we re ready to go. fox news has learned there are u.s. war ships in the red sea in striking range of syria, as well, the question is what good, if any, would a tomahawk missile strike do? exactly a year ago, it had no impact on assad s thinking. dana? dana: i want to press you on the question, secretary mattis is saying it was chemical weapons. is the issue trying to figure out who deployed them or do they know who did it? well, it is interesting, we have heard contradiction, on the one hand he said he s confident chemical weapons were used. he said they are still looking for evidence, that is why the opcw u.n. inspectors are going in. he also said, the more time that goes by, those chemicals dissipate. it is not clear what those inspectors will find once they have been there. remember, the russians have been on the ground in douma and probably cleaned up any evidence, there were eyewitness reports of canisters and
national security meeting was supposed to begin at the white house in 30 minutes. the prescheduled defense hearing on the hill just ended after four hours. mattis said repeatedly when pressed, no decision had been taken yet regarding military strikes against syria. he did go further than he did yesterday about whether a chemical weapon attack had occurred. i believe there was a chemical attack, we are looking for evidence. opcw, organization for chemical weapons convention, we re trying to get those inspectors in probably within the week, you know the challenges we face for russia, six times in the u.n. rejected and made certain that we could not get investigators in. dana: the opcw just announced they hope to have th inspectors on the ground working in syria saturday, this saturday, april