. >> chris dickey, stick around. i want to bring in msnbc's matt bradley. we have him with us now. thank you for joining the conversation. we were talking about lebanon. hezbollah, very dominant and powerful in lebanon, walk us through what the reaction in beirut has been this morning to these overnight strikes. >> well, ayman, we're not exactly hearing yet from hezbollah. hezbollah is one of the primary allies of the assad regime. this is going to be pitting the united states not just against the assad regime, not just against russia, but also against one of the most powerful political groups here in lebanon and a group that has enjoyed so much support from iran. just as chris dickey was saying, this is just a sensitive -- shark tank that the trump administration is wading into here. such a triangulation. then, of course, you have tehran and the capital of turkey. these are all going to be sort of upended by this. you have donald trump, who had not really praised but had implied earlier that he was going to be a partner maybe with the assad regime in fighting against terrorism in

chris dickey joining us from paris.d joining me now is the french ambassador to the united states. ambassador, good to see you. you id recently the french and american political systems are comparable right now. lots of countries experiencing some kind of voter rebellion. how do you explain this election where these two outsiders polar opposites come in the two top spots? >> well, first, we had the rebellion in the sense that you had marine le pen far right, but also a far left candidate. actually who got 20% of the voters. in a sense we have our trump and our sanders. but the difference with your country is that we had also a centrist populist. obviously mr. macron has never been elected, he's 39 years old and he has campaigned against the system. but yes, campaigned on the sort of optimistic liberal platform. and apparently he has been very successful. >> what has happened here is there has been a call by those who are not on the far right to join forces to defeat le pen. now, if you are a french voter and you are vot

. >> chris dickey thank you. beautiful evening. you heard as chris was speaking rather a rare sound for champ elysees. it is a low flying police helicopter. we have seen too many times law enforcement forcing fans out throughout paris. we are told they executed an array of what believed to be a gunman's home in a suburbs of paris. we have a crime scene still unfolding. we'll take a break. our live coverage will continue on the other side. music: "werewolves of london" dude. your crunching's scaring the fish. dude. they're just jealous. new kellogg's raisin bran crunch with crunchy clusters and the taste of apples and strawberries. (excited) i got one! (jokingly) guess we're having cereal for dinner. new kellogg's raisin bran crunch apple strawberry >>> our condolences to the people of france again. it happened as i have walking in. it is a terrible thing that's going on in the word today but it looks like another terrorist attack and what can you say? it just never ends. >> the president talking about paris. oddly, neither leader in

joining us from paris, foreign editor for "the daily beast," chris dickey.do we know about this gunman? >> well, we may know many things. there are a lot of rumors floating around. marine le pen, the presidential candidate on the far right in a very extreme statement named somebody. the police have not named anybody but she named somebody. and said that he -- he had been arrested before for trying to attack police officers, bit just wasn't kept in jail long enough. whether that's true or not, whether that's just her playing politics, i can't tell you. but that's the kind of thing that's floating around. >> a couple things here. there was a name that was put out. we, of course, at nbc news have not authenticated that but somebody was identified. who did the identifying originally? >> well, there have been leaks out of the interior ministry and police, it seems, that have started putting out names. but there's also a name that was put out by isis itself, by the so-called islamic state. but that's abu yusuf albajiki, meaning the father of yusuf from belgium. th

join uh from christopher dickey, world editor news for the daily beast. chris as we're getting reaction this, russians and iranians need to understand that supporting assad makes no sense. we do not want a confrontation with them. i'm sure in the international world stages a well, people are asking what's next. but even more swhoorks o, what end game here. >> well, i think that's absolutely the question now. you know, the french, for instance, they're saying they were informed before these strikes took off. but while they have been opposed to assad for a long time, nobody here in france has ever presented a clear case of how you replace him and maintain a stable syria after that. that's what nobody knows how to do. the real problem here is that there is no force capable of moving in on assad and taking his position and stabilizing the country that is a syrian force on the ground. so the question then becomes do you send in a european force? an american force? a joint force? or do you just bomb and step back, in which case very little will have been accomplished

dickey. our msnbc contributor. chris, how are your allies reacting? especially in france. holland has taken a tough stance with their own air strikes. >> reporter: absolutely. i think holland is pleased with this. he was left twisting in the wind by obama when obama and the british backed away in a joint effort to punish assad for the chemical attacks in 2013. i know the french felt they were left in the lurch. the attitude is that's just great. the question everybody has is what next? is this part of a cko co- hair coherent policy? will this bring a settlement here or a one-off revenge for a particular attack or affront? >> chris, as you heard with the russian representative of the u.n. they are considering this an act of aggression. from the perception of holland and other eu leaders, does this enhance perceptions? maybe some negative, prior to the election and inauguration of president trump, but does it enhance his standing on the world stage? >> reporter: well, i think it does. at least for the moment. on the other hand, is there a feeling he is just wildly volatile.

we're joined by christopher dickey, world news editor for "the daily beast." chris, good to have you with us on this very busy day. we'll get to the international community reacting a little bit this morning. but first let me ask you about your assessment. the timing of this strike, the purpose of this strike. how do you read the events of the past 12 hours or so? >> well, i think that probably general mattis, the defense secretary, wanted to react as quickly as possible, and it appears that the president himself was very emotional. he seems to have just discovered that babies were being killed by the assad regime. beautiful babies, as he put it. and he wanted to show right away the united states would react and be tough. the big question is now what? where do you go from here? that isn't clear at all. you know, ayman, you've been covering these wars for a long time in the middle east and elsewhere. you know that when these kinds of punitive actions have been taken in the past, whether against libya in the '80s or al qaeda in the '90s, usually they don't have any go

chris smith. two men to the right is shortstop dickey pearce, who's credited with inventing the bunt.e a straitjacket. baseball uniforms have really changed over the years. i can see why. got to love this cap, though. take me out to the ballgame. so this is the bat. i see they're not playing with gloves. what about the balls? >> well, i have just the man to talk to for that. wild horse. >> wait. wild horse? >> that's his nickname. he runs the bases with wild abandon. >> you make those? >> i start with a rubber center, two cords of yarn. everything was handmade. >> ready? >> all right. >> really? oh, no. no gloves. aah! oh. it didn't hurt that bad. have you heard of the name archibald mcmahon? >> he's listed in the roster of the 1860 atlantics. actually, he played center field, and he tted third. so that's an iication he was one of the better hitters. >> after the 1860 season, however, he becomes a bit of an enigma. he may have played for a pro team in manhattan, but census records after the civil war show him working as a butcher in san francisco. after that, his only appearance in th

. >> with us from paris, msnbc contributor christopher dickey, world news editor for "the daily beast." thanks for being with us, chrispleasure, gigi. >> i think some americans might be watching and think french elections, what does it have to do with me? and the answer is a lot because if france decides to ride this anti-globalization wave and elect a candidate that would leave the euro, it could have far reaching implications for the u.s. economy. so i have to ask you, one in three french voters right now said to be undecided, are you sensing a shift toward either candidate in the wake of this latdest terror attack? >> well, actually, the polls taken after the terror attack suggest that emanuel macron, the centrist, is stronger than ever. but you really can't trust that. as you point out one in three voters claim to be undecided. i think in france you have to take that with a grain of salt. a lot of people say they're undecided when asked by pollsters but in fact they've made up their minds. and the truth is we just don't know how they've made up their minds. there are four candidates not just marine le pen and eman

dickey, world news editor at "the daily beast." he was the paris bureau chief for "newsweek" magazine. chrise. >> what do you think is the most likely outcome in the second go-round? >> the most likely outcome is that macron will win and by a fairly substantial margin. but this is his race to lose at this point. he's really not a very good debater. in the two debates that took place in the run-up to the elections yesterday, he really did not come across strongly. actually in the second one people didn't even talk about him. marine le pen is a very strong debater. she knows very much what she stands for. she has radical positions but they're easy for the french to understand. macron tends to get kind of wonky and kind of emotional. the debate is going to take place on the 3rd, may 3rd, four days before the election. so if he does himself a lot of damage in that debate, it's going to be hard for him to recover. >> we were just talking, trying to figure out who melenchon's voters would go for. is it more likely that they go for a centrist candidate like macron or more likely they have more in c