last night. you don t want to go to war with russia. have you people asking why don t you take out bashar al assad if he is evil dictator. you can t take off the head of syria, or else we then own syria. the united states has to take that over as we did with iraq and we saw how that ended 15 years of chaos. so is this the right balance? it seems like these airstrikes did send a message but ultimately where does this end? you are completely correct here. this isn t about us imposing, for example, as we try to after 9/11 imposing our political way of doing business on a country in south asia like afghanistan or on the people of iraq. this isn t about, you know, the future of the political makeup of syria. it s about making sure that everybody understands in the world that you cannot use these weapons. they are morally reprehensible. they are illegal. and we can t have them being used in the theater where
people. children gasping for air. it s so heart breaking to see. you think about the combination of chlorine and sarin chemical gas. talk to us about that combination and how it impacts hermine when we see these videos here. pete: you are a bomb tech. you know these things. have you dealt with order nangs. absolutely. to give you perspective. did you go to about 10 to 12 month school 12 hours a day with study hall to become a bomb tech. the hardest course in bomb school is biological and chemical. it s the scariest. hardest to treat. hardest to diagnose. it spreads in a way that s undetectable. it s the scariest thing on the battlefield. we are talking high explosive fragmentation or nuclear doesn t care you the way that chemical and biological weapons do. this is something we have to put an emphasis on. when we have a country like syria actually sign a ban on chemical weapons. we have to hold them accountable. yes there are atrocities, general sides all over the world. this is somet
the air targeting the assad regime at three specific sites. the whole attack lasting about an hour, we re told. pete: president trump vowing the response is not over yet. kevin corke is live at the white house with more on that promise. kevin, good morning. thank you, guys. good morning. even as the battle damage assessment report continues to be written, the white house and u.s. officials are actually engaged in conversation with their counterparts across the globe. of course, all this following that missile attack on the assad regime last night. and their chemical program. i want to stress this is not against the syrian people. have you heard the white house say this previously, and i think it bears repeating. this is about attacking the assad regime specifically. dozens of missiles striking what coalition forces are calling specific targets and it was, quote, limited. the barrage was carried out not just by the u.s. but also our allies from france and the u.k. it marks the latest
what james mattis has to say and how we should move forward. pete: we heard him huddling with john bolton and john kelly as well. shocking, the president has critics and find at any moment any reason to attack him. in this particular case folks on the left came out sounding the drum we shouldn t be doing. this listen. striking syria at this point would be illegal without congressional authorization. in no way should he conduct this because this certainly would be an illegal strike and it would be very dangerous and tragic if this happens. we must do all we can to prevent syria from using chemical weapons and prevent an unhinged president or a hinged president from taking us to war in the middle east without a plan. all right, griff, they are saying this is illegal. griff: just so our viewers who are trying to process this, we operate under the authorization of use for military force. it is the same one operating since 9/11.
weapons facilities and nothing more, guys. abby: thank you so much for us. griff: thanks, lucas. pete: if there are developments at that briefing at the pentagon we will bring them to you here live at the fox news channel. it a lot of confidence this decision which not everyone will agree on. should it be bigger or smaller or should we have done it, whether you have got james mattis and john bolton and john kelly the chief of staff with his experience advising the president you know have you serious people who say we shouldn t back down the way obama did giving recommendations to this president. a lot went into calculations. abby: it is serious when you are sending our own men and women into harm s way. they have served. they have been on the front lines, they know how important it is to get this right and protect our brave men and women. griff: i remember being in the invasion of iraq with general mattis who at that time was commanding the first marine and joe dunford, and these are v