all right, you are looking at live picture from an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council speak right now is the russian ambassador to the united nation. he s expected to deliver a scaiviing repute of the u.s. missile strike chemical weapon facility. when he s done, we do expect to hear from the u.s. ambassador of the united nations, nikki haley. she has strong words against the russian and the syrians the last several days. standby for that. i want to bring in brendan boyle of pennsylvania, thank you so much for being with us. let me start with the basic question. do you believe assad s use of
this strike aimed to deliver a clear message to the syrian regime of using chemical weapons against innocent civilians is inexcusable. we selected these targets carefully to minimize the risk to innocent civilians. initial indications are that we have accomplished our military objectives without material interference from syria. a couple of keywords there, to deter syria and send a message. this is not about regime change, nobody is thought it is going to get bashar al-assad out of power. it is a message to his russian masters, a message to moscow to cut this all out. no clear idea however if this is a new red line if there are additional chlorine attacks or chemical attacks. the conventional bombings continue killing syrians, what
congressman boyle, thank you for being with us, this issue affected us all over the world. thank you for your time. a live meeting, the russian ambassador speaking, they are proposing a measure to condemn the attack over night. that ll fail. the russians are making a clear statement there, nikki haley, will speak after this. in the meantime, haley hasadmin he s been quite strong against the syrians the last few days. i don t think remarks we ll hear from haley will be any different talking about the assad regem and time and the eny the russians. i think that s what we ll hear.
genuine desire to start a real process to end this civil war and to that supporting the u.n. envoy, there is a lot of talk of the so-called geneva process but it has for years have not gone anywhere. how do you end this? even if these strikes end and chemical weapons, we don t think they will. the syrians have plenty of ways to attack their sif ycivilians. ambassador nikki haley is speaking right now. this is our fifth council meeting in the past week to address the situation in syria. a week has gone by in which we have talked. we have talked about the victims in duma. we talked about the assad regime and its patrons and russia and iran. we spent a week talking about the unique horror of chemical weapons. if time for talk ended last
do you think russian leader vladimir putin is any way chasing this morning? um obviously i don t know and it is speculation, i don t think he s scared but i think he was much more concerned now than 48 hours ago or certainly last week. i happen to believe that moving forward if we are ever going to get back to a real piece process to end this nightmare of a civil war that lasted seven years, cost hundreds of thousands of lives and 12 million refugees. if we are ever going to get that place, it is going to be after the u.s. led a western coalition strikes such as we have seen. i do appreciate you bringing up victims here. millions of syrians have been displaced or killed since the tragedy began years ago.