Trump National Security Team All Agreed on Syria Strike

On Wednesday afternoon, the National Security Council convened in the White House, with President Donald Trump in the chair, to discuss how the United States would respond to Bashar al-Assad. Just a couple of hours earlier, in a press conference in the Rose Garden, Trump had denounced in strong terms the Tuesday chemical-weapons attack by Assad on the Syrian strongman’s own people. “I now have responsibility, and I will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly,” the president said.