con sunlgts after six years of known to manner used by assad. but you can go on killing your people with congreventional wea, indefinitely. the other question of course is what sort of weapons are, would trigger a u.s. response. sarin is one thing. chlorine attacks have occurred frequently without any sort of response. yeah, i mean, this is the outstanding question of the last week or so. it s been clear that from nikki haley that she says the u.s., u.k. and french have analyzed the substances. it appears from senior officials that much of their diagnosis of sarin stems from observing the videos from individuals and the symptoms they have. the muse cuellar spasms, the twitching of people exposed to
i think the broader strategy here is they have not gotten this right i m not as worried about what i saw today. i think the defense secretary said hey, this is a one off. that wasn t assad, it was to putin. we don t expect you to come back at our folks. then what haley did, she said listen, if you do it again, however, we will come back. that was them just kind of correcting the record in setting the stage on what their position is on the use of chemical weapons. i think that s limited. i hope they take advantage of that they showed they could do by trying to push a diplomatic solution and that shouldn t include i think as david said, to pulling out some early pulling out in the east of
a target inside heavily fortified damascus with russia an antiair weapons. not too far away from where assad lays his head at night. i think if they take advantage of this, apply a strategy, which i hope is coming, they could get a lot out of this. david, is it clear, knew what the mission is for the u.s. when it comes to syria beyond degrading or prevent iing them from using chemical weapons? not at all. i think, ander son, son the big sense b is relief. given the volatile, brash and often dangerous sounding president, so many people in the country have been b scareded he s going to get us into a big war and use weapons. general mattis, he showed caution. i think for a lot of people waking up, thank goodness he didn t do it any harder. he sent the message.
blaming president bush. brian: 2014. i think when you point out secretary of state kerry came out and expected us to react on the red line. three defense secretary couldn t believe how neutered we were during all these years. now we have a situation where instead of just going after assad, what do we do if the russians act on us as we bomb their ally assad? are we going to have a world war in the middle east now with the russians after avoiding it for 50 years during the cold war? ainsley: i don t think president trump at all is scared of assad. i think there could be another war answered could wipe them out. steve: we believe it was assad. russia is pushing it wasn t assad. it was the rebels. that s the problem. we will keep you posted on that. meanwhile 7:11 is the time in new york city. time nor headlines. heather: good morning to you. and everyone at home. we start with a manhunt that is intensifying at this hour for two dangerous inmates who broke out of jail. the pair escaping fr
there. obviously putin s piece tonight will get everybody going. what did you make of it? i think the story is over. putin now wears this and we won t attack. if they do use chemical weapons, putin will look terrible and we will attack and go to congress. i think this is over. what happens if he s really doing is buying time for his mate president assad and as the weeks and months drag on, it turns out that was the real game plan? he can buy time for assad to stay in power but he can t buy time for assad to use chemical weapons again, that won t happen. if it does, we ll do something about it. it will take months, years to deal the first half of the putin piece was right there are blocks of al qaeda who are on terrorist lists fighting with the rebels. that s a danger. the rest of the piece was russian propaganda.