home to know that he is not the first. he s the third to use the aumf for such a strike. leland: and congressmen on both sides on that issue. kevin, thanks. you bet. elizabeth: there s much more on the syrian air strikes tomorrow with an all new fox news sunday. chris wallace speaks with the ambassador to the u.n.s u.n. nikki haley. check your local listings for time and channel and tune into fox news for media buzz, diving into the media coverage of last night s strikes. leland: a live look at the united nations as we await the syrian ambassador, who will talk about that u.s.-led air strike after the break, as the world continues to react. and a closer look at bashar al-assad and his repeated use of chemical weapons against his own people. live to the border with syria and israel as they watched and waited last night. david lee miller, hi, david.
diplomacy and public affairs, a state department official joins us. heather, start big picture here. the president tweeted mission commissioned. from the u.s. s standpoint what was the mission and what was accomplished. the mission was two things, showing that the chemical weapons and killing of innocent civilians will not be tolerated. the united states has taken many efforts for many months now, for many years as a matter of fact, and president trump led the way on that. we tried at the united nations and european union and had conversations with allies and partners around the world to bring this horrendous plight to the attention of the world. russia stood in the way and assad has continued to kill innocent civilians and enough is enough. i think the president wanted to make that clear. in convention with our allies, the british and the french. leland: noteworthy, the russia
report, saudi arabia is supporting the air strikes. a government official described what he called the horrid crimes because of the chemical attacks against the syrian people. a similar sentiment expressed by the government of bahrain and also qatar voicing its support of the u.s. air strikes and what s notable here, elizabeth, is that qatar allowed the united states to use a military base there to launch some of the strikes. the syrian government has responded, accusing the government of qatar of being, quote, what they described as shameful because of their allowing the u.s. to use their air base. so, that s the latest from the region. this now as the sun sets across the middle east. elizabeth: all right, david lee miller with the latest. leland. leland: with that we bring in christian witten formerly of the
they re calling him out. nate silver not known for his conservative views, he says it shunning called a higher loyal loyalty , if should be called a higher royalty. others have criticized him, it s right to criticize him, especially when you look at the fact that he s lied about so much. and every day, it s as if we find out about a new lie. another one, the fact that he says hundreds of thousands of e-mails were sent from huma abedin s laptop, when there was a handful. the clinton exoneration, and this is one who lacks all credibility. leland: if he lacks ought all the credibility, where is the fight? why not laying out the facts.
good to see you, sir, this caught our eyes from the new york times , in moscow a sense of relief after a limited syria attack and it appears as though both russians and the united states at command level went to great lepts to ensure lengths to ensure that this did not escalate. i also think for the russians, the major point here is do these strikes endanger assad s regime. clearly, no, they do not, in that regard russians are quite relief and quite happy. leland: it s unusual to sit here and be talking about russians quite relieved and quite happy, is that admission by the united states that we are not really willing to take them on, not their home turf but kind of sort of their home turf? to a degree it is. the caveat of the mission accomplished.