there s going to be a lot of questions in coming days. nancy pelosi the democratic leader in the house of rettives ished a statement. peter, let me read you part it. then she goes onto say if the president intends to escalate the u.s. military s involvement in syria, he must come to congress for an authorizization for the use of military force which is tailored to meet it the threat and prevent another openened ended war in the middle east. do you think there s an appetite in congress for that kind of legislation authorizing the u.s. military force in syria? well, as you well know, there hasn t been much of an appetite in congress for this, for these kind of authorizations, but this
were scrambled and went some place else before the air strike, if assad felt like they were at risk, he might have given the order to launch those aircraft. right. away from that airfield. what i m interested in seeing is the bomb damage assessment, as a result of these striking the airfield. now, we hear that there were some russian who were there. right. which, you would say they were complicit they are complicit. if they are there russia owns their relationship with assad. and if they re at the airfield, they can t say, well, we didn t know we didn t know what was going on, we didn t see him uploading the chemical weapons of course you saw them. whether that was their job or not. they re at the airfield, they re complicit. before this happened, they warned about, when the president was saying, considering what sort of action to take, they warned about, you know, what would happen, what the fallout would be. now, there is going to be a reaction from russia, we r
one step too far. yeah. and of course, the big question is, what happens after this? no one knows what s going to happen after this, as you said, russia, a strongly-worded statement, and we ll have to see what happens in iraq and iran, with everyone in the region. and what happens with president trump, if he feels that this has not worked a few months from now? all right i, want to go back to wolf blitzer, and you can maybe answer some of those questions. our cnn military analyst, colonel cedric layton is with us. tony blinken. rick francona and national security analyst, juliette kayem. rick, the national security adviser to the president, general mcmaster, h.r. mcmaster, he put out a statement, telling reporters, quote, there were measures put in place to avoid hitting what we believe is a storage of sarin gas there at
all of his stockpiles of chemical weapons. john kerry issued a statement, i remember it very well, we congratulate all parties in successfully ridding syria did not do it. assad has been dropping chlorine gas since that chemical deal was struck between obama and putin. now he dropped sarin, a nerve agent he s not meant to possess, killing 70 people, which is not going to strategically change the dynamics, it s not going to tact tickly change. and all the pages of the newspapers are saying, assad the butcher, nobody s talking about terrorism anymore. this is the height of stupidity and insanity. he did it before. actually two months ago, i remember, in february, there was a security coin council and russia vetoed, about the use of chemical weapons. guess what? two months after, they re using it. so, they are enabling this behavior. stick around, everybody.
our braking news president trump launches a military strike against syria. firing 59 tomahawk cruise missiles on a syrian air base. peter, we re just getting a statement in from a russian official. he d head of the defense committee and federation council. this is according to the russian state news agency. let me read it to you and get your reaction. u.s. strikes on the base may undermine the efforts against the fights in syria. russia will urge a security council meeting after an air strike. is an act of aggression against a u.n. member. your reaction, peter. well, clearly this may mark an irreversible split between the trump administration and vladimir putin, who after all, president trump had said a number of things about president