to an end. 60 missiles were launched from the uss ross and uss porter within a period of minutes, taking place yesterday. Taking your calls on the reaction to the strikes in syria , and what it means for future actions in that country, future relations in the middle east. 202 7488000 if you support the strikes. 202 7488001 if you oppose them. If you are not sure, 202 7488002. , we willt sure line hear from dan in massachusetts. Caller thank you for having me on this morning. That was quite a contrast on your last two callers, but what i would like to say about that is it gives us a little snapshot of our country. I am sure both of those people that called, one totally opposed to what happened and one for what happened, i am sure they both love their country. Is, one ofifference them was stating factual ,vidence and factual history and the other one was based on feeling. I tell you, those feelings, they are hard. When you are presented with some information that roxio world about health rocks your world about how things work, it is becausetake that pill you have a certain worldview of helping work. How things work. When you are challenged with your world view and you decide to put your wall down and look at facts, and look at things objectively, i think as a country that is where we are failing us. Americans, we should be Strong Enough to put down our wall on some built up belief over time as we have been kids, and look at things factually, look at things how they happen. The one test and look at things factually. Things how they happen. The one caller at one point i bring out is what would the possible motivation be of syria to launch these Chemical Attacks when the news been reporting how they have recapturing head their sovereign country. So we have to look at whats here and watching our media this morning, praise trump about lobbing all these missiles disgusting. Lets all wake up as human beings of twitter, franklin himself, he calls 90 million wasted so that trump can pound himself but no money healthcare. Richard says not a vital National Security interest to syria over the chemical attack. Issue. A vital humanity james is next. Caller hey. How you doing . My call. For taking host go ahead. Youre on. Aller ive called before and you took my calls. Told you that President Trump was going to wake up america and he did. It. Did a strong s taking stance on protecting all of us United States. We should be able to well, i cant say it but he can other countries can of this situation. Host heres a satellite photo question thatd in was struck yesterday. Reports to 60 weapons that as far as the damage done as far as neffective an airfield purpose is concerned. The Washington Post highlighting some of the other reforces in that area of the world saying that the United States has a broad including the region the georgeircraft on h. W. Bush. One deployed to the middle east. Missile destroyers own cruisers. Additionally, a naval force in the 24th includes and e expeditionary unit the pentagon has aircraft in the including from the air base in the north in turkey. Next is mark. Mark is from columbus, ohio who opposes the actions from yesterday. Go ahead, mark. Good morning. This is ridiculous. Is the sameago this person who told the sitting president he was doing the right by not doing anything. Same person who told the president three years ago seek permission from congress to do it. He did nothing like that. Just a contradiction in his own skin. Liar. He never tells the truth. His is nothing but a distraction from the stupid stuff he was doing to get elected. Experts are saying this will change nothing in syria. Then . O it this is total absurdity. And man needs to be checked checked hard. Thank you, sir. Host heres deborah from new the act. So opposing caller yeah. My main thing is the main stream for the past night and this morning, theyre all, like, cheering. Use our go back and history on this issue. Tends toall, everybody parrot messaging by the media. Ssad has been fighting because of the chaos that the American Government under the obama created when has we went ahead and funded the create chaos who did all the killing. Question why hirschs investigation sarin attack in syria ound it was not perpetrated by the Syrian Government at all. Of as found to be the work an al quaeda division and found a quote that was in his article which was put into the london review because ur main stream newspapers wouldnt put it in. New yorker magazine and Washington Post did not publish the account. It from the london review. Nusra cally said al mechanics of making sarin. Also in that will article which was fact checked by the new yorker, basically they talked about how the obama pickedtration had cherry intelligence. Why are we making the same istake over and over without having the full story and facts . Nd the media just pumps it out as if, yeah, assad did the chemical attack on his own people. Sense. S no they were making headway against isis and the rebel groups that create the chaos in syria. Eople have to start educating themselves. Host thats deborah in new jersey. Candidate idential Hillary Clinton even yesterday sked about what should be done about isis syrian airfields in syria in tion relation to the chemical attack. She was asked this last night. Response. Assad has an air force and is the cause of most of the civilian deaths as have seen over the years and s we saw again in the last few days. We i really believe that should have and still should take out his airfields and being able to m use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them. Host reportedly, this statement attacks ce before the rom yesterday which were focusing on for our program today, no guests just your mills, amar from hope North Carolina supports the action. Next. Caller i support the president in that he has sent out a other countries that is ready to ates our wayhose that oppose of life. Im a combat veteran from vietnam. Support it. Im a recipient of the purple heart. 100 . Ort him host charles is next. Is not sure. Calls us from oklahoma. Why. Us caller good morning. Through. I got call me something of a sinnic see this as a case of possibly the president trying to criticism from other things going on right now the investigation into trumprussia collusion possibility. Hes throwing out things like unmasking was doing or obama was doing surveillance. Going to end are up being untrue. And, you know, we struck over like to ask ould is. T our purpose if we think about the powell doctrine, what is our national here . St when we commit forces, there must be something that were trying to accomplish. To have an exit strategy. O im not really sure what the strategy is here. But if were really worried about children dying, lets look africa. 1. 4 million children right now n several countries including somalia and nigeria are in of starvation. So if you really want to help children, theres other places do this host several members of congress tweeting about yesterday. In particular asking the president about matters of authorization. Is senator rand paul who tweeted yesterday while we all the atrocities in syria, the United States was not attacked. Caller International Decisions always difficult nd fraught with difficulty but the reason i think i support the strike is that its a ulmination of six or seven years of conflict in which weapons haveemical been used and russian aggression ukraine now o supporting assad and i think they have a role to play in and National Diplomacy affairs. He violation of human rights and the humanitarian disaster related to chemical weapon use justification to send a signal and of course i think there are people who are questions about the appropriateness of it but i think it was important to point we are we as the de defenders of liberal ought to you know, response tortionate indicate our displeasure and there are certain things that cannot be tolerated sphere. Nternational talking about sovereignty 2. 0 which is when a ountry violates the rights of its people in such an egregious has done, you know, there is a responsibility civilized world to entially do something that do something about it. I tend to agree with that viewpoint. Go to ot let the world chaos if i think were on the history on this one. Who from rob in new york opposes the act. Hello. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan and for call. My i cant believe that trump fell for that. Didnt doe that assad it. He had nothing to do with it. Had nothing to gain. Disappointed. If i just see nothing but wars. Ing doesnt matter which party is in charge. The u. S. Of twitter, should have done this long before because seven years of civil war more than half a lives syrians t lives. Eir caller good morning. I agree with deborah in new jersey. Shes absolutely right. People need to do their Research Start supporting the actions of our government. This is t the reason trump said that hes into syria, look at americas actions over the last 20 years. War. Been in been killing babies in iraq, yemen, libya. You know, you cant say that doing this to protect children. I just totally disagree with this action. Ts not going to do anything for the American Public except kill more of our young men and omen and continue the constant war. Its just making money and thats all it is. Thank you. A statement from the Foreign Ministry of russia concerning the acts of yesterday United States the conducted strikes against the Syrian Government troops in the early hours. Force ted for a show of for military action against a country fighting International Terrorism without taking the to get the facts straight. Its not the first time the u. S. Irresponsible approach that aggravates problems the world is facing. Of military ence personnel from the u. S. And in syria is an egregious and obvious violation that cannotonal law be justified. Russia has expressed it was resolving operate on the most urgent issues in the world today and that fighting toprnational terrorism is a priority. However, we will never agree to action against the legitimate Syrian Government. Is saying that it is going to suspend a deal with the to prevent midair incidents over syria in response to the strike from yesterday. It lives in f memphis, tennessee. This is james. Ahead. Go youre on. Caller thank you for taking my call. First off, i believe that the in the a very decision making. Previous caller talked about fascism. I disagree. Im pretty sure that most of the world believes this is the right thing done. Taking my call. Host from jim who lives in maine. Opposes the act. Go ahead, jim. Yes, good morning. I totally oppose it. One, we have a problem with not following the constitution. Thats one of the biggest issues. Been going on for years. Trump. St with president you cannot just decide by yourself to bomb a country. You have to go to congress and declaration of war because the president is not allowed to declare war. Allowed to direct war once ts been authorized but you cannot declare war as president. Cant do it. An act of war. The sources for this information, this is what so ens when you react quickly. No one even knows the full story. Ngo two sources, one was an in britain whos not even allowed into the country and the other source is the white alongside al rked terrorist group. And if we care so much about children, how about the sanctions that were imposed in during the 90s that killed anywhere up to 200,000 to and they said that that was worth the price and most of them were children. Picking which n children are more important. Its hypocrital. Hypocrite cal ical iii he himself the president tweeted in 2013 when the obama debating how was to respond to syrian sarin attack that killed civilians then, the white house needed approval from the legislature to strikes against assad. The president did not mention his authorization in ordering he strikes thursday night but did say this is a vital National Security interest of the united the s to prevent and deter spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. John mccaine praised the strikes saying congress should authorization for the use of military force which llows action in specific circumstances. Up next, anthony from minnesota sure. Hes not go ahead. Caller hello. They sically sure that should not have done it because like they said someone said earlier theyre cherry picking bomb but the biggest problem that i have with this is that we did not have any problem, the United States didnt have any problem with israel killing 3,000 people in gaza. Mean, we have also to look at ur own government where were poisoning our own people in michigan. I mean, weve got all kinds of hings going on and were sitting up and i really dont believe that syria did it. Could see trump doing Something Like this. I mean, like so many other expressed, it is about money. Merica if you look back an these major wars we havent had a lot of moneyke for corporations. Looking at to start that trump regime is racist. They constantly pick at nonwhite countries and threaten them constantly. Back to your thought statement of you think syria didnt do it. What convinces you of that . The thing about it is i just feel like our government interfering with a lot of countries around the world. Fare done the same thing so as elections too but now we are having this big uproar about it. Anthony from minnesota. In this calling morning. Thursday the organization for he prohibition of chemical weapons noted while its Team Chemical weapons declared by the Syrian Government, Member States have questions with regards to the completeness and correctness syrias declaration. A group within the opcw has been tasked with trying to make independently sure that the its n government reported entire stocks and programs through the opcw said thursday with actively engaged syrian authorities in addressing discrepancies. The organizations warnings have grown more urgent in recent months. Mr. Assads government appeared to be using deadly agents which areas to try lying to root out rebels sheltering rom conventional munitions in bunkers and basements. Given the psychological impact he weapons may have been deployed with specific intention to terrorize opponents of the regime. California, youre next up. A supporter of the action. Go ahead. Caller i am. Support the action. Led by these pal callers opposing this. About money. K its its not about money. Ow many years weve been going to under obama, he said he had a line and nothing ever happened. These babies and this other caller calling about these everywhere aq and else. You know what, its about time that we the United States, were a sovereign nation. We are not allowed and should have people d to like assad and north korea and entities looking at us like were weak. This is sending a clear message our enemies that if you mess with the United States youre sleeping ake up a giant do you think d, that the actions even in a foreign country fits with the of Donald Trumps America First policy and do you hink it fits in with that general philosophy that the president has . Caller yes, i do. Is that ife the fact we continue to allow this to happen, theyre just going to us like were weak and that our words dont mean anything. Its empty words. And just like our president said, whether they want to liberals or not, continue to bash him, you know what, hes showing hes the of the United States doesnt georgia. s go to caller good morning. Host good morning. If this is el like deja vu again. Goings onnternational more so than i do domestic. Ut i can tell you that i see the pattern. Here in 2013 its so funny that 2013 when al assad when they to blame him for the chemicals, it happened at the time that the u. N. Was coming to inspect. Now, why would he in 2013 when coming in u. N. Was to inspect that they used them. Again regarding this time. President trump was saying that they were not assadto try to get rid of and then here we go again with this chemical. On january 14th, the they had shown had found raqi army in mosul where eye schis had sed the university of mosuls lab to create chemical weapons. Is deja vu. Vote for trump but here hes wrong. And its not just about money. About money just whats going on. Its about syria, iraq, libya, three countries have they supported hamas israel. Thats the real thing. Why theyre trying to get rid of assad. With nothing to do children or how hes treating his people. Favors. Rt big you pport saudi arabia who cannot even be a christian in that country. So this is not about people and rights and freedom. All. Not about that at host okay. Thats a caller from marietta, georgia. Of the people on the news programs last night was a california talking about yesterdays actions alking about matters of authorization. Here he is. One of the concerns i have i certainly ions, think it was on the range of military options one of the more limited actions. It didnt utilize aircraft. Idnt risk loss of life of our pilots. Evidently they also did vet theng they could to site to make sure there would is be casualties but it obviously a very abrupt change of course by the administration from just a few days ago when basically its up to the Syrian People to decide who of syria n the leader iraqis, and ns, involved. Were its the first time we got a sense that the president his nized the gravity of office because those were the same photos president obama was confronted with and of course trump had a very different reaction when he wasnt the commander in chief. Now he is. But i would strongly caution the administration not to make this a military effort to change the regime. Fully concur that the regime has to go because as long as assad is there that fighting go on, that terrible war is going to go on but this is not something that can be air at a ed via the standoff location at most we can the that this will deter regime from using chemical weapons again. Hat is probably the most significant thing you could hope for as well as a deterrent to in the future by using chemical weapons but theres still a lot of issues to one of them for the congress is all of this is being done not just the attack presence of our troops there, all this is being congressional y vote or authorization and Congress Really needs to deal with this. Is congressmanat adam house intelligence talkinge Ranking Member authorization. Hough changed the rules now they changed the rules now. Simple majority vote is all thats needed to put neil gorsuch on the Supreme Court. 9 30. Rocess starting at watch for it on cspan 2. Ou can go to our cspan. Org website and also view it and listen to it courtesy of our cspan radio app. Always go to the website to take a look at a lot of things going on especially after the of yesterday. Cspan. Org is where you see that. You go to the website, they post the story taking a look at the white tters of house saying that President Trumps considering a broad of his white house that could include the replacement of chief of staff and the departure of steve according to aides and advisors, the story says a top trump says ident hes contemplating the changes and the situation is fluid and uncertain. Quote, things are happening but its unclear if the president is willing to pull that trigger and goes on from there. Axios. Com is where you find that story. For the oclock and last hour weve been taking your calls. Aking a look at this action in syria. Weve shown you the video already of missiles being two u. S. Rom these ships towards that air base in syria. Be a big part of what occurred yesterday. That action took place last night. He following two hours of our program are going to take your calls on it. The president making this announcement last night. What he had to say. Al assad launched a horrible weapons attack on innocent civilians. A deadly nerve agent, of d choked out the lives helpless men, women, and children. T was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were murdered in this very attack. O child of god should ever suffer such horror. Onight ive ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield where the chemical attack was launched. Is in this Vital National interest of the united deter the revent and spread and use of deadly weapons. There can be no dispute that used banned chemical eapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored of the u. N. Security council. Previous attempts are changing as far as behavior have failed and failed very bra matticly. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the continues to destabilize threatening the United States its allies. Tonight i call on all civilized to join us in seeking to blood s slaughter and shed in syria. To end terrorism of all all types. We ask for gods wisdom as we the challenge of our very troubled world. Lives of the e wounded and for the souls of passed. O have and we hope that as long as stands for justice, then eace and harmony will in the end prevail. God bless america and the entire world. Thank you. T host thats the president from yesterday making that statement. Gain, we want to get your thoughts in our next hour. Next two hours actually, so yesterday. Es from support the0 if you strikes. Speak to the former also ador to morocco and the former middle east advisor to president carter. Reaction from last night . Guest i agree with the action taken. Sident has this is the fifth chemical weapons attack that the assad inflicted ever since john kerry touted an agreement that he reached with the remove assads hemical weapons. I believe in the end the question isnt hether or not this will deter assad from using the weaponry that hes using because its not just chemical weapons. The atrocities committed by the his own people pale in comparison to what weve over ver since isis took in syria. He magnitude of atrocities deserves a response and the president apparently is going to arn bipartisan support host as far as next steps, suspect r, what do you mielth happen . Weve heard from Rex Tillerson this was an at isolated attack but what are the next steps now especially assad regime . Guest the question is whether or not the assad regime will be deterred from using additional chemical weapons against his own people. Point one. We dont know that. The administration and its night made it clear that its reserving the right to continue to use these attacks against the regime but i think the broader is the conflicting signals that came out of the s inistration about assad longevity. Just last week the United States ambassador to the u. N. Said that it was not a priority of the see assad go. To i wrote a piece in the days ago post two questioning it was entitled assad gassed his way to indispensability. My point in that article is that continues to nflict terrible regional atrocities. Isis is on the run fortunately in syria. Solutions no military to his departure. Its going to have to be a political agreement and the only going to reach a political agreement is if the russians agree its time for him to go. So what does that do as far changing the calculus against iran . A and i think that this was a wake our new president that the situation that he talked about in syria before we should not be involved, he now realizes based more aggressive u. S. Stance to take raqqa which is caliphate capital in syria means that hell never be to accomplish getting rid of isis without having a solution accelerated to in effect also get rid of assad. Go hand in hand. Host weve had several callers questioning even if ahad these sad even attacks launched. What do you think about this argument . Assad has shown hes arean in order to free the around damascus or in idlib rebels. E of hes used poison gas before. Verified. So with you rely on likenational organizations the International Chemical weapons organization that verifies the use of these and so thats where this judgment is coming from. Host as far as the future then, ambassador, you talked about the political situation. Rex tillerson expected to go to russia next week on other matters. m sure this will come up as well. What would you advise ughs of for this steps administration . Guest Rex Tillersons trip to respect to syria is going to be essential on three points. Irst of all, the russians have been orchestrating a socalled peace conference on syria which excluded john kerry from because of obviously all sorts f challenges that the russians had with the obama administration. The question is in the end youve got four major countries to have to settle syria because it will not be assad. Its the United States, its russia, and its iran. He gulf states that are supporting the rebels are also a player in this including saudi arabia. Final analysis, i think everybody is going to conclusion that assad may stay on for a that syria period, will never in effect be a cohesive country again and the how do we in effect unwind the humanitarian atastrophe and create a provisional government that will be able to take power in moderate hile more sunnis are able to carve out territory that they can rule from damascus. Ginsberg, thank you for your time. Start with tony from texas on our support line. Ahead, tony. Caller i dont know what its about. Its ant time that the world understands that america is in charge and were going to call whatsts because we know best going on. He ball might be in putins court now and hed be wise just o sit back and go crawl back under a rock because we make all the calls now because were the ones that know what to do and we power to do it. Out advise anybody to get of our way because were the make things happen. I dont know what is so hard to understand. On top as the ut one always in charge. Can stop us. If they just understand that and line, i think the world would be a much quieter and better place. Dont you think . You think this falls in within America First policy, another country last night . Caller i think it falls in line peace on earth because its the only way were going to get earth is to have everybody on a cohesive course or the same purposes and until we get that, were just going to have to kill whoever gets in our the way it s just is. Caller jobs. Then to make a strike on this particular country, we had to our particular ships. Our military. Were stretching further and further. I didnt vote for trump but i chance thatve him a promises ng to his that he was going to make America Great again. Attrition g wars of in this country. Up next. Hy kentucky. On our line for those supporting action. Caller yes. I do support this effort. If this was happening if in a if we were living yria, we would want someone to come in and do something and i let the audience know hbo at 12 50 a. M. On uesday, there is a documentary called syria cries. Educational and i get that out there because i kind of was one of those who didnt exactly know are they doing this to the people and the host did you vote for the president , cathy . No, i didnt. No. Host but you still support the action . I do. I get where hes coming from. Matter. Dren help. R for tremendous m opposing the strike but im telling you this something something Something Like that. Thing. S the we have no idea whats going do the next 40 years. Everything is wrong. Resign. Resign. And then whats going to happen . Missiles fired into matters. Other hat confidence level has just grow. Nued to and the confirmation of the type of agent that was used which was a nerve agent. That was the initial president. N with the responding to his questions attack e nature of the and scope and who was responsible in particular. Host hr mcmaster from yesterday. Well hear next from mike in california who supported the action. Go ahead. Caller yes. Cspan and good morning america. Tomahawks are made. Were proud of them. They did a good job. Use more. Y to weve got plenty. I absolutely support our stoppedt but i think he short. He should have taken out the other five syrian air bases as well. Now they can reorganize. Move them around. And who knows where they are now. Its going to be tougher. Im sure we can find them. President trump is finishing our last coward president started. Eems like barack obama more interested in golf than National Security. Host do you think the actions warranted a response from the u. S. As far as it being a threat or at least a the United States itself . Caller absolutely its common sense. Thousand troops there sarin gasows how much this man has or what theyre importing. Have to protect our troops and were basically finishing what somebody else should have done. In the mess ere were in now, because of our last president. Ball and running with his tail between his legs. Them. Everybody in the in washington. And they ed the ball have allowed these babies to be slaughtered. Hope theyre proud of themselves. Host lets go to maryland to talk to steven who is not sure events of yesterday. Caller hi. How you doing . Good morning, america. I wanted to let everybody know, wouldnt be smart for assad right now to attack his own is currently ssia dealing with an attack. Were aware of what happened russia. E metro in so it wouldnt be smart for him right now to bomb his own people because theres nobody to defend him so obviously we all know assad is not behind his own and if we take the word thats why im undecided because i cannot support bombing a country that to do with our freedom or anything like that when its in the middle east and were going to have boots sent the way there and its more taxpayers. The the Washington Post takes a yesterdays events. Words and actions mr. Trump i cant. T at syria how he nteresting is respondeded to the attack in the wednesday with the king of jordan adding it crossed me when you s for kill babies with a chemical gas that is to lethal. Were shocked to hear what gas was used. His raises the question of how mr. Trump intends to make good on his word. Is not an easy knot to untie. Thursday night the United States missiles since the ago. L war began six years representative pete king of new commenting on yesterdays events from twitter saying i supportall americans to President Trumps missile attack against syria. Is essential to u. S. Security and thats the comments from representative pete king. Legislators commenting on twitter and making statements. Of ll probably hear more that today. Senator marco rubio saying its a busy morning discussing the syria. In the days of committing war crimes with impugnty are over he says syriastrikes. This eet from marco rubio morning. Lets go to frank, brooklyn, new york. Good morning, frank. Caller yes. Good morning. Good morning. Actually support donald trump. I think that i did not vote for him. Be honest with you. I did not vote for him. That becomes body the leader of our country, we must support them regardless. Support them. Now, theres people that come this country that were come other countries that here, whatever they may be, immigrants, they become americans. You cannot forget where you came from. You have to understand that people need help all over the world. To. If we have the means help and do what we can, we have to actually help out. Doesnt just stop in our own country. We cannot turn a blind eye to the s going on around world. So i support President Donald Trump because hes our president. Number one. All these kids dying, the only thing is that if its it there. Stop it cannot just stop in syria. It has to be all over the world. And choose. St pick you can pick which ones and be smart about it but you cannot the say im going to help sere yoon children and forget about other countries say if there were chemical syria, do you in think that obligates the u. S. To like d in every instance the one we saw yesterday . Yes. This is just a warning. Not an attack. Its not a war. Its not saying lets fight. Saying listen stop what youre doing. Theres got to be another way to doing. Youre just throwing in little attacks here at little army bases, warning. Ust a little thats just saying we see what youre doing. You need to stop. They want to react which i dont think that syria assad react. I dont think hell do that. But i believe that hell slow down. Take heed to that. These guys can strike how and just goingant so im to slow down. I believe that we should. You i know you said that think that other areas of the world have to deserve our attention as well. Do you think that fits in then idea of president s America First . Its t fits in not you know what, no, its not. Of the matter is that everybody is looking at the president and everyone is at the world. You just cannot turn a blind eye. A heartless e person to turn your back on it and ignore. And ver happens outside eventually, itd will affect america because you have to understand that there are people countries that are merican citizens now and theyre looking at our country like you know what just because over here doesnt mean that i have to turn my back on where i was from. So you have to understand we cannot stop the fact that the help. Needs we cannot look and turn our back on the world. Say this is america. Host lets hear from someone who opposes the action. Austin, texas. Caller i was a huge supporter of trump. Voted for him. Im very disappointed. One thing i want to ask people, just totally forgotten what the woman from new jersey said. Exactly right. Back in 2013 when our media was going crazy trying to get us all lets take out assad, that was proven to not be assad chemical weapons. The u. N. Even sent an inspector in there and said the people who people youve se been funding who by the way also bunch of e heads of a christians in syria. Then. Was not assad its not assad now. Makes no sense whatsoever for him to have done this. The facts. Et we just went in there and did this. Research. Do your the only reason our government we wantthere is because to build a pipeline the eu backs he pipeline, saudi it, and assad wont let them build the pipeline. Supporting al e quaeda and isis over there arming them to overthrow asad host what information do you conclusion . To that caller reading and im an oil brat. Industry. M the oil i know what is being ive been told what theyre trying to do. And if you actually read articles, they dont tell us nightly news but theyll talk about it in the articles. Lets hear from another texan. Not sure line. James, hello. Ahead. Caller good morning, pedro. Thank you for taking my call. Curious, didnt you have a yesterdayn the ground say that this was delivered by missiles . Do the show yesterday. As far as on the ground reporting doesnt take place on syria. Und in has to be done outside. But that said, go ahead. Said that l, she witnesses on the ground said airdelivered r missiles and they dont pack small l weapons on missiles. I would like america to meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Way were going to make America Great again is to do it of the beltway. You or tony in texas, better because both putin and have mentioned the use of weapons and were getting closer and closer. Jay jay off of twitter saying the president did ot get elected to become another aggressor in Foreign Policy in the middle east but those in the middle east take care of their own. To post on twitter, cspanwj. So all of it isrogram ocused on your calls, the yesterday. Om caller the price of gas is a ng to be 3 or 4 bucks in couple of months. Im sure theyll blame that on obama too. Joke. A its like reagan bombing haiti or the other dinky places they got all his supporters to the trump n supporters try to figure out in heads now how they can support him after everything he about not intervening a couple more tweets. Ssads disregard for International Law and lives demand measured response. Congress must debate an aumf syria strategy. Ron up next. Potomac, illinois on our support line. Caller yes. Good morning. I was hoping to address some of diplomatic consequences of this. Years, last couple of iran has been boasting about how damascus, l beirut, baghdad. He allies coming to washington lately, weve got a lot of riends amongst the sunni countries that would like to growth. Ns and theyre just sitting happy today. Am saudi arabia, israel, jordan, we juste all happy that did this. About tion, i dont know turkey right now. They are a nato ally but between turkey and israel, our allies have the biggest, strongest, powerful military in the area. Wes could be something where ive iran and russia a bloody nose and take out a big part of hezbollah which is an iranianbacked terrorist group nd we could make our sunni llies in israel very, very happy. Jim is next. Hes in florida. Not sure about yesterday. Ahead. Caller yeah. I think you have to really look at the Bigger Picture here, everybody. Talking geography. F you look whos in the middle of iraq and whos on the other side of afghanistan, im a years, veteran of 25 since iran. Everybody has wanted to take iran out over the years. You have israel is the constant in the middle east that we keep our time and money into this country. Trillion ent over 6 already. Every time it comes up, its israel. Kushner is there, netanyahu the other day said ive known him for a long time. Trump because of a Strong Military but everything religion over there and i dont think we should be entangled over there. I would rather see peace s for our money. Its not going to work. St the wall street journal thats the picture from the deck u. S. S. Ros the president s ecisive action against the bashar assad regime. Let king of iowa obama russians into syria and his support of Muslim Brotherhood the d the door and invited russians back into egypt. Strikes in tary syria are reckless and short sighted. And especially some of them have led to a conversation about authorization for this action whether it will lead into another discussion about authorizing use of force part ically for syria as of the discussion thats probably expected to play out as their s gets back from break and takes on other issues as well. Oppose line. Ginia ahead. The d it coincidental that day after congress decides to se the Nuclear Option in nominating did Supreme Court justice, trump decides now is and ime to attack syria their chemical weapons. Ost and you think theres a connection . Caller i wholeheartedly think so. Distraction. Were all talking about syria and whats going to happen next and not focusing on whats here. Ning i mean, nothing has been more than why ing does he choose now to go and attack syria. Is oddly host came during the middle of what was going on in florida as trump meets with the president of china to discuss chineseu. S. Relations. The president went before cameras. Go to our website if you want to see what was said there. Orlando, florida. You are next up supporting the action. Go ahead. From this is jim orlando. Host youre next. Go ahead. Caller i want to say i support the president of the united and i disagree with the caller from virginia. On for six n going years. Half a Million People have been killed. As far as theres no gray area. You have to do something. You have to stand up. And also you have to you have to this is about when trump says this is about America First, it is. Anything, youre just being pushed around. And if president obama had done have supported him. And as far as im concerned, its not a democrat or republican issue. To take a stance. Its been going on for six years half a Million People and you have to do something. Do you do n something . Stand up you have to and by the way, president clinton said back in the 90s, he regretted not taking action, i cant think of the country right now, so i think president obama when he looks back on it, hell probably regret that he didnt action. So i support the president and where im at. Some of es a look at what was taking place on capitol hill before the announcement yesterday. This is the reporting this morning saying as news broke of and ction both democrats support. Ans offered no, quote, use had intention to have more than this single strike but added that the quote, is reserving their options depending on responds e regime against our troops or takes any ction against u. S. Targets or our allies. The top democrat on the committee was informed of the while they were underway. Corker praised the action as, proportional step. Said they will both senators called for the consult with to congress on longer term strategy. The second highest ranking democrat from illinois said it was a measured response attack. Hemical hes a top democrat of the ppropriations subcommittee and Chuck Schummer of new york said making sure th and consult with congress before implementing it. Next to rodney from california. Morning. Good how you doing . Host fine, thanks. Go ahead. Youre on. Sir. Er yes, first of all i think it was definitely a symbolic strike. Proportional indeed. They know that there was definitely no russians there a ause they do not want conflict with russians. We all know russians use syria and they have our area over there. Number one. I think this strike was behind Donald Trumps poll down to 35 . You know, we all know hes in love with numbers even last week when he gave a speech, he is supposed to be talking about what he was orget talking about but hes talking votes. Electoral hes 75 days into office and about Electoral College win. Its about his approval numbers. When guilt orause innocence to your question about go to your question is this in line with trumps America First policy, no. Dying a day eople because they dont have healthcare and that comes to people a year dying because they dont have good health care. To go along illing with the republican healthcare stripped 24 Million People from healthcare. I also havent heard donald about kids e thing being poisoned, for instance, just for an for example, kids poisoned in flint, michigan. I havent heard him say that governor has to go. Do America First and lets not remember mission creek. It, youre going to own it. We all know that. Powell taught us that. Host okay. Some comments weve een asking to hear from you regarding the strike that took place yesterday, no guests for show. Emainder of this were just going to hear your calls and tweets. Variety ofch us in a ways. Unemployment is now at 4. 5 as supports department that 98,000 jobs added in march thishat the momentum is the Washington Post talking about it saying that the labor m in the u. S. Market flagged in march. Adding wing friday only 98,000 jobs. Economists surveyed had expected added this to be month. Still the ube employment rate 4. 5 from 4. 7 the previous month while hourly 26. 14 raised to following a 7 cent increase. The economic front. On whats going on in the vote , again, today that expected to nominate the final vote expected to nominate neil orsuch, the judge from colorado, to the Supreme Court. This after rule changes occurred yesterday. Debate is scheduled to start at 9 30 on cspan 2. Hours debate two plus the vote around 11 30 this morning. Cspan. Org and our cspan radio to follow that plays out today. Caller good morning. I would just like to suggest hat people take a long term Historical Perspective toward our engagement in the middle east. Iraq spent if you include and afghanistan almost which is n unsustainable and our total debt is almost 20 trillion but the i would ask regarding this most recent action and why unsure is President Trump needs to supply Proof Positive was the Syrian Regime behind the strikes because looking back at American History spanishamerican war, iraq, and vietnam were all started and we lse pretenses need to be sure that were not that road. G down and then the next question would be does President Trump and his term Strategic Plan to resolve the situation. Resolution cannot be had unless we sit around the conference table with some that we dont like because even though assad is a actor, he has the Community Behind him and the reason for that is they know they would be to lose if they were by the sunnis. That is a motivating factor. Going to give t up. We need to in the long term come peaceful pe of resolution and we need to enlist and id of the russians ther actors and persistently work toward a solution because 10, 15, 20 years of endless war in the middle east is just a huge refugee flood into europe. Successful. N thousands and thousands of people have been killed. The very st say in short term perspective, most mericans dont realize that hundred civilians were killed by an allied bombing in mosul just past few weeks and so heres plenty of civilian fatalities. People in mosul are just as dead in this alleged syrian attack. Were starting to see video from an area close to the targeted by was the u. S. Well show you a little you can is video as survey whats been the result of these bomb strikes yesterday. Again, this is video that looks like its on a cellphone or that line but thats video from the area close to these attacks on that airfield. That, well go to our next call, valerie in minnesota. Those on our line for supporting the action. Valerie, go ahead. Caller hi. New hampshire host im sorry. Caller thats okay. No problem. War, there storical will always be war around the world. Like trump but i think this is the first thing that hes done that i can actually and be oud to be proud to be american again. Watched two children with hand did not want to be taken by isis in syria. This is appalling. To go. As i would have wiped out all of there if irts around president. From pennsylvania, david. For calling. Youre on our oppose line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I just want to say what happened to america comes first . Mean, syria is not a state of the United States. What are we doing over there . We should not be over there. You talk about babies getting killed. Over nt you do something there in saudi arabia . What theyre doing to yemen over there. In over there. Lus, we have Chemical Warfare in america. Flint, michigan. Fix it. Do something. Get out of the east. Specifically the president mentioned concerns about the use of chemical weapons overall. A concern for us you dont think . He was in office he said going to get out of there. Get out of there. Promises hes not keeping up. Host a supporter in west scott up next. Caller good morning. I would like to start off just that i served in the military. I served during wartime and the of the United States need to understand that the United States, china, and russia are the superpowers in this world. That need to s keep these small countries in the and being a member of United Nations, theres a set of rules that you have to go by and gas is one of them that you just do not do. People choose to live or run their country outside of there are , onsequences for those leaders host do you think were then required to respond to other ttacks as they occur in that country . Caller yes, i do. Yes, i do. Ost and do you think that complicates matters as far as our actions in syria and also players such as russia and iran and what do you hink of the long term consequences of that are . Needs the United States to step up and be a world leader and if taking out countries that mean, these i countries oppose darn near in the world. 100 againsties are the United States and if thats being over and of us being even reacting in the way we do with military tomahawk missile attacks, so be it. It has to be done. Be kept in have to check. World revolvesle around the peacekeeping and to done has an obligation that. Host scott, did you support the president if i may ask . Oh, yes, i did. Host so weve been asking people throughout the morning some people have commented on their own. If the actions from yesterday may hatever actions that happen falls into what america that the osophy president has. Caller i believe so. You know, a this is our country because this founded on war. Was built on on war. You know. War has been going on throughout history. Its a bad thing. To le what we have remember is that blood of our we iers is shed to be who are today. Host the Washington Post of the area of syria and it kind of highlights controlled by the assad regime. Theres the location of the air base that was attacked by the way. Also highlights in blue here where these armed that were groups talked about over the course of groups as well being highlighted. Thats in the Washington Post this morning. Heir headline u. S. Strikes Syrian Military airfield. Then they also asked the question of whats next. Your thoughts on what might happen next when it comes to the any of from yesterday or the other things any other things related to the actions of yesterday. Jimmy is up next. Texas on our oppose line. Hi, jimmy. Go ahead. Caller yes, i want to say first hat my wife and i did vote for trump but im sorely disappointed in his actions. In syria. Need to be weve been in afghanistan, what, 15 years now, and we have not a single thing. Weve been in iraq twice now. All we did was give rise to isil nd al quaeda and make matters over there ten times worse. Of ing by getting rid all were doing is killing wasting trillions of dollars. Do not support trump in this at all. Host do you think now as far as this matter is concerned what happens if other attacks or related matters with russia and iraq . Thats their business. They need to take care of their own countries. Lets go to matthew. Vancouver, washington. About the actions of yesterday. Caller yeah. m not sure about it but what concerns me is that theres so much coverage, so many pictures to happen cation has for that to occur from both sides. And russia is just totally quiet. Its kind of like its a show. Syrian gas is for show. You know. T wants to be seen to cause a reaction. What reaction either side is trying to create or whoever is is what create it concerns me. Its very unpredictable. Specially with all the biologicering between epublicans and democrats and russia and false media. Whats goingy know on and that concerns me. No communication. Host we have richard from california. Our line for those who supported the action. Caller yes. What i was going to say is i did do vote for trump but i support this particular action for the main reason that i think sending a message. I dont think its going to go further. I think i remember ive been following trump for a long time. And him ary clinton agreed that something needs to be done in syria. No fly zone. He just thought syria was over. And lieved that assad won he kept putting that out and he just has nothing to say about being there and then it seems like he might be having hese deals with russia saying, and i believe s. Sad did use chemical weapon they did do that, it really sent a trump and he message. Base. Oing to strike this are going to do this stuff im going to just knock out. Stuff i do think that it supports a policy which is dont betray me, trump, as the or ill show ica you. So i think he got punched and is a counterpunch and i dont think it will progress. I think russia has to talk to us about the Missile Defense systems and iran is going to showing s but trump is them, look, dont betray me. This go but o let you want to hurt babies and is not going to sit back and let it happen. Them. Oing to strike i think any american should have done that particular action no matter who you are thats richard in california. Part of two hours of calls that weve been taking from you strikes thatse air yesterday. In syria guests on the phone. Hearing from were you thin this final hour whethe them, oppose them, or youre not sure. Call us and tell us why. Host perspective on these strikes. Good morning. Good morning host could you tell us for hose not familiar with your group what it is . Sure is the so were an independent media organization. We run an online magazine that the syrian crisis. We launched it in december, 2012 providing en continuous and i understand feint coverage of syrias war since the start. You can find it at syriadeeply. Org. Weve had reporters inside of yria writing for us in english and arabic from the beginning. E have an office inform beirut in a network of reporters absolutely, a lot of buzz and analysis around the strike is fact it doesnt seem to have penetrated the airays of the air base, the base is one of the important for Syrian Government. From the pentagon statement and what we gather from the gowned, debilitated the runways or Russian Military ircraft or other aircraft that could use that facility to launch future attacks. Around a lot of buzz the fact this doesnt seem to do longterm, significant damage to governments capabilities. It seems to be more like ignalling effect the Trump Administration is willing to take military action, at all, obamaicant given over the years, we didnt see anything remotely close to this muffle the u. S. Policy response to syria. In terms of the impact on refugees, what this will likely do, make it harder to come home, term, t in the short there have been beginnings of discussion around how you can millions of Syrian Refugees who lost the country again. Home discussion around safe zone, nofly zones, called various of the ver the course policy debate, buffer zones, you know, essentially spaces where millions of refugees could start coming back into the country, relieve some on europe and neighboring states around syria, that doesnt seem to be likely time now. The other main point were syrians and the region is that this is really a drop in the bucket in terms of weve seen in attacks against civilians in syria, even chemical weapons strikes, weve seen documentation of the chemical weapons believed to be attacks launched by the the n government against people using chemical weapons. Last november, december, last september, back this string of attacks documented and this is just one of them and really just a part has done to war people, there is a bigger missed. That might be host as far as chemical weapons, we had calls assad ning even if the regime would have chemical they do so ifould they were winning against rebels . What would your reporting that . St about guest i cant read assads mind, but from what weve seen detailed documentation from Human Rights Watch and other for s, this is sort of par the course, the Syrian Government seems to have used ased on that documentation chemical weapons attacks to often strategically soften targets for themselves to make it easier to reclaim rebel areas. Are significant rebel stronghold necessary syria n. Novemberdecember attacks, Human Rights Watch documented the use used toine gas had been o ke their battle to retake spikes the area and use weapons to enhance their military them an uppergive hand to retake more and more of the country. The worth stating, government does not have control of large chunks of syrian lot held by isis, some held by rebel groups. Theyre still very much in the fight to take back their own territory. The government itself and spokes people, they deny any weapons and say this is a ploy to make them look bad. Far as next step, weve seen reaction from the russian government on the attacks, reaction from iran, what does it mean as those two with bashar es alassad . Russia and iran have been Bashar Alassads very best friends, very best partners. Have not only spoken up to defend the regime, but put their the ground in syria to help him stay in power, and retake him essentially more and more ground in the ountry there is no indication that support will wane, there certainly is a sense that over the obama of administration, the fear of iraniation from russia and and fear of spoiling hope of better relationship with russia was tying americas hands from doing anything further or anything more pointed inside the territory. Now President Trump has just ompletely reset the game and how iran and russia react, whether beyond the words and condemnation, whether they do anything about this remains to be seen. First few hours, following the attack, does not seem like they are doing just condemning the u. S. Strikes. Now that the president responded in the way he has, what is the expectation from syria and around it as far as what the u. S. Should do in this situation . Lot of ell, you see a people didnt support president the before, who are happy strikes took place and feel like, wow, this is something we can get behind, that sets the u. S. To be for the more active on the syrian file has been really interesting to hear a lot of folks who didnt support feeling likemp now hey, actually we like that he id this, maybe we can get behind this guy, that has been an interesting turnaround, ive heard. Very, very complex conflict, there are more than on the ground, there is isis, which has been priority in e u. S. The syrian conflict. Now will the parties like iran even the Assad Government somehow forgive this resume sort of their Movement Toward alliance defeat isis . To well see. Will they punish the u. S. By out ng sxout Holding Support . Weve heard russia will suspend some cooperation with the u. S. Isis, but then you also speak to regional analysts know, the fact that isis exists is just a side syrian conflicts and Bashar Alassad is the root conflict, so syrian partner withing him didnt do as much good anyway. There are a whole range of opinions on this, on whether the right strategy is to make with assad, overlook some of the crimes and violations of the past six years and just focus on isis or the isis is g to eliminate to seep through the some of the crimes and violations of the prosecution and potential removal of Bashar Alassad. No clear way forward for the u. S. , there is more of n expectation trump will play an active role. Host Lara Setrakian of syria publisher for that publication, cufind it online, hat is the waeb site to find out more about the publication . Guest sure, www. Syriadeeply. Org. Host thank you for your time. Pleasure. Host lets go to tom in redmond, washington, not sure the actions of yesterday, tom, go ahead. Caller hi, there. I can speak to whether the action will make america or buta safer in the long run, i do think that its a sign of a disturbing trend. The United States has one of the nonmilitary International Affairs budgets of and the oped Country Administration wants to cut the udget by over 30 , so it looks like the administration is favoring the military option ver the nonmilitary option, despite the fact that you have an open letter to congress in u. S. Ry signed by 120 extolling ersonnel, u. S. Aide and other diplomacy organizations saying they are as important, if not more important than the u. S. Military in conflicts. Hese i feel we need stronger voices, especially on the republican pushing back ss, on cuts like that. Else, all well end up with is a hammer and pretty soon will look gn policy like a nail. Sending out tweet saying Congress Must do its duty and come back in a session to military force to syria. She sent a letter to house the letter l ryan, reads as such, as heartbreaking as assad chemical weapon attack people, was the crisis in syria will not be resolved by air strikes, it will not stop without a solution to end the violence. Owed erican people are strategy with clear objective to in brave men and women uniform safe and avoid Collateral Damage to innocent citizen necessary syria. Look forward to hearing from you in this matter of grave concern. Tucker, georgia, who supported the action. Go ahead. Caller thank you for the call. Callers did a good job pointing out the details of to problem, but going back had to move aircraft carriers to the area to be able of strike. Kind trump already has them in place. The problem was obama actually constitution and asked congress, lets do something about this and hands. Ss sat on their they are great in front of a microphone, but didnt want to work of vetting hundreds of groups in the area, hey didnt want to get a coalition of countries together, which obama was very good at, to to get people , to the table, to do the hard to get to t takes peace, to get people together on a common path. This is all about money and warm and russia wants the water ports. All darts near check, proof of that, he wants to get instead of partment path to peace, he wants to have build bombs ons, and lets use a few bombs since money on them. We should have been doing this doing e barrel bombs, this over famine, around the that congress is picking and choosing, which op to drop a bomb on, just are not t people informed and are electing people on power and money and not thoughtful content. Iranian foreign minister on twitter this morning commenting on action from saying that not even two decades after 9 11, u. S. Ilitary fighting on the same side as al qaida and isaac ayes, plan to stop hype and cover up. Nigel from the United Kingdom being many trump voters will worried about the military intervention, where will it end, lapen, in french, but commenting her thoughts on well, from as yesterday. That is some of the International Reaction that has taken place. Others, germany, france and other countries weighing in, calls on, as your well, this last 45 minutes of our program. 2027488000 for those who support the action from yesterday. If you oppose it. And 2027488002, if you are not sure. It was President Trump who went before cameras yesterday, talk bout his decision to use military force in syria, here is some of the statement to let you fuzzy as far bit as quality of the audio, here it is. On tuesday, mp syrian dictator, bashar launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on civilians using a assad chokedagent, out the lives of helpless men, and children. Brutal death and for so many. Beautiful babies were in this very ed barbaric attack. God should ever tonight i horror ordered a targeted military the air field in syria attack re the chemical was launched. Vital, National Security of the united and deter thevent pread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that used banned chemical eapons, violated its obligations under the chemical ignored onvention, and the urging of the u. N. Security council. Years of previous attempts at behavior have s ll failed and failed very dramatically. S a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States allies. Tonight i call to nations to to end this ing slaughter and bloodshed in syria. Of also, to end terrorism all kinds and all types. Gods wisdom as we ace the challenge of our very troubled world, we pray for the of the wounded and for the passed and we who hope that as long as america andds for justice and peace prevail. Will in the end good night and God Bless America the entire world. Thank you. Host the president from making the announcement. Other members of the administration went before to reporters and update what was going on. Again, well keep hearing from 45 minutes. Final the former ambassador to the United Nations also giving this morning, john bolton, the bush administration, saying the president of the is sending s Important Message to assad. Tolerate use of chemical weapons. One reporting from the french talks gency this morning about the french president as well as german chancellor, president assad, the bear sole ident says responsibility for the development. Rimes against his own people call for sanctions which france and germany demanded in summer of 2013. Berlin and paris jointly call on the International Community to oin forces for political transition in syria in accordance with the resolution geneva d the communication, referring to the Statement Issued on june 30 of by the u. N. Backed action group for syria. From new up next jersey, on our line for those who oppose the action. Go ahead. Caller yes. Good morning, pedro, i definitely oppose it. It being unconstitutional, also, we have back in 1945, the United States agreed to take britains lace in the world and we see the result, the old great game they had before. Propaganda, we have pretext and go in and they use israel as cats paw to go in and now carve up the middle east between them. Think the only two wars that americans should be involved in is the war of independence, britain, and war against congress, who has betrayed us. Is not a goal and not a america, should be a minute have to e shouldnt choose between safe borders and independence. We colonized, were bankrupt and they n judicial watch, said in monterey and juevo, jihadist waiting to come into the country, why not bring our troops home sit on our hill and protect our own here. Thank you, pedro. Host virginia, next from william, who is not sure about the act from yesterday. Hi. Caller good morning, pedro. Im not so sure whether this attack is mr. Trump is using to diffuse his own problem about investigation, his with russia, and secondly, just kind of slow down about discussion going on his credibility on the president in general. Thank you for taking my call. Jim couple tweets for you, buck says, who distinguishes this attack is the u. S. Of gas, are advanced weapons, different from chlorine barrel and mark stone saying for liberals and dems, hillary would have done the same thing, bomb air fields. N fact, Hillary Clinton was interviewed in an event yesterday, was asked about the Chemical Attacks from earlier, would have done or advised the Trump Administration on doing, now these comments before the actual event took place, Hillary Clinton from yesterday. Illary clinton assad had an air force and that air force is the ause of most of civilian deaths. As we have seen over the years we saw again in the last really believe that we should have and still his air fields and prevent him from being able to bomb innocent faron gas on p them. Tjnnew uncer next up, jersey, on our opposed line. Hi. Caller how you doing . I agree , the with trumps statement, we need gods wisdom in this, the are ications of this biblical, you see, we got into conflict right out of t the what happened in libya when Hillary Clinton was state and the arms t right that gaddafi had was transfered syria to fuel this regime change operation, that faild and ow we have generals telling trump he needs to escalate the situation in syria, which is have a significant blowback effect on the united region and this onflict goes to show that because of the opposition russia there is no , collusion by democrats who are the trump and russian administrations. With this is, where is the evidence . Assad hear is that launched Chemical Attacks, we heard the same thing in 2013, administration wanted to attack syria using missiles, what we dont hear, where the sxefdz from proofingomes assads government launched a chemical attack. Youou actually do research, find that throughout the entire hronology of isis taking root in iraq and syria, they have chemical weapons. So there is no proof and trump waiting blindly in a sea infested with sharks and i see no end to it. Have negative ramifications for the globe and the United States as a whole. Host one critic of yesterdays including china, this reported from fox news saying condemned the chemical weapons attack in syria, support under dent investigation the United Nations. Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman oppose use of chemical weapon by any party nder any circumstance and did not assign blame for the attack that killed 80 people or mention leader Bashar Alassad. In opposing condemnation of the regime, not trektly involved in the conflict. Government. M chinese this as the chinese president meets with President Trump in discussions on other matters, obviously this may come up, as well. And that oes on meeting continues today in florida. Agency press also reporting just off a tweet saying the Security Council of nations expected to meet on u. S. Strike necessary syria. Alabama on the support line. Hi, go ahead. Caller hi. Well, im trying to figure out how is it the American People are so uninformed . Bits of taking information from social media instead of listening or looking elsewhere. Ation weve got military bases across he world, not just in the United States. Would the american citizens be if the attack was on our troops versus the syrian public . Know, everybody is opposed to everything that trump does. If he gets out of bed, they oppose it. Hes our president , we have to support him 100 , no matter what. Host do you think this act specifically as it took place in first it intoes america framework . Caller absolutely. Them to use chemical war fare, which is already gainst any agreement that any countries have that this is wrong, should not be done fwe allow this to be done and nobody does anything, what is to say they will not strike our country or military next or our military in their land or our military borders . Ht off their host go ahead. Caller even killing their own, do the same thing to us f. Chemical war strike had florida, would the American People be more pissed off and say, trump, do something. Hes a no nonsense kind of person. We need that kind of president. We need somebody who will not sit back and twidel their humbs, no, this is wrong, you cannot do this. Host okay, rhonda in alabama. Turkey president saying that the syria, not in enough, further steps and more needed. Re French Agency press reporting that, abc news following he made in turkey, which borders syria, speaking at a u. S. Saying that the turkey supports the people. Strikes we evaluate this against the assad regime using chemical weapons, but i dont see them as repeated said and turkey call terrorfree zone to declare safe , zone on the turkish border, 4000 kilometers, let us build homes and settle syrian next on the d sue line for those not sure about yesterday. Good morning. Host hi. Caller i havent heard anyone it is a possibility since they dont know who did the Chemical Attacks it was done to the United States into the action in syria because this war for a long time between a lot of people and a lot of people involved. Through congress, now does trump go off every time decision without running it through congress, which is not the way we do you. Gs, thank host several members of Congress Appearing before cameras to talk about these events. Including a republican from talking about events of middle east, chair of the subcommittee on the middle east. Here she is. It is internationally known who uses chemical weapons will receive a swift response. Finally did what we should have always done, act ecisively and make sure that every, every nation, every dictator, everyone in the world of chemical e use weapons is absolutely will receive a firm and just response from the United States. Host lets go next to joe in sarasota, florida, online for those who oppose the strike. Hello. Caller yeah, im very concerned hat people are just jumping to onclusions, again, that assad use chemical weapons. Several times we have jumped to conclusions, we went to iraq of masshere was weapons destruction, weve accuse assad erroneously, let me remind people that in world war ii, we had our weapons of mass weapons, on, chemical used on the people of italy, and our own troops. Had stored in ships, chemical weapons, and nazi plane flew bombed the ships and that gas was released and killed well nds of americans, as as peep frel italy. Was us rnment denied it that used it, but then it was found out it was our gas that people that was released by bombs hitting our ships. Now, it amazes me people are so willing to jump into this to accusations without proof. One more little comment host actually, let me go to doyle in l, chattanooga, tennessee, not sure. Hello. Calle damage. Host you broke up a little bit, that . You repeat r didnt do any damage, cruise s shooting missiles in to the country a that much damage tis just political stuff. Doyle, in is tennessee, Associated Press reporting according to u. S. Or 59 missiles struck the intended target on he strike at syrian air base, followed up saying u. S. Official ays the initial assessment suggest one missile malfunctions, the missiles hit and shelters aft and destroyed the fuel area, according to the official, more coming from the side of the strike and the official is not authorized to discuss the initial reports and on condition of anonymity. Ay, lives in pittsburgh, on opposed line. Caller hello. On. hello, you are caller first of all, this whole problem is a United Nations their job to is take care of stuff like that. We are not the policemen of the world. Well end up getting our men and omen killed in an area we shouldnt be in the first place. I feel sorry about the little children killed, but i believe things could have happened, such a thing as talking with people. Thing, i believe this of the to get the all attention off this problem we have with russia and i feel like very, very close to finding out what this man is all about. During never served vietnam, he said he had a problem, but all of a sudden, biggest patriot one. Hes a very good man, i dont care what they say it t his whole base, to me, is a oh, i call it an act of toward syria. And if we dont watch it, were going to get into another send our troops over there and i believe assad and putin, isiend, who is working right with him. That is what i feel. Have never should been done and this is only going to hurt the United States. Ally . Is our where is israel, giving them this money. Host calling from pittsburgh, phone, gregory of u. S. A. Today covers the white publication. E good morning. Is there new information coming administration about last night. I believe we lost him, try again in a few minutes. Colorado, on ng, the line for not sure, hello. Go ahead. Caller yes. You know, i could be saying this out of turn, it may get me hones im going to be honest go ahead. Brockville, id, maryland, on the line supporting the effort from yesterday. Hello. This is david. Host youre on. Caller im on . Okay. The message was russia, andot korea, syria and anybody that is going o try to play these games with the chemical warheads or weapons. Will respond. Tes anybody that to think russia and trump are friends or buddy this, is a message to them it is because he just took out one of their bases that ports. Okay. Syria, agreement with obama in 2013 and used promise womens, they they have no chemical weapons in the country, we just prove them anybody think that hillaryd it on his own, a week ago said she would have done the same thing. Do isid the only thing to ust bomb the places so they cannot use it. Anybody doubting the syrian did dont have any airplanes, it was done by an can fly the only that over there is russians and Syrian Military. Thank you. Judy from florida, also supporting last nights action. Hello. Caller yes, good morning. Think all to say, i americans need to get online having so muchit hatred of ourselves and need to pray for these countries over and dont talk about israel, that is gods people, said he pposed god will heal our land if we would defend israel and People Better getting off their rearend and appreciating what god has the landus, we live in of the free, we are so blessed. Rob isob is in missouri, on the line for those who are not sure. Good morning, rob. Morning, pedro, how you doing this morning . Host fine, thank you. Great. the united 6, 1917, states entered the war in world war i. War, all these chemical gases were banned. Agree with mr. Trump on many things, but this one, i 100 on. Th him when you murder children. When you murder old people. Peopleu murder innocent with gas, something has to be done. On this. Ith him even though i didnt vote for him. Thank you. Bits of ple of other news to share with you aside from the offense yesterday. One deals with the chairman of the house intelligence temporarily nes, stepping aside in his role in the investigation into russia, aying that the announcement from the committees chairman came before House Committee said he was under investigation because of public report he may have made unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Nunes refuszal was a blow to mr. Trump, less than three months in disruption russia campaign, political damage on some closest advisors and supporters, fury over the context the president s aide ith russian officials led to the firing of michael flynn, mr. Rumps National Security advisor and Jeff Sessions from overseeing the f. B. I. Inquiry to effort and it led to recusal of mr. Nunes from the Committee Russia investigation mr. Trump faces potential revival of that inquiry. Hat is in the New York Times this morning, also a picture from yesterday, as i said, meeting with ent donald trump at maralago in florida, that is a picture of two gentlemen, their wife necessary that picture, as well, getty d to us from images, jim watson shooting for he publication o. Top of the picture, as far as that is concerned in the wall street marco rubio, d by senator from florida, about china meeting and specifically, headline. The trump should let china off the hook for human rights and make as far as china human rights history and how sha should be brought up in with the chinese president. Lets try this one more time on gregory of u. S. A. Today, good morning. Caller good morning. Host have we heard anything new the president or administration about last night . Guest not from the president. Getting hat weve been is reaction from the world community, russia and syria, predictably condemned the u. S. Action and were starting get some callos capitol hill for renewed debate over the over ents war powers, whether he needs a new authorization to use military debate we had for the entire obama to nistration, but got put the back burner, well see if getsnewest action in syria us anywhere on the debate over what we should be doing there. Has there been more from the administration about what justify the actions from esterday and president using power he did . Uest what we understand from National Security officials is that they had a pretty high quickly after y the tuesday deadly gas attack by syria s directed and evidence began to come in turkey and from on the a und in syria, that it was deadly gas nerve agent that was civilian is population. That was all the justification needed. Nt trump as you know, President Trump had attitude toward the Syrian Civil War. Is aid, our biggest problem isis, syria is also fighting evil isis is the greater and he wasnt going to get involved in syria. That the Trump White House is trying to send, change snt necessarily that posture, we are not intervening in the syrian civil images the horrific that came from syria about this chemical weapons attack some type of force. Tional could more force be used if other incidents occur in syria . Well, now that he cross third degree red line, this was had with the obama administration, that if that used chemical weapon, was red line to necessitate u. S. Reaction, that reaction has the expectation would be that if syria, if there additional yria use chemical weapon, there would be response. There is open question about what would happen in other kinds of humanitarian disaster, we had elepo situation last year, there continues to be umanitarian crisis throughout syria and so that is something that the Trump White House is now that ave to weigh they have established that recedent and put assad on notice what the response is to rights abuses. Host mr. Korte could you paint the scene about the you are in , florida, about the president and meeting, what ent was occurring or what you observed during these announcement as this information coming out . Guest sure, as you know and about, lking exextraordinary day with the going ecusal, Senate Nuclear and the syrian situation developing all day, even as trump was flying down to maralago, his winter retreat, to meet his first the chinese period, summit ng and the itself, this chinese meeting was he flew h news, but as down there was additional our ons, when he in rstanding, he arrived florida with basically most of his National Security apparatus him, national th security advisor, general mattis convened a meeting of the National Security council, both here in florida by teleconference back to the white house. Vice president pence returned to white house, they convened, they made the decision to go and President Trump dineed with president xi as the attack was out. Ied he waited until the chinese delegation went back to maralago back to their hotel waited an hour, invited reporters back to maralago to had taken. Tion he host when it comes to today, not only talk about events of between the meetings, between the president and chinese president , also, will information or press briefings on what happened yesterday or what happens next . That remains to be seen. Well see, obviously this somewhat complexion even of the xi meetings. Even though it is a different part of the world from china, this could be seen having north koreanor the situation, china is member of he United Nations Security Council, it has important voice n getting an International Coalition to take action in situations like syria. I i would imagine important issue china sea, south north korea, pretty packed agenda for the meetings on their and well see how the white house tries to fit in some kind communication strategy on syria into that chinese context. Host reporting for u. S. A. Today, gregory korte, joining you for your thank time. Guest any time, pedro. Our 15 minutes left in program. We take calls concerning yesterdays events. Those s, on the line for who oppose the action. Go ahead. Called to say i oppose yesterday, i dont think it is right. Umber two, i think the people ought to get together and trump definitely was one i voted for whenever he was running for more or he definitely less in a roundabout way, he just doubletalked. Thing and did something else. Host why did you not support yesterday . Not support yesterday because what happened was, i dont think he ought to all the children that he did because they are furthermore, the way it is right now, you never know what is going to come up the United States right in the middle of another war. Host got you. Got you. Well leave it there. Again, by the way, on the senate side as all events playing out senate side that expected vote final vote to thenate judge neil gorsuch, Supreme Court, that debate starts or has just already started. Expect to continue throughout the morning. Final vote taking place today, that and the senators, republicans have convinced because of change in have to vote to finalize the vote and get him to the Supreme Court. Mark knoller reporting the white house wait until the president s back in dc next week to host swearingin ceremony for neil gorsuch, publicly that could monday. Ace on up next, gambino, from brooklyn, york, says hes not sure of yesterday. Caller hi, good morning. Thank you for cspan. Wanted to say, im not sure about the Chemical Attacks the on syria because i believe were in syria for the reasons. As you can see, we have already submarines are n coming to the baltics and they are capable of carrying Nuclear Weapons and what that is mplications of the strikes of yesterday. And we can also note opec raised 2 after the strikes. The oil andn it for we dont have to get distracted, will be nominated to the Supreme Court and this is america. D day for host next up, douglas, in minneapolis, minnesota. Good morning. Caller hi. Im opposed to this war, as i am all of these wars taking place. To solve going anything. It just creates more of the roups that we claim were trying to eradicate. He thing many people forget is the United States used chemical vietnam, what ry did people think agent orange are . Hemical reference that have affected not only people in vietnam to this day, but troupes themselves are uffering from the residuals of those chemical weapons. He other issue is people talking about israel or jews being gods chosen people. Gods chosen e people. Those people are not any more native american, africans, people from indian and so forth. Destabilized iran, i mean, iraq, we destabilized libya, we destabilized many places to no there is no end to these wars. Host okay. Douglas, thanks. 11 30 this morning, what abc is reporting when it comes to the nations, Security Council expected to meet on that, also canadian Prime Minister said canada fully supports the United States limitd and focused action in carrying out missile strike in syria. He said the statement on friday, assads regime use of chemical weapons against his own people saying e ignored gruesome attacks cannot be permitted to continue with this weeks says attack is a war crime, also nato thoughts on the action of the Syrian Regime. Nato, or from this from information from nato, saying bears full e responsibility for the u. S. Strikes. N arkansas, dennis, who supported the actions of yesterday. Hello. Doing . hi, how you host go ahead. [indiscernible] i attack at least. Hillary would have taken out assad. One of the things that we dont thely realize, this is just beginning and he did what he said, he is going to clean it up. So many different things, people are not really informed what is on. Ng really appreciate cspan, you guys really stay on top of it ithout going crazy like the rest of us out here listening to all this nonsense. Beginning, i w couldnt believe that it took do something about it, were not even started yet, finish it and includes des that iran, everybody going to have to take a step back and do their own thing. As far as civil rights, they got people, so many different areas, it is going to successful while of democracy in the world in order o make it anything happen for them. They are in a different situation. Host got you, dennis. On neil gorsuch takes place in the senate, leader mitch y mcconnell took to the microphone to comment about actions in syria. Mitch mcconnell. Mitch mcconnell action was aken to deter the assad regime from using chemical weapons again. Action and th the the objective. The planning of this operation well considered, it shayrat against the air field from which the aircraft used in the attacks had launched. Chemical weapons had been stored. Taken against assets important to the regime, air systems. In the days ahead, im committed o working with the administration to continue developing strategy to will isil, and dealing with assad regime in manner that institution of government in an effort to prevent a failed state. Goes out to the worlds most capable military, just hours pan of presented options, capabilities to the s ommanderinchief and executed a difficult mission. None of this occurs without years of training, investment our service n by members. This was an action of clear signalits a from america that bashar lassad can no longer use chemical weapons against his own peep welimpunity. Connecticut on the line from those not sure. Go ahead, mike. Morning, pedro, i kind of fall on both sides of the issue. Im in favor, yet im against it. If he really f it did do it. The chances of him really doing are slim to none. War droms of iraq all over did n. 2013, they say he not do it, as soon as president obama said the red line, all of magically chemical weapons. Now President Trump says let the decide, all of a sudden, chemical weapons. Play nostradamas, if henostradamas, did it, President Trumps response was perfect. He sent the message and it will done again. Be ing nostradamas, it will done again, they want to get fully involved in 130,000 my way of thinking if president assad did it, it is over. If he didnt do it, they will trump, President Trump into the war. And are hood winking him im very surprised hes falling for him. Cause i voted president reagan said, here we go again. Think he makes you might have not done it . To er he stands everything lose and nothing to gain. President trump said let the people of syria decide. Want to do that to bring the whole western world middle him and have the east, hes winning the war. Common sense tells you he did do it. Well see in the next week or right, if be a month, it happens again, there is no doubt he did not do it. Be saying, see, hes defying us, defying us, well go waving the flag and mr. Trump, resident trump is hoodwinked and will get us involved in another ooishgs rack that is unwinnable. Go to cocoa, florida, line for those who upport the president and his actions. Sherry, go ahead. Caller yes, what about when promised us mp while he was running for element of he surprise. Urprise, america, we have finally stepped up to the plate. I am proud of my president. Support him and those of you hat want to bring the bible, hallelujah, but remember this, prayible also tells you to for your leaders. Ost what do you think caller leave america. Host sherry, what do you think theesterday accomplished in long run . Caller i think its on, i think were on now. I think its on. Were going to show the world really are. E were not going to tolerate this. Gas on them s innocent children and that woman to say, oh, trump killed children, what about the uffering of those children burning in that gas . Ost that is sher necocoa, florida, Associated Press reporting another incident, people media, three killed as truck crashed into a store. Lm shots fired, from the Associated Press. President has no right launching missiles without ongressional approval and research. Maryland on our line for those who arent sure. John, go ahead. Caller yeah, the reason im not sure is because all the reports that ive heard was that they of fixed wing on aircraft, the syrian planes or aybe russian planes that actually dropped poison, used poison gas. People say, g theyre not sure and he may have done it and the guy playing if it happens again, i dont know what that means. Were talking about something already happened and whether the syrian dids it or ot, i understand they do have documentation, they have film of fixed wing aircraft like the use, that uses poison used it before this. Everybody talking about past everything, it is indication of what happens fassad used poison gas before, why wouldnt you again . He would use it he figured that trump would even ly be like obama and when obama said there were red lines drawn if that happened, he act and then he said, you know, i was forced into it, it my red line, here we got guy that does something to retaliate and people arent even sure who use the gas. That was foregone conclusion, only reason i said sure t sure, im pretty myself, because your call screener said, pick some ategory here, and the other thing about gorsuch, i continuing is disgraceful what did, they had to force this Nuclear Option, i dont care, who came up with term Nuclear Option, to me, common sense. Host okay, leave it there. Were on the track now. Robert in springtown, texas, not sure, also. Go ahead. Caller hey, i appreciate the time to talk. I am a retired 25year vet. I have sat there and been afghanistan, both iraqi wars and all that. Basically i ave, understand why he did it. The use of chemical weapons is nato. D by what were doing is the same thing that weve done in the past. He should have sent 150 cruise wiped all those places out at one time. Like, why did vito go back we were there, we could have took out, took out iraq a long time ago. Doing the same thing we always do. Host one more call on this hear from bob in line bee, florida, the from those who support yesterday. Hi. Caller hi. Say, i support President Trump 100 , i think he foet a message to friend and alike, his response was measured im happy that hes praying for wisdom. That is all i have. Bless america. Host bob in florida. The last call on the three hours call taking a look at the strike from yesterday. 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