the pacific and she s just on her way up there because that s where we thought it was most prudent to have her at this time. there s not a specific demand signal or specific reason why we re sending her up there. it s just unusual for us to know about a ship movement in advance. that s what got echb s attention. why was it put out in advance? was it just to signal to north korea that there would be a show of presence there? i believe it s because she was originally headed in one direction for an exercise and we canceled our role on that exercise and that s what became public. we had to explain why she wasn t in that exercise. yeah, here. thank you, secretary mattis, i wanted to ask about the status of the cdeconfliction line, wha has it meant for coalition pilots, are they in a more
netanyahu. i got exactly the same from president of afghanistan, trump is so much more helpful and he s thrilled to have trump leading because he feels afghanistan is a better future. if the new york times doesn t want to put together as part of their first 100 days of story how many world leaders are saying that they like working with donald trump and they trust him and i believe he s a serious man. it s a remarkable turnaround. sean: how would you respond respond, the russian conspiracy theorists that have had no evidence but advancing a phony narrative for eight months. the russians were notified because we have a deconfliction line. of course they weren t notified. people who were surprised the russians weren t notified were
forces were notified in advance of the strike using the established deconfliction line, something you know a lot about, can you explain a? there are military to military contacts the reason why you do that is not some conspiracy, i ve been in tough on all that is anybody else. their objective was not to kill anybody, their objective was to destroy a facility so they can fly planes to attacks. that is the airfield are flying the attacks from, they conduct the chlorine bombs attacks are not airfield that they to conduct the 36 bombs and from the airfield, the objective was not to kill russians commit was to destroy and airbase so that he could not use in the future. that is an appropriate thing to do, sean: will save the conspiracy theories for the mainstream media, because they live and die by them, eight
so-called deconfliction line, they didn t see any of the airaft moved before the missiles hit. it w 4:38 that president trump gave the hour. four hours later, those tomahawks were in the air. nikki haley is speaking right now. let s listen in for just a bit. that changed last night. as i warped warned on wednesda the international community fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times when states are compelled to take their own action. the indiscriminate use of we chemical weapons against innocent civilians is one of those times. the united states will not stand by when chemical weapons are used. sit in our security interest to prevent the spread and use of
let s bring in nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nichols. what can you report for us e specially given what the russians say they saw happen? reporter: all night what struck out was the deconfliction line, that the u.s. gave russia effectively a warning, used it multiple times. when they took strikes on that base, they new russian personnel were also at that base. that gives you an indication that donald trump has a remarkable amount of confidence in these tomahawk missiles and the precision from the united states military. we haven t gotten specific reaction from the russian side of it, namely that some of these tomahawk missiles were not successful. they have their eyes and ears up. this is the u.s. side of things, i. isr, they ll probably be taking a closer look this morning now that it s in the daylight. one other reality the pentagon is waking up to is that the u.s. troops that are in syria, and they re just shy of about a