you. eric? eric: there are strong and stinging words against the assad regime and russia today at the united nations security council meeting. that was held to condemn the missile strikes. but russia had a bid for its own resolution to condemn those attacks and that came up short. after only china and bolivia joined moscow voting in favor of that draft resolution. united states ambassador to the u.n. haley, she had a blunt and strong warning during the emergency meeting, saying the trump administration will not let up on the assad regime. last night we successfully hit the heart of syria s chemical weapons enterprise. and and because of these actions we are confident we have crippled syria s chemical weapons program. we are prepared to sustain this pressure, if the syrian regime is foolish enough to test our will. laura ingall live tonight at the united nations with the very latest. what was russia looking for at that meeting today?
harry s. truman and five other warships are steaming toward that theater. now, that was a regularly scheduled deployment the navy rotates forces in and out just as does the air force. we are rotating new forces in there. they are fresh. they are coming. they are fully trained up. and they re coming for the next six months. we will have them in theater. so we will always be ready to do it, and like ambassador haley said today, when our president draws a red line, he enforces a red line. arthel: i need one word answer, captain nash. okay. arthel: if it is that president putin responds to power has president trump displayed enough at this point? yes. i think right at this point yes he has done what he needed to do. and that is look, i told you once and you paid a price. i told you again, you paid a price. you do it again, man, are you going to pay a price.
airstrikes. i want to start off by saying i m so thankful and grateful for all the american service men and women and those of our allies that took this important measure of the evil perpetrated by the assad regime and its support of iran and russia. i want to thank the president for taking a decisive action and in showing leadership where it was much needed and taking the step, but at the same time, i believe that more should have and can be done. eric: like what? for example, i believe the president s initial instincts was to go after the entire chemical weapons capability of the assad regime and the possibility of grounding the air force. i think that was the right thing to do. i think the president should trust his instincts. ambassador bolton was also in that direction and ambassador haley and others that understand what s happening on the ground. unfortunately i believe the delay that was made based on general mattis s sort of risk averseness that was really not