anything else immediately in syria, lawmakers were content with notion that trump in coming weeks will come to congress, with a strategy on syria in the weeks ahead. eric: president obama he did not launch missile strikes because he did not get congressional authorization, that held him back, but he used a 2001 authorization after 9/11 to do a whole host of things, do you think that congress will try to tie the president s hands in dealing with this? or what he sends to the hill will satisfy them. this is a tough issue. you are right, on other hand, he can t go forward with more attacks unless he gets authorization, i think that president obama did those airstrikes with isis, and other actions putting some boots on the group there, using that 2001
twin babies. benjamin hall is joining us now with the latest. reporter: it was watching video of horrific chemical attack that drove president trump to intervene in syria launching the missile, speaking today, people who watch their family taken from them, it is easy to understand what drove him, and it was sobering moment. among family we spoke to were abdul hameed, the face of the tragedy, and reunited with family members who did survive, he lost 22. he described to us some thing he saw. as i entered house, whole family was dead. grown ups, dead. family on top of each other, my wife, my children, my brother, his wife. their children. my nieces, all of them. dead. after a few minutes, i feigned. reporter: among dead his
11-month-old twins, hig he burid them and his wife with his own hands, he spoke to us about american strikes. i want to tell president trump, the first strike of good, it saved us. but just a few hours later, the airbase continued working. it is like a challenge from assad. i can still attack, and from the same base. you attacked. reporter: not only are planes still taking off, they are bombing the up to. and at a greater pace than before. with nobody to stop them. assad is a criminal, he is killing not only human being, children s but animals as if they were the same, he is a war criminal. reporter: this feels is one of gratitude toward u.s., giving syrians a light at the end of the tunnel, but fear is also unless more is done to prevent iran and russia, backing up the
they are working their way toward a test of a intercontinental ballistic missile, we ve been clear that is what we want them to see. reporter: i am told that strike groups will arrive off of the korean peninsula this week, one submarine is with them, but u.s. officials don t talk about those operations. eric: lucas thank you. arthel: a strong message from trump administration with secretary of state rex tillerson, now saying that u.s. missile strike on a syrian airbase should be a warning to other countries, those strikes, after a chemical weapons attack in syria left at least 70 dead last week. fox news spoke to a survive or of that attack, a man who lost and buried hidden tear family his entire family, including
syria, and that there will be information for lawmakers about the legal justification for the strike conducted thursday, two separate issues, legal authority that he used terse thei thursday night. and secondly, what is next. and part of the reason it is sort of separated like that, is that lawmakers feel contents from listening to general joseph dowdunford, that is a one time attack. anythinging reaction from syria immediately with bashar al-assad. by thursday night, you heard a lot of lawmakers saying we need to talk about authorization for use of military force. however friday afternoon it became clear it may not lead to