damascus. most likely the building wouldn t be as staffed as it would be at noon. but like i said, we re still waiting to hear exactly what it is that they struck and the kind of targets and also the assets that they used. we really don t know much from president trump. but i mean the one thing that i thought was also very interesting from his speech just now, from his statement was he specifically called out the fact that the regime has been using chemicals here. we have seen this regime target its people, target civilians for years. they use barrel bombs. they drop any coinkind of ordna. mortars. rockets, munitions on their people. but this was the line that president trump, he called here, he called it particularly gruesome when they attack their people with chemicals. and so you know, as i ve said, we ve seen yet another time that the u.s. military has responded. of course another thing that s very different from this attack, or from the response from last april of 2017 is this is
and you see 41% two modern examples. bush was at 48. republicans lost the house. clinton was at 26 in 94. 54 seats. and regan, he was at 42% in 1982. democratss made big gains and you could throw obama in 2010 on there. right in that zone where trump is in the past in midterms. it is translated to sizeable gains for the opposition party and the number for democrats here is 23. that s the gain we need. we re seeing signs of that kind of wave and paul ryan was in the special electionses we ve had for congress, for the senate, for the house. it started in april of 2017. a wichita area district. the republicanss won but that was a gain. trump had wonner the state by 21. they had the special eelection. a gain of 15 points for democrats. he had one exception here in georgia. 15 points for democratss. the alabama senate race. they senate.
special electionses we ve had for congress, for the senate, for the house. it started in april of 2017. a wichita area wonn but that was a gain. trump had wonner the state by 21. they had the special eelection. a gain of 15 points for democrats. he had one exception here in georgia. 15 points for democratss. the alabama senate race. they senate. what you see typically when there s a wave, you re seeing the low presidential approval rating. retirements, other republicans making the same decision paul
upset. if they don t have a plan and they just give him the stamp, a few weeks is too late without a real plan. is this going to be a one day strike like we saw in april of 2017 where you basically go in and you do basically cosmetic attack or is this going to be a days long prolonged strike and if that s the case, chris, then i think you ll see at least some conversation taking place in congress about whether or not to offer authority. thank you both very much for the analysis. all right. fresh off dinner with president trump last night, allen dershowitz famed harvard professor, did he give legal advice to the president? he is live next. that s it? yeah.
effectively an attack on twitter? stick with the president has not laid out a timetable still living a number of options on the table. we are still considering a number of those in a final decision hasn t been made. there have been a lot of questions about how does this tweet reconcile with the things trump said in the campaign about not revealing u.s. intentions. i think the answer is it doesn t. he said one thing and now he s doing a different thing. i think it s really important in this case if there is to be an attack, that the u.s. government explain what we know about this chemical attack in syria. bret: in other words, short talk about the intelligence. make the case. last time in april, i believe, april of 2017, the chemical weapons attack was on april 4. u.s. missiles go april 7. we waited longer than that but we waited longer. seems to be before we do something, it would be a good idea for the white house,