president roosevelt who said speak softly and carry a big stick, as you all have been noting all morning and so many others have noted from the pentagon as well that this kind of uptick in military activity and the public sizing of it is certainly the big stick of diplomacy, guys. pete: very much so. leland vittert live on the white house lawn. thank you so much, leland. brian brian everyone is taking a look at syria and wondering about north korea. not many people that i have talked to said look out for afghanistan. that s exactly what happened. if isis is the target and isis is located in afghanistan, we have control of that region. it makes sense. let s go for a massive impact. ainsley: karl higby was on the couch earlier. is he a navy seal. he said he was dropping bombs. he said these are so precise. we can throw a bomb through a window from the air. it s incredible. patty pete lazy guided g.p.s. we know where we are putting them. larger fall of this type of attack is america fin
cnn s clarissa ward on the turkish border with syria right now. clarissa, there are these meetings going on in moscow right now between the united states and russia about the syrians and about the people that you ve spent so much time with covering. there was some support for the actions taken by the u.s. last week, but as they re watching what s going on in moscow right now, what are the people caught in the middle of this? what do the syrians want? reporter: i think if you talk to anyone, john, who supports the syrian opposition, there is a feeling of frustration that the trump administration has not gone any further than that one night of strikes that we saw on that regime air base. it s very much inside rebel-held syria business as usual by which i mean that the regime has been dropping bombs. there are air strikes across the area and more a tacts today in the town of kahn sheikhoun, and that is the town where the chemical attack took place and
has made, russia, getting back on the same page will be the logical step. the prime minister of great britain spoke yesterday with donald trump saying the west regards the current moment as a window of opportunity in which the russian federation at long last withdraws its support for syrian president bashar al-assad. is the meeting with vladimir putin set? we don t know that will happen yet? nothing on the schedule for rex to listen to meet with vladimir putin but a foreign minister, you know how these go, the president can sometimes, quote, drop by the meeting and it would be remarkable, he met so many times and knows so well to visit the country without dropping bombs. live in washington, thanks.
dropping bombs on another country is war. we have to think about what are the ramifications. what may happen from this. will assad reform? will assad get worse? if assad is toppled, will be people who replace him be better or worse? two different views right there. joining me is silvia brelly. hearing two sides there. this was war, this was legal. nato backing trump. putting the political aside, legally, could he do this? u.s. law does allow the president some leeway to arespond to attacks on actions that are isolated or affect security. the question is this, was legal.
kinetic action is not war. i think that s difficult. i think most regular americans sitting at home watching the tv would understand dropping bombs on another nation to be war. i m not saying that what syria did wasn t atroe shus and that we wrrpb aghast at the pictures of babies and children suffering from nerve gas. we have to understand we will be sending our young men, we have some over there already. they are there in the middle of this. really don t they deserve that we obey the constitution and only take them into war according to our oath of office. melissa: can you see the benefit of setting the tone at the beginning of this administration after we have had eight years of what many say is weakness and ineffective foreign policy? i guess if you ask me if your son were serving in the military, should we set a tone by acting unconstitutionally