Is. Even when they say it is not, it is always about money. Melissa all eyes still on syria and possible strikes led by the u. S. In the wake of the assads regime chemical weapons attack on its own people killing thousands. Neighboring lebanon is opening its doors to hundred of thousands of refugees fleeing syria. Fox newss greg palkot live on the ground in lebanon with the very latest. And, greg, what are you hearing from the people there . Hey, melissa, people here in the region are getting more and more nervous as the likelihood of a u. S. Military strike against syria looks more and more like a reality. Here in beirut were just about 60 miles away from damascus. That is the nerve center of bashar assad regime. We went up to the border of syria to test the mood. Take a look. Just up the road from where we are the Border Crossing between syria and lebanon. Were told last week when the u. S. First indicated it could hit syria with a military strike, this road was packed. Something lik
Is. Even when th say it is not, it is always about money. Melissa all eyes still on syria and possible strikes led by the u. S. In the wake of the assads regime chemical weapons attack on its own people killing thousands. Neighboring lebanon is opening its doors to hundred of thousands of refugees fleeing syria. Fox newss greg palkot live on the ground in lebanon with the very latest. And, greg, what are you hearing from the people there . Hey, melissa, people here in the region are getting more and more nervous as the likelihood of a u. S. Military strike against syria looks more and more like a reality. Here in beirut were just about 60 miles away from damascus. That is the nerve center of bashar assad regime. We went up to the border of syria to test the mood. Take a look. Just up the road from where we are the Border Crossing between syria and lebanon. Were told last week when the u. S. First indicated it could hit syria with a military strike, this road was packed. Something like
The investigation into russias involvement in the election. By the way, the senate just went nuclear, changing its rules to confirm judge neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. This morning well be joined live on the set with the chairman of the Armed Services committee, senator john mccain, also member of the Foreign Relations committee senator marco rubio. New york times columnist tom friedman joins. Bob woodward as well. Welcome to morning joe on this friday, april 7th. With us on capitol hill, we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius, washiton anchor for bbc world news america katty kay, and john heilemann. Good to have you all, this morning. We begin with the breaking news. The United States has launched Cruise Missile strikes against a Syrian Air Base. Yesterday evening 59 tomahawk missiles were launched from the u. S. S. Ross and u. S. S. Quarter in the Eastern Mediterranean sea targeting the shayrat airfield near the city of homs. It follows a c
Al shayrat. Which is where the chemical weapons were launched from. We see the pictures of the damage of the attack. Targeted aircraft and aircraft shelters and fuel and ammo stora storage. All of the things you need to use for the attack that has already taken place, but if you want to launch a future attack. What was not targeted with the strikes, not saran gas depot. It is believed saran gas was used in the an attack this week. The concern is you hit the depot and the chemicals were released. Reports of six syrian troops killed as well. At the same time these attacks happened, the u. S. Military releasing some of the photos and intelligence. The way it is established the base used to carry out the attacks and established they believe it was Syrian Air Force that carried out attacks, including the flight path. They tracked the planes from the base as they went on to target. They looked at craters and impacts and known munitions. I should say that the russians were given advance warni
Brown live at the pentagon, what do we know. Reporter the 59 tomahawk missiles were targeting this air base that the pentagon believes was linked to the chemical attack. They show them leaving and returning, its all designed to disable the base preventing it from conducting future operations and the pentagon says it was to prevent assad from carrying out any future attacks, and avoiding striking any russian personnel, they used existi existing de conflicticonflictin to avoid hitting russians. A missile that allows, prevents any threats to u. S. Pilots but punishing strikes against this air base. Thank you very much. Theres a lot to cover. A lot of ramifications and immediate impacts as we learn that information, we will. President trump called these strikes vital to national security. Thats going to be key to whether or not they were necessary to stop assad and whether or not they are legal. Does syria represent a true threat to the u. S. . Lawmakers seem split but there was no move to