letterman. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel, thanks to you for watching. hope to see you right here next week. kelly: we're getting a closer look now at the extent of the damage at an air base pummeled by american tomahawks, destroying fighter jets and hangars, but it hasn't stopped the syrian military from carrying out its own strikes. hello, everyone, welcome to a new hour inside "america's news headquarters," i'm kelly wright. julie: and i'm julie banderas. not slowing the regime's aggression, more than a dozen syrian air bases can still launch war planes, and syrian leader bashar al assad is doing just that, striking targets across his own country including one near the site of the chemical attacks that provoked the american strike.

fox news pentagon producer lucas tomlinson has the very latest. hi, lucas. >> reporter: hey, julie. fox news has just learned new details about ramped-up efforts by the u.s. military to protect the nearly 1,000 u.s. special operations forces and marines on the ground in syria. now, that's led to some, a slight decline in airstrikes against isis in syria, and as a result, you now have more u.s. air force f-22 fighter jets -- these are stealth fighter jets which fly out of the air force base in turkey, a short flight away from syria. for the moment, u.s. officials say the assad regime has not made any threatening moves, the russians will step up efforts to protect assad's air defenses. russian jets have been operating in syria since 2015. and, of course, the u.s. military is making this move in case there's any threatening moves from the russians or syrians. fox news was also given new details about the targets struck at the syrian air base, 23

syrian jets were destroy canned at that air base, three rocket launchers, two sa-6 surface to air missile sites, aircraft hangars and buildings. that chemical weapons attack was launched from the air base targeted days ago by those american cruise missiles. a senior defense official tells me less than a dozen syrian jets were left untouched making it likely some of those could be used again in the future because the runway was left largely untouched. that's because tomahawk cruise missiles are not used to crater runways. i'm told you need manned aircraft to put holes in runways. officials say up to a hundred russian military personnel at the base were left unscathed. senior officials say the strike using 59 tomahawk cruise missiles from those two u.s. destroyers was meant to send a message to the assad regime and other potential adversaries following the chemical weapons attack. yesterday the u.s. ambassador to

the united nations would not rule out more strikes in the future. >> the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more, but we hope that will not be necessary. >> reporter: and, julie, i'm told one of those warships is now deploying to an undisclosed location in the med to rearm. julie: lucas, thank you so much. kelly. kelly: the white house reporting president trump spoke with saudi arabia's king by phone. the king reportedly saying the decision was courageous, reaffirming saudi support for the syrian airstrike. kristin fisher is live at the president's mar-a-lago estate in palm beach, florida. kristin, what else was said on this phone call between the president and the king of saudi arabia? >> reporter: well, kelly, saudi arabia is one of our most crucial allies in the region. their support, absolutely critical, which is why president trump called the saudi king directly just one day after the attack. and here's what he said.

quote: the king reaffirmed strong support, strong saudi support for the united states military strike against the airfield in syria and thanked the president for his courageous action which both agreed was a necessary response to the horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. now, the white house says that there has been strong support for this strike throughout the sunni-arab world, there's also been strong support for the strike on capitol hill among both republicans and democrats. but the big criticism has been that president trump did not seek congressional approval before this strike, and now we're learning that today president trump formally sent his justification for this strike in a letter to congress. and it reads in part, quote: i acted in the vital national security and foreign policy interests of the united states pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations and as commander in chief and chief executive. the u.s. will take additional action as necessary and

appropriate to further its important national interests. so two big takeaways there. president trump saying that additional action may be taken. we already knew that the white house was planning on imposing more sanctions on syria for its chemical attack against its own people. but the other big takeaway would be that it appears that president trump is saying that he believes he does not need congressional approval for any of those actions going forward. kelly? kelly: all right. so what are you hearing about conflicts among the senior white house staff, and is there any truth to them? >> reporter: well, the white house says that all of those reports are flat out false and that they're being reported as a way to distract from all of the successes of the administration over the last week; the con fir be mission of judge gorsuch to the supreme court and this strike on syria. what we know for sure is that last night three senior advisers and senior staff members to president trump met at mar-a-lago, and these are the

staffers really at the center of in this conflict. on one side you have chief strategist steve bannon, on the other you have his son-in-law and senior adviser, jared kushner. in the middle, chief of staff reince priebus. he was, apparently, the arbiter of this meeting. but he, too, there have been reports that he too could be on the chopping block. president trump reportedly called for this meeting, said that they needed to sit down and all bury the hatchet, and by all accounts they were able to agree to move on. but as you know, anything can happen with this white house. and at the end of the day, the final decision relies upon one man and one man only, and that's president trump. kelly? kelly: all right. kristin fisher with developments out of mar-a-lago today. thanks, kristin. julie: turning back now to the strikes on syria, we are joined by lieutenant colonel oliver no, author of "counterfeit lies" and host of war stories on fox news.

first of all, i want to get your take on the decision to go ahead and strike the air base in syria. >> sure. well, julie, let's call it the trump treatment in syria. some observations. first, cruise missiles are more effective than leading from behind. number two, vladimir putin and the ayatollahs in iran and putin's stooge, bashar al assad, are hollering about the strike being illegal. and quite frankly, it's shameful to hear some of our elected officials parroting putin's talking points. the airfield was a military target, all the stuff that allows an aircraft base to be used as an aircraft base. and, yes, they have been able to use the runways not only because they weren't cratered, but because we might actually have to use them again. think about that. the attack was proportional and, as the president said in his

letter to congress, in a vital national interest to the united states. those are keywords in title 50 of the u.s. code which allows the president to take this kind of action when he perceives a threat that can be used against us, and that's chemical weapons being used against a thousand so -- thereabouts, u.s. personnel already in syria. it was legitimate, it was constitutional, and i just wish those americans would say so and stop parroting putin's talking points. julie: when you have democrats like charles schumer coming forward and saying that this was the right move, it is a bit concerning especially to hear from republicans like rand paul that are saying that this was against the constitution, that, in fact, the constitution says that he should have sought congressional approval. when it comes to the constitution and congressional approval, it is only necessary to seek congressional approval when it is an act of war, in other words, that you are starting a war. this is not that. this is a response to a

despicable war crime done by assad. the question now is what is next. does he need to then further this mission with congress' approval? because it seemed as if the white house says it is not done yet. >> well, look, there's not been a new authorization for the u.s. of military force in five years. obama was going to go ask for that and decided to back away from it because he really did not want to be pictured as somebody who's prosecuting a war. what we see happening now is an opportunity for, one, a congressional authorization. number two, you have to lay out a strategy for what your goals and objectives are and how you intend to accomplish them. the moment is here where you could do that. it's not going to happen tomorrow -- julie: right. >> but in the next few days, at least weeks, that moscow-tehran-damascus troika of terror can be close to becoming unraveled. other than pyongyang, they have no real friends in the world. number two, assad is in real

danger of a coup from his generals, and if he goes, hezbollah loses their logistics pipeline into the euphrates river valley. third, north korea's chubby little despot and his ayatollah allies and their nuke icbm joint venture are now in jeopardy because people are paying attention. i hope they're paying attention in pyongyang. there's no doubt in my mind that they're paying attention after the conference that was held down at mar-a-lago with the president of china. and lastly, turkish strongman erdogan has been trancing around with putin for about six years musing about pull -- six months musing about pulling out of nato. the fact that they were launched out of the turkish air base tells me that dance is over. julie: president trump tweeted an hour ago: the reason you don't generally hit runways is they are easy and inexpensive to

quickly fix, and he put in parentheses, fill in and top. >> that's true. when we went into afghanistan, when we went into iraq, i was there for those things. those runways were all cratered, destroying everything that was inside, and it took literally hours to fix some of those runways once you brought in the army and marine engineers, and god bless the navy seabees, all that was done literally overnight in some cases. julie: there was a major precedent set before this, and i think a lot of people choose to ignore it because when you look back in time at history particularly under the obama administration in 2011, president obama did not seek congressional approval before bombing libya. he got it later, but he did not go to congress first. in 2013 when bashar al assad did the same thing, launched a, you know, gas attack, he killed a thousand people. >> oh, yeah. julie: the president chose not

to do anything, then later said it was because congress wouldn't give him approval. he didn't need congressional approval, and so he went ahead and drew a red line. but, obviously, assad crossed it, and then we did nothing about it, and that's why we are in this mess in the first place, is it not? >> amen. the fact is our allies ought to know that we've got their back. and second of all, our adversaries need to know -- and i think, certainly, the message delivered in syria last night -- what they've got to know is that we will strike back, and we'll do so in such a way that they cannot stop us. the great news in all this, because i had some familiarity with some other attacks back in the '80s with ronald reagan going after libya, the fact is he did notify them. congress got in a lather about it, but it's not required. at the end of the day, presidents -- title 50 u.s. code -- have that authority. that's why it's there. julie: that's why they are called the commander in chief. >> indeed, it is. julie: colonel be north, great to have you on.

do not miss "war stories" on the fox business network, the life and times of harry s. truman, freeing france from hitler and they investigate the incredible life and mysterious death of general patton, 8 p.m. eastern time tomorrow on the fox business network. kelly: a major development after yesterday 's deadly truck attack in stockholm, sweden. police arresting a suspect who's been on their radar in the past. right now we're learning more about his background and what was on that truck when it slammed into a crowd. bryan llenas joining us live from our new york city newsroom with more on this story. >> reporter: hi, kelly. swedish police believe the 39-year-old uzbekistan man was the driver behind the stolen beer truck that plowed through a crowd in central stockholm killing 4 and wounding 15 others on friday. this is cell phone video of the suspect being arrested 25 miles north of stockholm. he is now facing terror and

murder charges. we do not yet know the suspect's name or whether he's a legal resident of sweden. the suspect had been on intelligence services' radar some time ago. he's accused of stealing the beer truck early in the day and ramming it into a crowd before, crashing into a popular department store. police found a homemade device that could be an incendiary device or bomb. swedish t says the attacker -- swedish tv says the attacker suffered burns after he failed to detonate it properly. police conducted overnight raids around stockholm investigating whether anyone else may have been involved. they are questioning people in connection with the case, but no one else has been detained. kelly? kelly: bryan, what has the reaction been in sweden? >> reporter: shock, surprise, hundreds of people this afternoon gathered at a memorial at the crash site outside the department store. mourners laying flowers and offering prayers, flags are flying at half staff to

commemorate the four dead and fifteen wounded. monday was declared a national day of mourning. sweden's princess visited the site. the prime minister urging citizens that they will get through this, and he has been walking the streets, speaking to people in stockholm. he says all indications are this was a terrorist act. >> the police are now investigating this, and they're in the midst of this investigation. so it is way too early to draw some political conclusions from all this. this is a moment for sorrow, to grieve. that's what we're doing today. >> reporter: and a lot of introspection as well. sweden prides itself on its open door immigration policy, and the country allowed some 163,000 refugees in 2015, and the prime minister reiterated that this will not change, that their open door sort of society will not change because of terrorism. kelly? kelly: bryan llenas bringing us up-to-date, thank you. julie: well, it is the end of

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two inmates serving life sentences now charged in their murders. part of the attack was apparently captured by the prison surveillance cameras. an electronics and appliance retailer h.h. greg shutting its doors. the company, which had previously declared bankruptcy, planning to close all of its stores by the end of may, laying off about 5,000 workers across the country. kelly: president trump sending a shot across the bow of the syrian government. the president ordering a barrage of tomahawk missiles on a syrian air base in response to this week's deadly chemical attack on is civilians. charles krauthammer praising the decisive action. >> the united states reacts, and quickly. unlike obama where you'd have weekes of public hand-wringing, remember when he came up with

the policy on afghanistan, took something like eight months? this is about 48 hours and america strikes. america is back, and it is liable to react now. you no longer have a free hand. and that, i think, is going to change a lot in the world from a single response like this. kelly: for more let's bring in scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. bush, former adviser to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and then dennis kucinich, former democratic congressman from ohio and fox news contributor. thank you both for joining us to share your perspectives on this. dennis, what do you say about all of this in terms of the retaliatory strike and sending those tomahawk missiles to send bashar al assad a strong message? >> well, the whole world, anyone with a heart, is expressing outrage over what happened. you see the pictures of these dead babies, how could it not move you? at the same time, with our big hearts we've got to make sure

there aren't forces around the world trying to manipulate america precisely because we're so so powerful. remember what happened in iraq in 2002 and libya in 2011. we're manipulated into those things. we've got to be careful that's not what's happening again. kelly: scott jennings? >> well, i don't believe we've been manipulated. i believe we have a restoration of american moral clarity. it is absolutely necessary for donald trump to have a successful presidency that he reinstates that idea that america's moral clarity will lead it to action. we had dithering in syria for years under president obama. hundreds of thousands of people died. i think obama's actions in syria are going to be remembered the way bill clinton's actions or inactions in rwanda during hits inside were in that america failed, people died. we now have a president who's willing to act to stop a genocidal madman which bashar al assad certainly is. kelly: there was also some strong saudi support to the u.s. the president speaking with the king of saudi arabia, and as you

know, the king of jordan, the king of egypt, they were also people he's now through his foreign policy is establishing or brokering some sort of relationship between those countries so that they can address the very thing we saw taking place there in syria, but also isis which is what we're really on the ground to do there with special forces assisting syrian factions that are against the government of bashar al assad. but, dennis, getting back to the point here, the president took this act, and he has what many will say the legal authority to do so, but members of congress say he should have gone to them first. would that have caused some delay in the response? >> well, the president acted after congress had already left town. they won't be back for at 16 days, so congress -- under the constitution, if we support our constitution, congress has the power to take us into war. and so that's something we've got to consider. the other thing i want to make a point about with saudi arabia, this is what i don't -- i can't

figure out. saudi arabia has helped to fund wahhabis, isis and al-qaeda in trying to take over the government of syria. assad is fighting isis and al-qaeda. are we now going to be linking hands with those who were responsible for 9/11? i don't understand it, frankly. i just have a lot of questions about how the heck that can happen. kelly: scott, dennis raises a point that he's had for a long time, and it's been well noted that he has always had concern about saudi arabia and what role they may or may not have plaid during the 9/11 attacks. -- played during the 9/11 attacks. address that, if you will, for me. >> sure. it's a lot of complicated factions depending on where and who you're fighting with in the middle east. it's very come will my candidated on the ground in syria. i think the overall issue is to two things. number one, assad is a pariah. nobody over there likes this guy. you can see from the statements supporting president trump, they're glad for what we did.

and number two, assad is a destabilizing force in some ways. when you're killing your own people with a banned nerve gas, that is destabilizing for the entire region. yes, admittedly, it is complicated on who's linked hands with who depending on what country you're in and certainly on the ground in syria. but i think it is extremely destabilizing when the leader of a country is using a banned substance to kill his own people, including children. and this sends a strong message: don't do it again, don't further destabilize the region, and more importantly for the president tp presidency, it sends the message that he's not to be trifled with. kelly: scott and ken mis, always good to see you both, thanks for weighing in on this topic. we'll be following it for a lot of days to come. >> thank you. kelly: also be sure to catch "sunday morning futures" tomorrow with maria bartiromo.

she'll talk to ryan crocker, former u.s. ambassador to syria, afghanistan and iraq about the strikes on syria as well as russia's connections to president assad. that's at 10 a.m. eastern tomorrow right here on fox news. julie: members of congress leaving washington for a two week recess over the easter holiday, but there is still plenty of work waiting for them when they return. so we're going to take a look at what is at the top of their agenda. plus, the white house downplaying reports of a conflict between two of its top advisers? we're going to take a closer look. but first, here's the president's former campaign manager. >> i never remember when george w. bush was the president all the intrigue about andy card who had been the chief of staff for five years finally leaving or when barack obama changed out rahm emanuel or all the other people. there was never all this media hype around it. if there's any of those conversations, done behind closed doors. ♪ ♪ e options.

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♪ kelly: members of congress are out for a two week break over easter, but they'll have plenty of work waiting for them when they return, like health care reform. house speaker paul ryan insisting they're close to reaching an agreement to repeal obamacare. peter doocy is in our d.c. bureau with more details and, peter, how likely is it that obamacare is repealed and replaced in the next few weeks? >> reporter: depends which republican you ask, kelly. the leadership, like the speaker of the house, paulline, says the 200-day plan they have to take advantage of controlling the entire government is still on track. item number one is health care reform. item number two is tax reform, but rank and file republicans like the influential moderate congress bank charlie dent are not putting much stock in the speaker's confidence. >> i don't believe that we are as close as many would say on the health care bill right now. yes, there was an amendment

offered which on balance was good, $15 billion over eight years for high racing pools -- high risk pools, but there are other, in my view, structural flaws with the legislation. >> reporter: the most pressing thing congress is going to have to deal with though when they get back from recess is funding the government. they're going to have heads than a week to approve a budget or there's going to be a shutdown. kelly. kelly: yeah, a lot of people are saying there's a lot on their plate right now. for example, is there any chance at all that congress will come back to debate military action in syria? >> reporter: that's something that the minority leader, nancy pelosi, wants. but the speaker's office says there has not been in a change in the schedule, and top democrats in the senate don't know what the point of coming back so quickly would be. >> we can't act on authorization unless the president asks for authorization. so there's nothing for us to stay here to act on, because there's no indication that the president's coming forward with a request to congress. >> reporter: and it's interesting, today president

trump sent a letter to congress filled with details of this week's airstrikes in syria. he says if the u.s. needs to take additional action there, he will keep congress informed, but he does not say he plans to ask them for permission if there is a next time. kelly: and that letter was a letter of justification, right? >> reporter: right. kelly: peter doocy reporting from our d.c. bureau, thanks. julie: the white house downplaying reports of in-fighting amid growing tensions in the trump administration. in fact, two of the top advisers to president trump, steve bannon and jared kushner, reportedly getting together to smooth thing over. for more i'm joined now by bob cusack, editor-in-chief for " the hill." okay. let's try to separate fact from fiction here, because it seems it's hard to draw the line in the sand. the word is that the meeting on friday between top white house adviser steve bannon and jared kushner was led by white house

chief of staff reince priebus who was reportedly told by the president on thursday to, quote, work this out. is there any truth to this? >> well, listen, where there's smoke, there's fire about these personalities at the white house. do i think some of it's overblown? sure. but this -- you know, reporters respect making this conflict up. and the problem for the trump white house is that this is the story. not the trump agenda. and he's got this crucial stretch coming forward whether that's on health care or funding the government or tax reform, and the fact that you have some in-fighting without a doubt at the white house is taking away from the president's agenda. he just got a big win with neil gorsuch -- julie: and syria. >> and syria. both parties praising his action on syria. so he really needs to use that momentum and get stuff done legislatively. julie: what seems odd to me is amidst the alleged in-fighting, there also is talk about trump fighter priebus who supposedly set these meetings up. a source at the white house says

of priebus' ouster, he is staying. >> yeah. julie: so something just doesn't add up here. i mean, why would priebus be selected to hold this meeting if he's supposedly out? >> yeah. i mean, there have been many, many reports that priebus is on his way out. i think if you get rid of priebus now, there's actually a lot more chaos. do you have a replacement for priebus? and priebus has a good relationship with speaker ryan. and the problem is that health care didn't get done, so there's been a lot of finger pointing. but that finger pointing should not be in the press. it may be behind closed doors you can have battles, but thereby a lot of leaks from a lot of people in the administration, and that doesn't help trump get stuff done. julie: bannon's removal earlier in the week from the national security council, obviously, exacerbating the feud. but there's also word supporters for bannon are at odds with kushner, calling the kushner side the democrats. have you heard any more about that? >> yeah.

that has been alleged, that kushner is not a real republican. kushner certainly has a lot of power within the white house. he's not done press interviews, which i think is actually smart. you know, the people that are interacting a lot with the press have been kind of, as they say, kind of flying too close to the sun, have been burned -- julie: i agree. no -- >> so i think the ones that are not doing that, they're the smart ones. julie: yeah, no. i honestly think the best is to just stay away from the press, because when they do talk to the press, things are said, and then the words are twisted, and it just becomes a bigger nightmare. whether these reports are blown out of proportion or not, there is still something pretty significant to say about how unconventional it is, thank you. first of all, this trump administration to have the president's son-in-law, first of all, as an acting adviser or just being on the administration at all. not to mention that both kushner and bannon are washington outsiders. >> uh-huh.

yeah, no, this is a unique white house, there's no doubt about it. are there power struggles in every white house? of course there are. are there so many reports of it spilling out into the press? not in the first hundred days, certainly. but when you're not getting things done, that's a problem. i think president trump, he's not going to play by the book in a lot of areas. his campaign was so unconventional, so his presidency's going to be unconventional as well. the problem is, is that so far they haven't had a lot of big, big wins legislatively. they've gotten rid of some obama-era regulations, but the big things are health care and tax reform and transportation, and they -- this is a crucial stretch. they've got to make progress over the next couple of months, or they're not going to have much at 100 days or 200 days. julie: steve bannon seemed at the very beginning of his administration to be calling a lot of the shots, i mean, if you remember, obviously, with the travel ban, for example. a lot of people pointed the fingers at steve bannon, and they believe that he got those ideas and put them in president trump's head.

it seems now though that he might be losing a bit of control, and maybe that's why these rumors are swirling that perhaps he doesn't have as much power as he once yielded. any truth to that, you think? >> well, i think -- that, i think, is a little bit overblown, because he was removed from the national security council. that could have been something that the national security adviser, mcmaster, wanted. but just because he was removed from that council does not mean he does not have trump's ear. he and trump are pretty close, but i do think when this big thing happened and it was front page news, well, then other people within the administration who don't like bannon have an incentive to pile onto him. julie: yeah. i mean, there's always in-fighting, but i think with this administration people are paying extra close to it. it'll be interesting to see. i'm sure we'll hear more, and there's always leaks. that keeps it exciting too. [laughter] bob cusack, thank you very much. >> thanks, julie. julie: kelly. kelly: a horrifying turn of events on a cruise. a week after renewing his

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korea as it tries to develop nuclear weapons, and the attack may have gotten kim jong un's attention. overgone chang, who's an -- gordon chang, who's an expert on asia, tells fox news it, quote: tells kim jong un that he must now heed american military power, something that he probably dismissed before. kim's father, kim jung-il, disappeared from public view in 2003 at the time of the iraq war. and it will be telling if he similarly goes into hiding. james kim check is a fellow -- excuse me, losing my voice there -- is a fellow with the foreign policy initiative and a correspondent with "the daily beast." james, thanks for joining us today. >> thank you. kelly: so kim jong un, what do you think his response is to what took place in terms of the united states striking and launching a tomahawk cruise missile, several of them, into syria? >> well, i would hope he's a little frightened. i mean, if we recall, it was

barack obama who said there was going to be a red line if bashar al assad used chemical weapons. he used the weapons, and that red line disappeared. and i think president trump has belatedly sent the message that perhaps the united states will be a more credible military power and will back up its threats with force. now, that said, you know, north korea can do a lot more damage to the united states and its allies than syria can. north koreas has nuclear weapons. the city of seoul is just a couple dozen miles from the demilitarized zone. i mean, it could wreak a lot of havoc and kill millions of people if the united states were to launch any sort of military attack on north korea. so, you know, kim jong un, he might go into hiding, but i wouldn't think he's going to be particularly afraid of being, you know, overthrown or anything like that. kelly: here's what's interesting about all of this if you look at the timing of the strike. the president of the united states sitting down with the

president of china, they're having dinner together. he pieces himself -- he excuses himself, he gives an address to the nation to explain why the attack took place -- not the attack, but the strike -- and then he goes back and has dinner with the president of china. you would love to be a fly on the wall the hear what these two leaders discussed particularly as it relates to north korea and north korea's belligerent behavior and provocative answer actions in that region and the fact that china could do something about this by telling kim jong un to knock it off. >> yeah. i mean, the chinese are going to be crucial in any resolution to the korean conflict. you know, 85% of north korea's trade is with china. and we're not going to be able to handle this problem unilaterally. we're going to have to have the chinese onboard. and that's why i think it's important that in syria at least, you know, president trump -- i think he was right to do what he did with this strike, but it needs to be part of a broader strategy. it just can't be a one-off, you

know, launching of missiles. this needs to be part of a broader, long-term strategy the get rid of the assad regime, and i think once we do that, it'll be easier for us to bring the chinese onboard in dealing with north korea. kelly: well, james, certainly many people in the united states would agree with you on that measure. but again, you have to go to the dynamics of what these two leaders had been discussing prior to the strike and afterwards, and perhaps we'll see it all come out as we hear more about president trump's foreign policy as it relates to china. and you know north korea had to be put on table. the president has said he doesn't like what's going on with north korea, so it had to be on the table. >> it absolutely has to be on the table. and i think, you know, one way or perhaps solving this is that we get rid of kim jong un and perhaps leave the regime in place. i think the chinese don't like kim jong un, he's unpredictable.

at the same time, they don't want a unified korea that's a democratic country, it's an ally of the united states. they like the status quo in that sense. so maybe we can meet them halfway, and if we can get rid of kim jong un and you can put in some sort of, you know, autocratic leader who's maybe pro-chinese but at least who's not threatening the world with nuclear arms and threatening to attack our allies -- kelly: right. before i let you go, what do you think china's now thinking about president donald trump as it relates to this strike that he took against syria? >> i think it's a little too soon to tell. i mean, i think donald trump is unpredictable. i mean, i like -- you know, i support what he did. i think it was long overdue that we punish the assad regime for this. but, you know, you have to look at years and years and years donald trump was saying don't go into syria, don't bomb syria, we have to fight isis. and now all of a sudden after just 48 hour he's changed his mind. so i'm not sure if this is emblematic of a deeper change in

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kelly: fox news alert, protests in venezuela showing no signs of losing steam. thousands taking to the streets to demand the removal of the president, calling him a dictator after the government blocked an opposition figure from running for office. police firing live ammunition and tear gas into the crowd. local reports saying at least two people were injured. we're following that story. julie: a fox news alert, the hunt is on in wisconsin for a man police are calling a national threat. he's accused of stealing guns, then sending an angry manifesto to president trump. will carr has more on this. do we have any idea, first of all, what drove him to do this? >> reporter: not at this point. they're poring over the manifesto, julie, that you just talked about, and this is now a nationwide manhunt with the fbi offering a $10,000 reward.

it all started tuesday when authorities say he broke into a gun school in janesville, wisconsin. he allegedly stole 16 high-end firearms, and authorities believe he has a bulletproof vest and a military-style helmet. a short time after the burglary, authorities say that he torched his car and then disappeared. then thursday a so-called associate told authorities that he made some kind of vague threat at his school causing a number of schools in wisconsin to close on friday. about a 161-page manifesto allegedly sent to president trump, i'm told that includes disrespect for public officials and law enforcement calling both, quote: agents of the 1% who enslave and keep the population down. cell phone video captures the moments right before the manifesto is put in the mail. >> anybody that god doesn't love you, you might want to read it. there it is getting shipped.

revolution. it's time for change. >> reporter: today authorities released a picture of him at a gas station. he's considered armed and dangerous, and while they think he's in wisconsin, julie, one member of law enforcement told me he really could be anywhere at this point. julie: all right. thank you very much, will carr. very, very bizarre. kelly: well, hopefully what we've just seen will help us. that will do it for us right now. eric shawn and arthel neville will keep it going. julie: i'll see you, seven eastern on "the fox report." see you then. ♪ ♪ mr. parker, my parents have allstate. they have this claim satisfaction guarantee. really? their claim experience is fast, fair, and hassle-free or they get their, like, money back. saraaah!!! come to prom with me!! no. -hey mr. parker. claim satisfaction guarantee, only from allstate.

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eric: and we begin with a fox news alert this afternoon. syrian war planes carrying out attacks on opposition forces in the wake of the u.s. missile launch on one of its most strategic air bases. video now showing the destruction to that air base we attacked that, of course, was authorized by president trump on thursday night. well, the syrian government is now launching attacks of its own against the rebels from that same air base, almost as an answer to the american missile strikes. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. arthel: and i'm arthel neville. bashar al assad's air force still has more than a dozen other bases. they used one of those bases today to hammer rebel-held areas across the country, even targeting the town