we knew iran was on the ground. we have had our own men killed on the ground there. i want to go back to why we were there. what you are doing is taking it all the way back to the obama administration. a red line that apparently he couldn't figure out whether or not he wanted to cross, and then didn't. what this president has done differently -- and that's where i want to start the clock -- why were there now, under president trump. chemical weapons were used by bashar al-assad, and this presents and tomahawk missiles across the bow. he wasn't joking about it. he took out some things in terms of military strategy for that government over there in syria. there seems to be a lean in. why the lean in there? that wasn't isis. that had to do humanitarian reasons. no? >> with president trump starkey and gives the assad regime for his use of chemical weapons, i agree that it was the right thing to do. when the presence of united states makes a ticklish and like a redlined and says there will be consequences to pay if you use chemical weapons on civilians and that doesn't