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Strike from the area where the weapons were launched. it appears that the president is indicating in these comments that he ordered this attack on the site where these weapons were laufrnched by the syrian government against those civilians on monday. the president making brief comments, but as i was saying earlier this is the president really kind of setting the stage getting the broad highlights in terms of what happened tonight. we expect to hear from other senior administration officials. this is not a situation where the cameras go into the white house and everything is able to come out live into all of our viewers out there so that is why you re seeing the president make these comments to reporters at mar-a-lago. that video is now in route to some kind of feeding operation ....
We have so many comments by mr. trump before he ran for office and you re right about that tweet in 2013. he said the president must get congressional approval before going into syria here. all of those discussions will come in the coming hours and coming days here. i think this is a president who is inclined to act desiesively on this and of course he is consuming all this information now differently and more than ever before. when he was saying those other things as a private citizen, he was largely just basing his i got to i got to interrupt. hang on. stay there. i want to bring back in barbara starr. reporter: what we are now learning is somewhere between 50 and 60, more than 50 tomahawk missil missiles were launched between 8:00 and 9:00 east coast time. ....
Where you ll see these comments shortly, but the president making reference to beautiful babies cruelly murdered in a barbaric attack by the syrian government. as i was saying earlier you do get the sense from these comments tonight he was deeply effected by these images that the whole world was shocked by earlier this week. these comments have been given by the president of the united states as jim said to a pool of reporters. as soon as we get the tape of that, it s not broadcast live, it s not going to be a live address to the american people, we will obviously play that for you the second we get it. david, as you were watching this with your experience in the obama administration, we talked about a red line which would consider military action, what do you make of tonight? well, obviously this sends if the intent was to send a ....
President trump speaking to reporters. that should be coming in a few moments. this is not happening live over at mar-a-lago, we re getting a read out of those comments and you ll get the tape, but this is what the president said to reporters a few moments ago. he said assad choked out the helpless and slow and brutal death for so many even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this attack. no child of god should ever and then the quote ends, but we re going to get a fuller quote. no child of god should ever have to deal with this something like this or something along those lines. there could be no dispute is another quote that syria used banned chemical weapons and ignored the urging of the u.n. security council. the region crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize threatening the u.s. and its allies. this is what the president said verbatim, but he also talked about how he ordered this air ....
Tomahawks were fired in this attack. impacting around 8:45 eastern time. jim acosta is getting new information on what moved the president to change his mind. he joins us now. what have you learned? reporter: as we know the president has long been opposed to military action in syria. we ve gone through that time and again, but i was told by a senior administration official who was with the president in the aftermath of that chemical weapons attack in syria and this official told me that the president was effected, was moved by these images of dead children among the civilian casualties and that was the reason why he felt compelled to act. obviously when you are a candidate or even just somebody out there on the national stage making comments about foreign policy you can say anything you want but when you re the commander in chief things change. when you see images of dead children that is something that can change your calculus and i m told is that that is indeed what ....