weapons on city of idlib. autopsies supervised by world health organization conducted on three victims showed sarin gas was most likely used. the target of last night s strike is the same location where prior to 2013 the assad regime stored its chemical weapons stockpile. tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. it is in this vital national security interest of the united states to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. there can be no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical
proportional response designed to deter syrian regime from using chemical weapons again. where he is meeting with chinese premier president trump says strikes were in vital national security interest of the united states. there can be no dispute that syria used chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention and ignored the urging of the u.n. security council. years of previous attempts at changing assad s behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically. as a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize threatening the united states and its allies. tonight i call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to
tonight is not symbolic. i think it has strategic value to it. the question is, what happens next? is there a comprehensive plan to follow this up? what i hope happens is conditions for alternative for assad to emerge. i don t think syria will be a stable, u.n. tear government in any time in the future but i think we can take steps to provide alternatives to assad s role. not every republican supported last night s strike, however in a series of tweets senator rand paul said the president needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the constitution. our prior interventions in the region have done nothing to make us safer and syria will be no different. on the democratic side, senate minority leader chuck schumer had praise for the strikes, saying in part, making sure assad knows when he commits such despicable atrocities, he ll pay a price is the right thing to do. but he called on trump to come up with a strategy on syria and consult congress.
follow this up? that s the most critical question. what i hope will happen is i don t think syria will be a stable government any time in the near future but we can take steps to provide alternatives to assad s role. senator marco rubio reacting to that. ahead, how this affects relations with russia, ahead of a key visit by secretary of state rex tillerson, expected in moscow next week. you can certainly bet this will be top of the agenda. about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis
i do think it has a strategic value to it. but the question now is what happens next. there a comprehensive plan that follows this up? that s perhaps the most critical question. what i hope is going to happen, which is the conditions for an alternative to assad to emerge. i don t think syria is going to be a stable unitary government any time in the very near future. but i do think we can begin to take steps to provide alternatives to assad s rule. . that was republican senator marco rubio asking what many lawmakers will be asking this morning, what s next. still with us colonel jack jacobs and nbc s cal perry. let me ask that question to both of you. cal perry, if you re a lawmaker on capitol hill, if you re a politician who wants to know where does the u.s. go from here? do we widen? do we escalate operations? what is the political end game? i think you want to know if there is a plan of any kind. we ve been talking about this all night. what happens now. is there some kind of dipl