Protection from the law. A good country, right . We will be watching him monday. Have a good weekend, everybody. Bill oreilly of next life. See you monday bill oreilly up next life. See you monday. Bill the Oreilly Factor is on tonight. We can confirm now that the u. S. Has lost tomahawk missiles at syria. The action by President Trump has caused worldwide reaction. Did the usa did the right thing by attacking the brutal dictator assad . We will have multiple tonight. It doesnt make sense for assad to make these decisions. Bill there is some on the friends you will not support American Military action the matter what. We will take a look at that situation. The nomination of neil m. Neil m. Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. Also ahead, the usa has a brandnew Supreme Court justice. Is that a good thing for you . Caution. You are about to enter into the no spin zone. That the factor begins now. Hi max, im bill oreilly. Thank you for watching the sniper the usa attack syria, that is around nine eastern time, 50 missiles were launched from American Warships in the Eastern Mediterranean sea. 59 missiles hit their targets. The goal is to destroy an air base from which syrian planes recently dropped sarin gas on civilians, killing 30 children. 30. And 20 women, according to the syrian observatory for human rights. According to reporting based on a variety of cities, this is the
fifth time, at least, the fifth time, syrian dictator assad has violated the Geneva Conventions and use poison gas to go civilians get back in 2012, President Obama threatened assad. The use of Chemical Weapons is and would be totally on acceptable. And if you make a tragic mistake of using these weapons, they will be consequences and you will be held accountable. Bill but assad is not held accountable. But instead, the Obama Administration did what it always did, talk, and announced a deal with the dictator. A fascinating footnote to that is susan rice was on point alongside john kerry. We were able to find a solution that actually removed the Chemical Weapons that were known in syria in the way that use of wars would never accomplish. With respect to syria, we struck a deal where he got 100
the new president on the ascending a message to the worl world, the United States will not tolerate war crimes from syria. The action is a reaction, so security has tightened here in the usa as we become a bigger target for evildoers. Summing up, america was justified in destroying the syrian air force. The Lone Superpower has a responsibility. Even most of the trump haters in congress agree that if we can stop children from being gassed to death, we should do so. And that is the memo. The top Story Reaction at this hour, joining us from Palm Beach Florida where hes covering President Trumps meeting with the chinese leader, john roberts. Understanding that president in china has departed from maralago. Whats going on there now . He left this afternoon, just having a typical friday night. Hes having the rest of the week and here. The president , bill, im told is
feeling pretty good about what happened last night. He thinks that the military did a terrific job while one Cruise Missile fell into the sea, 59 of the 59 remaining hit their marks and he is facing praising the military to his staff and his friends that they performed marvelously here. And hes happy to see you in the most part with the International Reaction is, he does know there are a couple of numbers in congress saying he shouldve come today, but he feels like hes an absolute firm ground here because as he pointed out last night this was a matter of Urgent National security for the United States because im told the president believes that if Bashar Alassad was able to do this and not suffer some consequent support this, that would normalize, at least in the area of the world, the use of Chemical Weapons and therefore might come back to bite the United States at one point if somebody decided, well, if Bashar Alassad can use weber Chemical Weapons, will use the weapons. Bill i. D. Rapid fired answers. The Chinese Foreign minister said they shouldnt have done it. Everyone should come down. Was there anything coming outside of the president talking with mr. Trump today on the Missile Attacks . Anything at all . Any utterance . Spent well, there wasnt any public utterance, but im told, bill, that the white house believes it was pretty impressive show of force that the president went out last night to his chinese counterpar counterpart. And that will be taken back to beijing and sort of turned into that whole pot with north korea where it might give them Something Else about leaving mara longo and President Trumps request to lean on north korea. If they do it in syria, but they do it in north korea . Bill did we get anything in north korea, any pr better cooperation in china . Did they say anything . Bill they didnt say anything there was an agreement to deal with. It was discussed. Bill but we dont have any joint statements . No concrete joint statement on that. No. But the Secretary Of StateRex Tillerson hes very disappointed with the russian response to all of this. According to Rex Tillerson, he said that this means russia is still in the camp of Bashar Alassad. He says hes disappointing, but hes not surprised to hear what hes heard out of russia. He look, this is how well deal with these guys in syria. If you want to deal with Bashar Alassad, its going to put you on the wrong side of history. Bill john, we appreciate it very much. Lets bring in Catherine Harris joining us for washington. Doesnt seem to be any chinese reaction in the sense that sometimes after a meeting, a day and a half meeting, there is a joint statement that we didnt get any joint statements. Putin postures behind the scenes. Is there any serious, serious reaction tonight . I wouldnt say serious reaction, but i would say the leading edge of this investigation right now is into whether russia had some kind of role, bill, in this Chemical Attack earlier this week, and whether a second strike on that town in syria was really an effort to destroy evidence and be part of a larger coverup of that crime. And that is really where Military Intelligence is focused tonight. Bill they had a drone, i understand correct. Bill russian drone over the area where the chemicals dropped and killed children. And a russian bomber bombed the hospital where civilians were taken. Is that what we are talking about tonight . Thats right. There was a drone immediately over the site where the sarin gas was released. And then about 45 hours later when the victims have been taken to the hospital, another drone showed up. Shortly after that, there was a Military Strike on that hospital. The people im talking to tonight say that fits a patent
that they have seen before with the syrians especially and possibly this case the russians that they wanted to destroy evidence at that hospital compound. Bill we can i. D. Drones anyway, so they were russian drones in that area. Is that correct . That is correct. Bill okay, now. The ron pauls of the world say, oh, no. How solid is the evidence that assad killed these 20 kids with sarin gas . I was told by my contacts that we have very high confidence and there were multiple streams of information from overhead imagery to radar, from information gathered by our partners in the region. And today they release a graphic that showed radar information. And you can see the Syrian Government chats over the site of the attak twice within a nine minute time
slot which is exactly when the sarin gas was released. There is really no doubt. Bill okay. There was always doubt among those who will not believe, no matter what you present, through them. I iran has been strangely signed about this. I havent heard any Saber Rattling. Have you . Thats a little bit more worrying. What you dont know. Bill right. One of the possible plans for retaliation that they considered when they were planning this whole thing out is that syria and iran would use their proxy hezbollah to launch an attack, that third party retaliation. We have not seen that yet, but that is an idea that was on the table, bella. Bill do we have any information on the swedish attacks, again, President Trump made that a centerpiece that sweden was destabilized by all of these muslim refugees pouring into the country. The country reacted vehemently against President Trump, but we
now have it will take a Terror Attack in stockholm, right . Thats right. A truck was hijacked and then it was driven right into this Department Store in central stockholm. Really, at the height of rush hour, people were getting ready for the weekend. This sadly fits a profile that weve seen mostly with isis or self radicalized al qaeda followers. And they are using trucks and cars bill to kill people speak. Today, they took one cost suspect into custody, but we have not been able to verify his claims is accurate. But these are the types of plots as you know, bill, that are almost impossible to disrupt. And they go right to the heart of the economy and also peoples sense of morality what is right. I mean, its so offensive. Bill we appreciated as always, thank you. Next on the run down from a senior u. S. Military officials
effective . It was effective in two ways. Number one, punishing Bashar Alassad for the use of Chemical Weapons and reestablishing u. S. Military credibility in the region. A lot of people talk about political solutions, they talk about the poetic solutions. There is never been at the poetic solution or political solution in the absence of military credibility. We cant predict where President Trump is going from here, but in the narrow entrance for punishing Bashar Alassad for using Chemical Weapons, and setting an effective deterrence for future use of Chemical Weapons, this attack was a success. Bill you heard of the Talking Points Memo that the Obama Administration trotted out susan rice and john kerry a few years back to say, no, we negotiated with assad and he gave up all of his Chemical Weapons. Of course, that turned out to be false. Do you see this as mr. Harmer does as an effective use of Military Power that will inhibit future Chemical Attacks . Um, i think it was a very effective attack. I think it was smart to uses with Cruise Missiles. There are still russians at the base to attest the accuracies of the weapon systems. I do not think it will guarantee it wont be used again. I think there is a very limited message being sent to assad, a very powerful message, overwhelming force. It was as our friend already said, a narrow message well delivered. But no. I dont see this guaranteeing. I think assad will trot this out again. And if we got the russians involved bill why would he do that though . If you trotted out again, that doesnt make any sense to me. He knows that trump is going to up it, because trump is not going to say, okay, im not going to do anything after you spit in my eye after i give you a warning. The next time instead of it
being 50, it will be 150. It will devastate the whole infrastructure of syria. Dont you believe that . Dont you think donald trump is going to back away from a punk like assad if he uses gas again . I didnt say anything about the president of United States backing up. You asked me if its going to stop it bill why would he risk his own neck . Okay. We are dealing with a crazy Man In The Middle of a war with a thousand different factions, and he still has, i believe, he destroyed 1300 tons of that stuff back in 20122013 and he still got it. I think you could use it again in a few months. In small doses. I wouldnt be surprised at all if he uses it again. Bill mr. Harmer, would you be surprised if this guy because it again knowing that the next time, going going to be ten times worse . I would be surprised if basher assad uses Chemical Weapons again for two reasons. Number one, he cannot afford
direct conflict with the United States. He can survive with al qaeda and isis. What he cannot do is cross a redline that has been firmly established and a penalty is being affixed to that. Second of that, Bashar Alassads military is on the narrow margins of survivability. The air force and all practical purposes barely exist anymore. The syrian air army no longer desists. That is why they need conscripts and mercenaries from afghanistan, he the Syrian People will not fight on the behalf of Bashar Alassad. He does not have the bandwidth to risk conflict. Bill doesnt he have the iranians he didnt have it before, guys bill lets not allocate our coverage. Doesnt he have the iranians helping him out, though . Absolutely. Hes got the full support of the iranian government, the Islamic Revolutionary guard, the full support of hezbollah and russia. With that said, Bashar Alassadhas a very narrow definition of success right now and that staying alive. There is no fallback option. Those under to bill you mentioned this last night. It russia. Is russia stupid enough to get involved with poison gas . Bad drones, as you talk about with catherine. I dont think i dont think, i know. Assad is not doing anything without russian approval and russian involvement. This country was gone and lost until the russians showed up. Assad is absolutely dependent on bill if you were putin and you knew the world is horrified at poison gas killing 20 children. Why would you i mean, why . Im not sure, bill. Look. Why would a former kgb Lieutenant Colonel say okay to use sarin gas . Bill this kind of attention to syria because i
think this hurts assad. His Survivability Rate just went down. Of course it does. The russians the russian involvement in this, they havent stopped. Again, i say this. They have been in syria, assad killing his own people. Which got everyone obviously upset about this is the 20 kids, babies, that were killed. Bill yeah, the gas. I get it. But hes been doing this for 56 years. I dont see any reason that they gave him gas. Putin would say, dont do that. Bill do you think putin would okay a gas attack, mr. Harmer . I think its a dispute that the russians werent aware that syria was resuming its Chemical Weapons capacity. I dont think the russians suggested this for theres a big difference between assad being dependent on russian help, which he is, and assad functioning as a mercenary for the russians, which is a stretch. Bill the warships that putin is moving into the mediterranean sea, is that just for show . Yes, thats part of the counteraction package. They send their ships in close proximity edge, its is an easy way to show that they are viable, they can still stand up to us without risking escalation. It happens in the pacific, atlantic, mediterranean, its not a big deal. Its just a show of force. Bill do you agree with that . Yeah. This ship has been coming in the mediterranean a lot. Bill check out colonel hunts new book Without Mercy about nukes in the hands of terrorists. Directly ahead, security tightened all over the world after the attack and another alleged Terrorist Incident in sweden, as we mention. Now judge neil gorsuch shea Supreme Courts to justice. What does that mean for you . Those reports after these messages. White house Security Council under president s bush and obama. Do you see any Unintended Consequences from this attack in syria . Um, theres a