should not be lost here. a very important message that chemical weapon hoss not be aloud. that s why i want to bring colonel jacobs back 23in. you start at the end and work backwards. what does it tell you about this particular strike, an airfield where we re targeting hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and ammunition supply bunkers, knowing that can be easily rebuilt down the line or other means can be used as well. well, it s a message to the assad regime. i don t think they they re probably not any time soon going to use chemical weapons again because we re going to do that again. and they don t want us to do that again. it s a message to assad. it s a message to the russians. it s a message to perhaps korea, north korea. but it s also a big message to the american people. how would that what is the effectiveness of that message? we ve heard in our last hour our guests saying all right, maybe it may give assad a reason for
light. the pentagon using military channels to let the russians know, this was not an attack on their troops and aircraft in syria. syrian television showing what it said was the u.s. assault in the distance. syrian officials claiming at least seven were killed. the pentagon says it struck all 59 of its targets. destroying at least 20 syrian aircraft, air defense systems, radar and ammunition supply bunkers. once those missiles fell, the president huddled with his national security team to assess the damage. the retaliation coming just 60 hours after the world saw the first horrific images of that chemical attack, images that pushed the president to act. tonight, i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched.