to syria, but to hezbollah and iran as well. meanwhile, not far from where i m standing about 40 miles is the capital of damascus, the syrian capital. and earlier there were massive demonstrations, people out on the streets, following the air strikes. there was a air of defiance many people carrying the syrian flag. they were dancing to nationalistic music. the syrian president tweeted out that good souls will not be humiliated and he also said the attacks will increase the syrian resolve to continue fighting and to escalate their attacks against what he calls terrorism in every inch of the country. also reaction from iran, the supreme leader of iran, making a statement saying u.s. allies will not get any achievement for the crimes in syria. the u.s. president, the u.k. prime minister and the president of france are criminals. ap according to a published
well, something has to be done with the civil war, displaced over 70 million people around the world and a big portion coming out of syria. what needed to be done is a clear-thought-through process. i m not saying it s a knee-jerk reaction because i m sure president trump operated on the intelligence that he has that i don t and he made the best decision that he thought at the time that i m not privy to but i would think that after the last strike back in april of last year that we would have a better strategy moving forward and this is going to happen again. what are we going to do to prevent this? this is where, i think, if assad, he should be tried on war crimes and held in front of a criminal court and dealt with accordingly and help the syrian people bring a stable government in there to heal the syrian conflict so that people can go can start going back to syria so that we can get a resolution to this instead of the united states going in there. i was glad to see there were
involvement here is that the united states is viewing this as a pushback against russia diplomatically. leland: right. tried six times over the last year to block un resolutions on this. leland: heather, now on our air earlier saying that we will continue to hold the russians account for bad actions, declined to say what exactly account meant and was the how and what account was. yeah. gillian turner, thank you so much. liz. coming up the world as you can see react to go a u.s.-led air strike to syria. what s next for u.s. boots on the ground? america does not seek an indefinite presence in syria under no circumstances. as other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home and great warriors
russia back in 2013 promised the world that it would help syria get rid of its chemical weapons. russia failed to do so. russia becomes a garanto r: russia has the ability to get syria to stop this, and when they re asked and pressed and ambassador haley at the united nations so effectively presses them on that, they just lie and they try to turn around the story. we re already tracking many russians trolls around the world trying to turn this story ups e updown. leland: u.s. government says they re keeping track much russian trolls. and they condemn this through dep diplomatic channel. the kremlin criticizing the u.s., great britain and france for the strike. u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, then hitting back. we ve talked about the victims in douma. we ve talked about the assad
back on time on schedule once out of those 20. those changes happen all of the time. our folks are used to them. we have a professional military, they re not a bunch of draftees, they get this and while they d be happy to come home if the president said come home, they understand why they are doing and want to do the right thing. liz: thank you for joining us, sir, appreciate it. leland: keep an eye on reaction to syria, meantime post spring storm making its way across midwest, tornadoes in arkansas, massive snow in other parts to have country, adam klotz, understand why there was beeping in that tape. yeah, exactly. big storms to scare folks, that s what s moving across the south. that s all tied into the same system that s dumping snow in northern portions of the country. that s what we will take a look at first.