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So i don t see russia and iran changing any time soon. i wish i could say i saw something in this strike last night that would indicate that we re getting serious about dealing with the issue. look, it s not a military problem. it s a political problem. and, by the way, i don t think it was lost on anybody in the region that we paired up with the british and the french just at about the 100th year anniversary of britain and france dividing up the middle east between them. here come the old colonialists and new colonialists. let s talk about that political solution which, as the years go on, seems less likely. the president last night said that the u.s. is prepared to sustain the response using both military and economic, also diplomatic levers of power to stop at least the prohibited ....
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So that becomes this real serious issue and one of the things you look at is wind direction, wind speed, things of that nature at the time of the strike so potentially you mitigate those kind of effects. we know that the allies, u.s. and its allies here, were working very closely to make sure that there was no russia presence in any of the targeted zones. president trump just tweeting now again saying so proud of our great military which will soon be, after the spending of billions of fully approved dollars, the finest our country has ever had. there won t be anyone or anything even close. with russia now saying this was an aggressive action, what do you expect in terms of a response from them? and what the president is saying there, that our military, obviously, fully equipped to handle whatever come what may. do you have confidence in that ....
Pentagon is holding a briefing. cnn s barbara starr has been working her sources at the pentagon. we ll bring that to you live when it happens. but what are you hearing about what we expect to hear from them in the next hour? what we do expect to hear is more of that battlefield detail all through the night. they ve been collecting the battle damage assessment intelligence in terms of each target looking through imagery and other sources to see what damage was inflicted. did they reach their target? did they cause the damage on those targets that they intended to cause? it begins to quickly raise the question of what comes next. you heard the president there say that he is holing the door open to a sustained response but it might not be military. there might be other things that the u.s. would decide to do. now defense secretary mattis expanded on this point a little bit more last night at a late night press conference here. but right now, this is a one ....
Force. so all of this has to be brought to bear. the question is, is there any appetite to do it? and wooelt see what russia s diplomatic response is going forward. as of yet, you know this is a proportionate response to what happened in douma. not an excessive response. and president putin has called it an act of aggression but he didn t say it s an act of war against russia. so let s see what happens in the security council and whether any kind of political process can be salvaged from this rubble. and that s what i wanted to ask you about was this u.n. security council, this emergency meeting happening at 11:00 today. we know that russia called for that tonight, or overnight, saying they wanted them to discuss this, quote, aggressive action of the u.s. and its allies. what do you suspect the u.n. will or can do in this particular instance? well, the u.n. itself as a body can t do anything. ....