you? when bill neely and i were there seven years ago this month, there are calls for democratic reform. when the united states pulled out of iraq we left a giant vac you ll in the middle east filled by the islamic state. we re there to check that. the problem, the united states president, president of the united states, said he wants out of syria. now we re about to strike. how do you get out of syria when you re about to hit it? that s the conundrum. and said it just a few days ago. right. bill, the risk of engaging russia. the risk of engaging russia in any sort of u.s.-led retaliatory attack against syria. reporter: there are all sorts of dangers ahead here, craig. both strategic and tactical. i mean, strategically what exactly is the u.s. aim here? is it in any way to change the war? because last year s air strike did almost nothing. the airfield was up and running
its aircraft into safer locations and not going out on bombing missions. now, one of the key questions is, are they moving those warplanes into russian military bases? because obviously, any strike, anywhere near a russian military base would just increase the risk and increase the calculus of his whole eminent military strike. troops are being on the move over the last couple of days. activists reporting large numbers of troops seen leaving bases, and leaving headquarters. apparently a research center outside damascus where, let s call it, non-conventional weapons are developed has also been evacuated. the center bombed by israel just a few weeks ago. clear signs everywhere that things are moving, that syria s air defenses may be getting into place. also, satellite imagery showing that the russian report of
there is nothing weaker on iran than handing them syria, by extension russia. really the confounding problem of this. we don t really have an in-state we have. either jihadist rises or victory on the other to adversaries. appreciate you. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg facing pressure on capitol hill for the second straight day. once the hearings do wrap up, what real change will we see, if any, on the social media platform? i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn s disease. then i realized something was missing. me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn s disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections,
in syria. senator tim kaine of virginia, short time ago, put out a statement, and others who have questioned the president s ability to launch strikes on syria once again without congressional approval. where do you fall on the spectrum of that argument? do you believe that the white house has unilateral authority to strike countries, to strike regimes in circumstances like this? unilateral but temporary. my colleague adam kinzinger has also been forceful on the fact we need an aumf here at some point in time, when is unclear. i would not like to see us engaged in sustained continued action in syria months on end without coming to congress and without a plan to move forward. the an intractable situation. obviously, the video we ve seen and what happened in syria over the past week is extremely disturbing. i believe it warrants a response.
within 24 hour, and it certainly didn t change anything in the war. is the aim simply to prevent the use of chemical weapons casually as imemanuemanuel macron sugges yesterday? after the air strikes, what then? so does the united states have a strategic aim? that s certainly one danger ahead, but even tactically, you know, there s the great danger of a clash between u.s. and russian assets. that russia, you know, the ambassador here said that russia would shoot missiles out of the skies, and would even target the launch sites. strongly suggesting that if cruise missiles were fired off u.s. warships, they could be in danger. so will russia engage? iran said today that it would back syria totally, and suggested that its military would be involved again. so if you ve got syria and iran