Bashar Al Assad Being News Today

Presidency? >> reporter: yes, they did take that one spring break ski trip. i want to be a little careful here because they are off observing the religious holiday of passover, so im not sure its another entire spring break vacation, but you are right to the overall point, which is i dont think if youre choosing who to sort of square off against inside the white house that choosing the presidents daughter and his son-in-law are the right people that you want to make enemies of. >> berman no long...

Strategically cunning to some degree. the 100% fabrication he refers to, well, hes pretty much saying that the entire story was fabricated. let me read the full quote here -- "our impression is that the west, maybe the united states, is hand in glove with the terrorists. they fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for at tack." now, the key point here is that, of course, the u.s. have said in their own statements, they believe this to be sarin gas and theres a huge preponderance o...

Will ripley, thank you for the reporting. >> all right, joining us now, democratic congressman elliott engle, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. i want to shift gears back from north korea to syria, because the breaking news this morning is our first look from the syrian leader bashar al assad, where he calls the notion that he staged a chemical attack against his own people a 100% fabrication, and he talked about the pictures...

Really didnt want president obama to get involved in syria, called it a mess, but within his first 100 days, donald trump, the president, bombed syria, as we all know. chinas another issue, especially on the issue of currency manipulation. the president said he was going to label china a currency manipulator on day one, and now he says hes just not going to do that. so, a lot of different choices and even more that we havent mentioned, back to you. >> like the multiple choice presidency. joe joh...

Congress. the war powers act has started. 60 days to come to congress. he cannot use the old aumf to just do whatever he wants. we want to know what his strategy is, and we want him to come to congress, and i think thats the bottom line. we dont have laws by fiat bite from the president. the president has got to come to congress. and right now we just dont know where he stands. so, if its a change of attitude, then i welcome it, but you just dont know, because one day its one thing and the next ...

"time" magazine to put him on the cover. he doesnt give a lot of access, so theres that. then theres also what the president has to be thinking through, and that is do you want steve bannon as your enemy? do you want him to go back to running breitbart and potentially turn the alt-right media against you? >> reporter: there is no doubt that that is part of the calculus going on inside the mind of president trump, weighing whether or not hes better with bannon inside or outside. bannon is obvious...

Trying to figure out whats exactly going to happen. we know his daughter will be here talking for the first time. that will be part of this in terms of us trying to find out more information about this case. we believe dr. dao is still in the hospital at this point. look, theres been a lot of conversation, even about the department of aviation officers involved in this, the fact that all three of them now have been put on paid suspension at this point. so, even trying to get their backgrounds an...

Supporting. youve got kurdish rebels in the north who are fighting with the turkish government, which is an important u.s. ally. youve got bashar al assad, as we just saw, making things up and daring anybody, you know, strictly an internal argument, daring anyone to challenge him. >> about a gas attack, which is amazing. but its basically, what are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? but you know. >> all right, guys, these are important questions, you know, and again, there are no two s...

President, congressman, weve seen a breathtaking, stunning reversal of course in the last 24 hours on not one thing, not two things, you know, more than three things. weve heard him say now that china is no longer a currency manipulator like he had said they were throughout the campaign. he reversed course on fed chair janet yellen. he reversed course on this export import bank. hes changing his view on china as it comes to dealing with north korea. heres how political writer mike allen of "axos...

Fabrication? >> definitely, 100% fabrication. we dont have arsenal. were not going to use it. and we have many indications, if you dont have proof, because no one has concrete evidence -- information or evidence. >> 100% fabrication. he says this as sources tell cnn that there is new evidence implicating the government, the syrian regime, in that attack. weve got a lot to cover this morning. barbara starr working her sources at the pentagon, nick paton walsh next door in iraq. and nick, we shoul...