Comes a warning not to allow the longrunning and horrible conflict to escalate. Meanwhile the defense secretary is making it clear that the us and its allies are prepared to follow up with similar military action in theory if needed. Clearly, the assad regime did not get the message last year. This time our allies made it harder. Together we send a clear message to assad and his murderous lieutenants that this is not they should not perpetrate another chemical attack for which they will be held accountable. We are now going to mike in jerusalem. What we can do is give you some of the First Independent satellite images of one of the damascus area. Targets. This is the target in the damascus area. The image is coming to us from a location identified by the general as the Syrian Center for Research Development production and testing of chemical and biological weapons. The before pictures are from 2013. The active pictures from today. They appear to show the three main buildings pretty muc
Last saturday in the town of douma. The latest report estimate the number of dead civilians 75 this morning including women and children. The president giving the assad regime a warning. Listen. The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons. Establishing this deterrent is a Vital National security interest of the United States. The combined american, british and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our National Power military, economic, an diplomatic. We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian Regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. The strikes carried out by u. S. Navy ships and b1 bombers and british tornado fighter jets. Joseph dunfort had more. We conducted strikes that will result in a longterm degradation of syrias ability to deploy chemical weapons. Important information was destroyed. They will lose years of research and development data
Owners . And will he lay out how seriously he really is about pushing new tax cuts as fears grow about an economic slowdown . This just as a new cnn poll shows for the first time in trumps presidency americans perception of the economy is on the decline. Lets get to it. Cnns Sarah Westwood is in louisville, kentucky, where President Trump is headed today. Sarah, first on greenland. Are you hearing anything more from the white house on the president s decision to postpone this meeting with the Prime Minister . Reporter well, kate, President Trumps stated reason for not heading to copenhagen is the fact that the danish Prime Minister had signaled that the government was not interested in talking about the sale of greenland to the United States. In fact, the danish Prime Minister had described that as an absurd idea. The announcement of trumps postponement to denmark has not been received well by danish politicians. The danish Prime Minister said she received the news that trump was no lo
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