coordination that takes place. publicly. between the white house and the defense department. i think what you re hearing from the defense department that is with respect to this strike that s it. the second way to welcome at it, is perhaps the notion that if the assad uses chemical weapons again that we ll feel free to strike again. that goes without saying. the third way to look at it, maybe trump is actually talking about something strategic. and not rely just on the military power. that we are going to use diplomatic and economic instruments as well. our ability to influence what s going on in syria has since passed. assad has by and large won that civil war. and the use of chemical weapons doesn t make sense. the likelihood is he s not going
allies in the civil war has been iran. let s cress over now to news conference in teheran. good to have you with us. it s about 10:00 a.m. in the morning there. it maybe early. give us a sense of what the reaction is going to be to what developed in syria. and what s the rhetoric in the lead up to an inevitable strike? good morning. iran has reacted. very shortly after the strike the foreign ministry here issued a statement saying this was an illegal attack on syria. a sovereign nation. it should never have happened and this will have much broader consequences in the region after this attack. iran is syria s closest ally. close adviser to the supreme leader. was in syria a few days ago. as talk was mounting about an
terrorist elements like isis and al qaeda. this is a different type of strike. director, rod rosenstein acting ag. is being quoted it s the reporting of msnbc news he told intimates he is mentally prepared at least to be fired. something that s been long rumored. if that happens. tonight or next week. what stage do you think we will have reached? what will that mean for the country and this investigation? what level of warning would you recommend? i m very worried about the possibility that rod rosenstein maybe fired. i think that mr. trump can come up with some pretext for the firing. which would a prelude to trying to under mine the ongoing special counsel investigation. i think that if rod rosenstein
congressional approval. big mistake if he doesn t. precisely. he s doing exactly the opposite of that. let s turn to msnbc news global editor. good to have you with us. let s leave the u.s. for a moment and go to the syria perspective. a country ravaged by war. feeling the blunt of u.s. military strikes. more significant than last year. how is this maying out this morning in syria. it s a great victory for bashaar al-assad. demonstrations on the streets of damascus. well planned and put together by the gvt. you know this. the way they arab aauthoritarian governments spin things in their favor. it s not a hard thing to do. we played sort of a three day bad game of hide and seek. president said he was going strike. we know the locations probably
and how to impact syria. i think the way the strikes were carried out was i think consistent with what the united states is trying to do in the past. when dealing with a difficult situation. one is we didn t do itdo. we were very surgical in term of the strike. going after the facilities. storage as well as delivery mechanisms. way it was done is consistent with what the u.s. million tear tries to do. as far as whether or not other things came into play. i hope they didn t. i certainly don t know. there is good reason to deter bashaar al-assad from carrying out attacks. one can argue whether or not the strikes were appropriate. there are questions about the president s constitutional authority. i m sure he yoused his article two. this is different than the strikes that we have been taking inside of syria against