succsful. three tomahawk cruise missile strikes hit radar installations inside yemen. from areas controlled by the houthis and the areas where they were sending cruise missiles out to destroyers. if you re going to huh rosa united states destroyer, expect a response. now the question becomes, what s the diplomatic fallout and what are the next steps potentially in a very difficult part of the world. thanks, hans. we want to go back to politics now. donald trump blasting hillary clinton s campaign for allegedly slamming catholics. the accusation refers to a purported e-mail exchange that is part of the latest document dump by wikileaks. the e-mails were allegedly taken from the personal account of clinton s campaign chairman. nbc s kristen welker is live in las vegas. i want to start across the board with these e-mails, how bad they are. obviously, a lot of attention is being given to donald trump right now.
i know this because the oklahoma 45th was involved in the training over there. just all of a sudden take it away without leaving any of the chief, easy, no boots on the ground support you want the u.s. to send troops into iraq? no. he s doing that already. he s sending a bunch of marines into the green zone. that part is all right just protect the ones that are there and help them get out. you want cruise missiles and i assume drone strikes. a lot of these militants are in jeeps, tow trucks. they re just driving around. finding the right targets, you spend a million dollars sending in a tomahawk cruise missile, it could kill a bunch of civilians.
morgan. do you think you were just the turkey, do you think the turkish regime would use military equipment? they re a nato ally to bomb targets in syria? i doubt it, they lost the plane, the syrians shot the turkish plane and they didn t respond to that. so all our allies are anxious to have sustained serious military strikes against syria, just ones that they don t have to do. the united states the americans should do all of the work. they re happy to support us from way down. is that your assessment including saudi arabia and jordan and the united arab emirates and kuwait? they all have f-16s and air fighters. i think we re going to be using tomahawk cruise bhis ils, so we don t have to deal with syrian air defenses, which i gather are robust. how long would this whole operation really take to have an effect. you want assad gone?
so i think there s some very strong national security argument. richardson clearly supporting the president on this issue. a lot of military planners, i ve covered the military for a long time. they know there are all these strategies going into warfare. you don t know what s going to happen. there are going to be a lot of unintended consequences. it continues to this day in afghanistan. are you afraid that even a limited strike could drag the united states into prolonged conflict inside that syrian civil war? i think the risk of that is relatively low. i think it s very important that the united states takes a firm stand, underscores that stand. not only with a strike, or with the support of the united states congress behind the strike. saying, no use of chemical weapons. some weapons are too inhumane to be used. the united states set up this
ronald reagan invaded grenada in 1983. the same as george h.w. bush in panama in 1989. bush did the same thing in somalia in 92, bill clinton bombed iraq in 98. bill clinton led the nato bombing of the former yugoslavia in 99. no congressional authorization. obama launched tomahawk cruise missiles to get rid of gadhafi in 2011. no congressional authorization. why do you believe it s necessary now? well, let s be clear, the president is not does not believe he is required to seek congress s authorization. what he believes is that when congress authorizes his proposal for a limited targeted strike so that assad understands that our response to his violation of a 100-year-old international norm not to use chemical weapons against either your own people