Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), appearing midmorning on MSNBC, said he still had not been briefed on what prompted the strike.

“The question that has to be answered is what brought us to this moment. what’s the intelligence behind that? And what comes now?” Menendez said. “I fear that this administration used tactics but has no strategy in the long term … what we can’t accept is a march to an unauthorized war.”