him with three options and then today they had their final big meeting and president trump decided on a course of action, and the course of action is very different than the course of action that he would take during the campaign trail, which was at the u.s. should stay out of syria and should be less interventionist. what change? that chemical attack a few days ago, for president trump that appears to be the red line for him and that is what started this all, which is why the target of the strike, the target of these 60 tomahawk missiles was the source of that sarin gas attack, and airbase in syria. tonight the secretary of state and the national security advisor spoke to a group of reporters right near morrow lag lago, and what they told us is leading into these strikes, there were big concerns. sarin gas itself, there was apparently a stockpile of sarin gas at the space, they wanted to
there something else that i want to say here, this is not a bad moment for president trump to be able to distance himself from russia. maybe this bromance that s been going on with vladimir putin is over. i don t see a clear break between moscow and washington because they need each other, but trump has gotten very frustrated. with russian aggression and with russian conduct and his inability to control his client bashar al-assad. we were showing the russian reaction on the banner, saying it s a violation of international law. let me bring you back to the interview with nikki haley a couple of nights ago, calling assad a war criminal. you do one or two things with war criminal, get him arrested or put him in a criminal court.
president trump finding and launching at least 60 60 tomahk missiles in syria. targeting and airbase locate located, targeting the bases airstrips, hangers, control tower and ammunition areas. condemning the strike, saying it had caused significant damage to the u.s.-russia relationship. good morning, you are watching a special 4:00 edition of fox & friends first. president trump launching those missiles in response to the deadly chemical weapon attack that killed dozens of civilians. the first direct assault on damascus government since the war in 2011. on tuesday, syrian dictator bashar al-assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians.
it s an important reminder that policies can have consequences. thank you, jackie. judy miller, pulitzer prize-winning journalist spent many years reporting in the middle east. a judy, let me first start with the fact that presidents of jordan and egypt visited the president this week. they could finally start to stare down and face some of this unrest to potentially bring peace to the middle east? i think you are right. there has been a kind of de facto coalition and a de facto alliance between israel and several neighbors, the egyptians and the a israelis have been working very closely against
change. the world is wondering what he will say next, what is the next step in c-14 from the president, any idea when we might hear more from the administer agent? of course tomorrow, the whole reason we re here is for this summit with the chinese president xi jinping, they had dinner tonight, during dinner was when the strike took place, it wasn t until after dinner right before president trump came out and announce at the strikes had taken place that he notified the chinese president and then tomorrow they re supposed to be having a working lunch and a bilateral meeting, but as of now, this is pretty unusual for events like this, as of now we have no indication that president trump is going to hold any type of press conference or any kind of meet and greet with reporters while this is going on, but given the events of the last 24 hours, he was a pretty chance that somebody like his press secretary john spicer or some other administration official is going to come out and talk a