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Broader. i should start by saying there is a decision making meeting that hasn t quite happened yet. but there are options on the table for president trump and they include two that are are what i call broader than what we saw last april. that was more of a pin peck strike that the u.s. knew where the chemical weapon strike came from and was trying to do it again. if thus strike was by the syrian regime, which all indications are that it was, then that strike last april dud not stop it. soeit looks like this will be broader. will it actually target iranian or russian military there in the count country? it seems more like laeeit would be multiple targets the u.s. will strike. but president trump, he s really boxed himself in a corner with ....
Tweeted this this morning. we don t have it, she said in her tweet, any further attacked on to the people of syria will be blamed on a side, but also on russia and iran who supported him killing his own people. clearly this was a warning also to russia and iran. that s right and we heard similar reaction in april saying russia and iran should be accountable for what the assad regime is doing. that s not to save american military strikes against russians and iranians, and set it s setting a predicate that if there is u.n. security council action in the wake of a chemical weapon strike that perhaps russia and iran could find themselves penalized or targeted by that action. i think also, there s an effort to stop iran and syria and russia from escalating the conflicts. we ve seen a syrian jet down by ....
Players syrians, russians, the iranians, hezbollah, is there anyone in here whose diary it would be to draw in the united states? i can think of a lot of players who might want to get the united states bog down in a another conflict the middle eas middle east. that s part of the biggest question i have for the trump administration. we were considering air strikes in 2013 when we went to congress and asked for their permission to do air strikes and they said no. we had outlined one specific plan for what this might look like. we haven t seen a plant from administration yet beyond at least tomahawk missiles tonight. so for me, i think that the iranians or hezbollah or others might want the u.s. to be bogged down in the middle east. president trump and handed a stroke out very strongly about the kind of intervention including places like syria. i really will be looking over the coming days for a strategic ....
Focused on russia, focused on the assad regime. this is all while the trump administration is trying to get china to pressure north korea to halt its weapons development program, its nuclear program, its missile program. a couple of days ago north korea launched another missile. this is all about on one hand getting russia to pressure the assad regime, and on the other hand getting china to pressure its ally north korea. its two ends of the globe here. aggression continues on both sides. thank you very much. live from the state department tonight. their headline around the world today, stay right there. across the world, the newspapers of our leading with this. the sun newspaper in the united kingdom, one owned by our parent company, has just been released there were there five hours later. ready 5 minutes past 5:00 in the morning and the broad type headline is no child of god should suffer such hor. donald trump orders 59 tomahawk ....
They want to leave themselves face if assad decides to react, if he decides to carry out another attack, they need room to escalate, frankly. if they were to have to respond again. they have to leave something on the table. they decided that even though senator john mccain and lindsey graham today had been calling for the trump administration to take out assad s air force, to eliminate the air force so they can t barrel bombs his people again, so he can t ever conduct eight chemical weapon strike. he has missiles that he can launch chemical weapons with. this was a warning, this is a warning to assad to not do this again. they left themselves m for the . jennifer griffin from the pentagon tonight. thank you. i ve just gotten word from the associated press is beirut where ....