he wasn t a candidate then. he is now the president of the united states. there is a difference between being a real estate developer in new york and a private citizen and being the president. when you are the president, the weight is on your soldiers. shoulders, he acknowledged that you get the intelligence briefings about the true impact of this attack. it impacted him personal live to see babies. he talked about that last night. he talked about that the day before at that press conference. i don t care how voted for in this election. you watched those two statements it s clear that as a human being as a grandfather, as a father, donald trump was deeply impacted by what he saw in addition to acting on behalf of the national security of the united states. and he acted decisively, which is one the most important things a president has to be will to do. ainsley: he decided to send missiles into one of those arldz. you and some other guests have said there are six airfield in syria. do y
hours earlier that donald trump in reaction to the gas attacks, 48 hours earlier had said something s going to happen. last night at 8:45 we saw something. brian: absolutely. ainsley: something big. let s bring in andrew big a former intelligence officer and advisor to the united states and nato advisors in afghanistan. we also have gary bernsen and tony shaffer, former cia intel officer and retired u.s. army. thank you, gentlemen, all for joining us. good morning. ainsley: gary, i will start with you. the kremlin is saying this violates international law, syria using sarin gas which they said they had destroyed which is also a war crime. it is clear president trump acted to defend against a war crime and a massive violation of human rights. you look around the world, 180 nations there is only one country and one leader willing to step up and do this and he should be commended for his actions. pete: andrew last night the
but likely potentially fighter jets and other personnel a lot what we will hear in the aftermath is d. jets get away. this is standard protocol. he hey, let me tell you so you can get out of there. 24 is president trump and his team talking about the targets he wanted to hit. make sure it was hit the intended target and not the russians to escalate. ainsley: not to kill people but actually destroy their base so they can t do this again. steve: and poison gas. here is the thing, ainsley about russia. and you said would they have time to move the poison gas? no, because russia has been telling us we got rid of it. there isn t any there. what are you talking about? ainsley: syrian rebels are responsible for this not assad because he got rid of the chemical weapons. right. pete: that s right. ainsley: conor powell is on the border of israel and syria with the breaking details for us. good morning, conor. good morning. as you were just saying overnight the pentagon launching 5 tomahawk cr
u.s., syria and iraq as retaliation. i thought the iranian foreign minister s statement was very telling. for the first time in a long time iranians sound cautious. that s a good thing. steve: all right. andrew and tony, and gary, thank you very much. i have now have the other two tweets from the foreign ministry, he says u.s. aide saddam use s of cw against iran in the 1980s. thank you. steve: you are welcome, military force over bogus chemical weapons allegations first in 2000 and now in 2003 in syria. not only two decades after 9/11 u.s. military fighting on same side as al qaeda and isis in yemen and syria. time to stolen the hype and the coverups. mark steyn, best selling author, fox news contributor as well joins us right now. so that s interesting. the iranians are saying we are a partner of isis. right. this is the confusion of it i think that was what was great last night.
to respond whenever he delivers his first remarks on this remark? this could really jeopardize all of the goodwill that had seemingly been building up between president trump and president vladimir putin. one of the things that really led to the strike was, of course, all of the images that president trump had been seeing of the slaughtered babies and children, that apparently really got to him. the other thing was that president trump was growing increasingly frustrated that the russians wouldn t acknowledge that the syrian president was behind these chemical attacks. it s not, the other thing that was very noteworthy when secretary of state rex tillerson spoke here in palm beach, he came out very strong against palm back russia and went after what he promised to do back in , witches remove and destroy all the chemical weapons in syria. it s the secretary of state said that russia has been complicit or incompetent in its ability to deliver on that. as for the strike, we are talking ab