look at different ways to solve global problems. thank you for that. we spent a good chunk of time on the strikes themselves. i m joined by kevin, bloomberg s chief washington correspondent. i read a tweet moments ago from congressman amash expressing the way it happened. what is your sense of how big an issue this is going to be? there are certainly people on the right, on the left, that are not happy with the way it was executed. it s interesting to see amash tweet that out. it s similar to rand paul, also a republican, who had concerns about the president not getting congressional approval for this targeted missile strike. that said, david, overwhelmingly, the majority of republicans in congress do support this administration. they feel that there was a red line drawn, that line was broken
national s security apparatus base here in new york as they make these decisions? nikki heyly gets high marks. from the beginning mostly she has been acting like frankly a normal diplomat at the united nations. she doesn t go so far beyond what the trump white house will say. she doesn t pick up on the crazy of some of trump s tweets. she acts like a press normal u.s. ambassador at the united nations. she has been fierce against the russians, often at times more so than the white house. so she delivered the message at the u.n. security council i think most people would say appropriately, as you would expect. that s kevin barren of defense one. thank you for your time. russia responds, the kremlin s warns consequences calling the strike on syria an act of aggression. what that could mean for relations between the u.s. and russia. blach
both the u.s. and russia i think keen to avoid confrontation. but these air strikes do not amount to a strategy. for president trump, now that s what he has got to think about. does he keep the 2,000 american troops in the east of syria? and what does he do next exactly if dash ar al assad should use chemical weapons once again. bill neely in beruit. bill thank you very much. mission accomplished. that is that president trump delivered a after those u.s.-led strikes. how high is the risk of retaliation and escalation. with the kremlin warned there would be consequences saying the strikes were an act of aggression. can we see aggression behind russia s public condemnation or is this the extent of the war of words. joining me, kevin. let me get your reaction to the strikes esaw in the morning hours in syria. more than 105 tomahawk ifls in.
over damascus proved to be completely ineffective according to the pentagon this morning. and that really sends a message, knowing that everyone was watching this. not just assad and the syrians. about you the russians were watching, the iranians, the chinese, and the north koreans. if you think of all the other potential conflicts around the world, everyone got a big demonstration of how strong the united states is in breaking into air defenses. why use more than 100 tomahawk missiles, why have the uk fly these jets out of its base in cypress loaded with cruise missiles of their own? why go about it in this way kevin. if you are not a military expert what do you think is gratuitous? the u.s. doesn t do things in small amounts. you are not going to send one missile to hit one strike because the missiles may fail. the u.s. military loves redundancy. a year ago when the u.s. launched at one runway, about 60 cruise missiles went. 57 hit had. a you confuse of them didn t