forces to be involved. and the channels worked through the air space. we did not coordinate with the russian or prenotify them. reporter: the strikes involved scientific research center in damascus, that s an rnd facility where they produce and test chemical weapons according to the pentagon. a chemical storage facility north. damascus and another chemical torage near hom . mattis said this is a one- time shot unless assad does not get the message. he felt he had enough evidence to determine that the syrian regime deployed chemical weapons. i am confident of it. and we have the intelligence levelful confidence that we
shannon: i want to show you video. night scope video. they have released what they show missiles coming in over the city by u.s., britain and france. returning fire attempting to takedown the missile. and surface to air missiles were send up. and there is posturing on how will they did going after the tomahawk. the pentagon will release more data after their full assessmentes. and hesbollah tv station, they are showing video of cheering crowds in the streets of damascus. and mike tobin connected the dots.
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if we don t fight, it means bloodshed then, of course, we get into it and there s more bloodshed. why? because we get into it by shooting and killing people. not just military people, necessarily, all kinds of people who has been to be living next to a mobile missile launcher or some other defensive weapon. why? because it s difficult. unless we re able to command the skies ourselves. and that means being able to carry through an effective campaign to knock out these anti-aircraft weapons before we go in. so let s make sure we aren t going to put our pilots in danger of getting shot down over damascus. we ve heard before what a cake walk it was to go to war, it isn t, it wasn t in iraq. step two, here s the second old trick, put out the word that we must go to war. but before you go for that one, remember how you felt last time when you realized that absolute must reason turned out to be something very different. we may be able to change the course of that civil war in syria, but we re
bloodshed. why? because we get into it by shooting and killing people. not just military people, necessarily, all kinds of people who has been to be living next to a mobile missile launcher or some other defensive weapon. why? because it s difficult. unless we re able to command the skies ourselves. and that means being able to carry through an effective campaign to knock out these anti-aircraft weapons before we go in. so let s make sure we aren t going to put our pilots in danger of getting shot down over damascus. we ve heard before what a cake walk it was to go to war, it isn t, it wasn t in iraq. step two, here s the second old trick, put out the word that we must go to war. but before you go for that one, remember how you felt last time when you realized that absolute must reason turned out to be something very different. we may be able to change the course of that civil war in syria, but we re not likely to be able to pick the kind of winner we d like. and i fear these words bec