And remembering don rickles form. The governor is the great politician of all time. My brother died. Ha, ha, ha. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. President trump has just made his first Public Comments on the attack that he ordered tonight againsas dictatorship in syria. U. S. Navy destroyers fired 59 tomahawk cruise missiles against a Syrian Air Base. Now, this was retaliation for tuesdays nerve gas attack that was launched apparently from that syrian base. An attack that killed more than 80 syrian civilians. David martin has been breaking the news on this story at the pentagon. David, what more can you tell us . Reporter well, scott, the target for this airstrike was the air field believed to have been the location from which the plane that dropped those chemical weapons took off. So this was a direct retaliation against the Syrian Air Force for having carried out that chemical attack. The air field itself was located about 50 miles directly south of the village that was hit
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