specific narrow mission was to inflict pain against the assad regime because of the chemical weapons attack and to degrade seriously his ability to launch further attacks. whether or not that compels assad not to do it again, i think that s important. and president trump, second mattis said we don t want to do this again, but the ball is in assad s court and in russia s court. if it wasn t for russia, we would not be here today. russia was supposed to get this on a leash, get it under control. remove the chemical weapons with assad. they failed to do so. the obama administration, i m sorry to say, gets some of the blame for this, they fell for this even though they said that assad is not going to? do this and he didn t. neil: and a ranking member of the house armed services committee. the democratic congress joins us from shth with a. thanks washington. thanks for taking the time.