women and children to continue as long as it s carried out with conventional weapons and not chemical weapons? well, i think that s just a very unfair question. in what respect are you asking that? chris: well, what i m saying is that we are saying that any use of chemical weapons we are going to respond to but we are not saying that about conventional weapons and assad has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his people, why are are we drawing a distinct to assad saying it s okay to do with conventional weapons but we will object if you do with chemical weapons? i don t think we ve ever said it s okay, period. there is no way that any american or the president would ever say it s okay to kill women and children. i think that we have a lot of issues in the world and i think we are trying to put out as many fires as we can, but we can t control what a country does to its people. we can condemn it, we can acknowledge it, we can try and
weapons which is very small victims of assad, the mission in some ways defined by the fact that we had video. nikki haley said there had been 50 chemical uses which we did not respond. one of the things that donald trump made clear that when there s video of kids suffering he responds to that, that s his red line, i m not sure that s a super coherent strategy going forward because first of all, let s assad continue to wipe out domestic enemies an doesn t change status quo on the ground. chris: she did not commit that if there were other chemical weapon attacks they would spend. i think that might be the case. chris: all right, here is what president trump said announcing the attack on friday night. the evil and the despicable
policy allow the mass murder of women and children to continue as long as it s carried out with conventional weapons and not chemical weapons? well, i think that s just a very unfair question. in what respect are you asking that? chris: well, what i m saying is that we are saying that any use of chemical weapons we are going to respond to but we are not saying that about conventional weapons and assad has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his people, why are are we drawing a distinct to assad saying it s okay to do with conventional weapons but we will object if you do with chemical weapons? i don t think we ve ever said it s okay, period. there is no way that any american or the president would ever say it s okay to kill women and children. i think that we have a lot of issues in the world and i think we are trying to put out as many fires as we can, but we can t control what a country does to its people. we can condemn it, we can
response? that is totally up to assad, what i can tell you is the president has made it very clear that when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, we have no tolerance for it. we are going to watch out for the best interest to have american people and so he made a point and hopefully assad gets it. if assad doesn t get it, it s going to hurt and i think what general mattis was saying was these strikes happened basically responding to their continued use of chemical weapons, but, of course, if assad continues to go forward, there will be more and it will hurt and i think that he has a lot to think about. chris: i want to pick up on that because there were certainly indications since the first strike in april of last year that assad had used chemical weapons an there had been no u.s. response, this particular case last weekend was especially egregious and horrific, but are you saying that going forward that any use of chemical weapons by assad will trigger immediate
with con conventional weapons be will step in if you use chemical weapons which is very small victims of assad, the mission in some ways defined by the fact that we had video. nikki haley said there had been 50 chemical uses which we did not respond. one of the things that donald trump made clear that when there s video of kids suffering he responds to that, that s his red line, i m not sure that s a super coherent strategy going forward because first of all, let s assad continue to wipe out domestic enemies an doesn t change status quo on the ground. chris: she did not commit that if there were other chemical weapon attacks they would spend. i think that might be the case. chris: all right, here is what president trump said announcing the attack on friday night.