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More secure. from south korea, the vice president will head to japan. continue to provide updates as they warrant during the vice presidents trip throughout the rest of the week. looking ahead, tomorrow the president heads to wisconsin where he will talk about his buy america hire america at snap on tools in wisconsin. for those who arent aware, snap-on is a prime example of a company that builds american-made tools. well have a background briefing here in this room later this afternoon with sen...

Plus this today. not to get you real excited, but we will have another one tomorrow morning in advance of the nato meeting with the secretary general. this afternoons briefing, we will discuss a plan on reforming the federal government in reducing the size of the federal civilian workforce that omb was directed to produce by executive order, so we will be spending a lot of quality time together over the next 48-24 hours. in with that, i will be glad to take a few questions. >> reporter: on russi...

Kevin clark at the white house with the latest. its very that the intelligence is very clear. they dont doubt it a bit. >> no question. neil, i had a chance to sit in on a background briefing and the administration laid out step by step this idea that not only do the syrians use chemical weapons, its entirely possible that their partners in moscow have known about it. based on what we listento today and based on what were learning, even the many days after the fact, there are more questions, new...

Consensus within the intelligence community that there was involvement. >> reporter: in the background briefing, trump officials accused the russians of covering up syrians attack. in the past, the president has called us to be a very smart yet expressed admiration, does he still think he is smart and does that change the relationship? >> press secretary spicer: a couple things. number one, the president made it clear from the beginning that he entered office, thinking if he could get a deal wit...

The executive branch. that gives us three briefings plus this today. not to get you real excited, but well have another one tomorrow morning in advance of the nato meeting with the secretary general. this afternoons briefing well be discussing the plan on reforming the federal government and reducing the size of the federal civilian work force that omb was directed to produce by executive order, so well be spending a lot of quality time together over the next 48, 24 hours. with that id be glad t...

Thing im going to say is theres no consensus within the intelligence community that there was involvement. >> today in the background briefing, officials accused russia of assads use of chemical weapons. in the past putin calling them very smart. does he still think putin is very smart? does that change the relationship? >> a couple things. number one i think the president made it clear from the beginning that he entered office thinking that if he can get a deal with russia and our national inte...

Reorganizing the executive branch. that gives us three briefings and this today. not to get you real excited but another one tomorrow morning, in advance of the nato meeting with the secretary general. this afternoons briefing well be discussing the plan on reforming the federal government and reducing the size of the federal civilian work force that omb was directed to produce by executive order. so well be spending a lot of quality time together over the next 48, 24 hours. with that, i would b...

Remains a lot of disagreement behind the scenes about how in fact the u.s. and its allies should go about getting assad out of power and what that timeline should look like. of course, secretary of state rex tillerson continues to insist that ultimately it is up to the people of syria. but what you are seeing here i think is the complicated messaging coming out of this white house as it relates to its syria policy, katy. what are the next steps? we had a background briefing with a number of top ...

Because of its chemical weapons program. melissa? >> melissa: well be there live with david lee miller shortly. stay tuned for that. thank you very much, john roberts. helicopters flying over the syrian air spice destroyed by u.s. tomahawk missiles overnight. it is unclear though who they belong to. and now fox news has learned that a russian warship has entered the mediterranean sea and is headed towards the two u.s. navy ships that launched the air strike against syria. national security corre...

>> not likely we are going to hear from president trump or president xi today, but if this goes according to the way many of these go, it is likely we will get a communication from both countries and then theres good potential we will have background briefing later to tell us what went on during these bilateral meetings. >> shannon: we will count on you to keep us updated. john roberts, thank you. >> bill: let us give our viewers an area of what we were talking about, tricky to the north on the ...