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likely effects in every way. joining us now from the pentagon is courtney kuby, nbc news national security and military reporter. courtney, thank you very much for being with us. what can you tell us about the president s decision, the timing and what do we know about the scale of this effort? we know very little, as you mentioned, rachel. a couple of things that he mentioned were these are precision strikes on president bashar al assad s chemical infrastructure. we don t know exactly what that means yet. but he also mentioned that the u.s. and the british and the french, who he said were part of this alliance, part of this strike package, that they were willing to or prepared to sustain this response. so what that means is it s possible this could be more than one night of targeting. we don t know exactly what the targets will be, though. we ve been hearing for the past several days that military planners have been talking about hitting the chemical infrastructure. so what that me

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further detail about the scale of what s underway tonight? i think precisely. one of the important issues will be did james mattis win the argument, arguing for a more limited approach, worried about a wider war or the john bolton win? we understand there was quite a debate over this. it also could have been communicated to the russians to try to avoid direct hits on russian bases and activity as we understood the syrian regime moving equipment and personnel into russian areas to use them as russian shields if you will. a big concern about winning a war in the pentagon. another concern is an asymmetric response from the russian and iranian cyber capability, offensive capability. it could be a cyber hit that the

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was we are coordinating very closely with those two nations, with those two allies. there s no expectation ever, angela merkel or germany would be involved in this, for example, and that s what we ultimately did see. but the cooperation with regional allies and specifically with may and macron was incredibly important, rachel. so listen, significant moment for donald trump tonight, particularly given that just a couple of weeks ago this was a president who was reluctant to even keep troops in syria at all based on our reporting. now as we learned just in the last 24 hours or so he had actually wanted a tougher response. his defense official had been concerned and said maybe pull back, we don t want to completely inflame things with iran and russia. but it was notable, rachel, in his remarks, and you know this, this is a president whose receiptric has not always been as tough as some of his critics have wanted to see on russia. tonight he issued a warning o vladimir putin and said, and

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with and injuring upwards of 500. the u.s. didn t want to do something that would just send another signal that bashar al assad could ignore. and there s also the possibility that if bashar al assad continues to attack his people and the u.s. continues to respond in the same way that sort of sets a line, he knows how far he can push and what the united states will do. so the u.s. was really painted into a corner here to have to respond in a bigger way. just the fact that this is an international response in and of itself is larger than we saw in april of last year. but secretary mattis, he is very cautious about not letting the u.s. military get drawn further into this conflict, which by all accounts is really a quagmire on the ground. courtney kube, nbc news national security and military reporter. courtney, i know this is going to be a long late night for you reporting this out. thank you for being with us tonight. i know we ll be talking to you later on when you get more details.

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