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>> yesterday he spoke of personal chemistry and good intentions from chinas mark de alencar. then there was this. >> my job is not to represent the world. my job is to represent the united states of america. >> that was long before he ordered dozens of missiles be launched into syria in response to a gas attack by the assad regime. while it is true that campaign rhetoric often gives way to the realities of the job of president, mr. bertram. appeared your terns have left some conservatives wary. ...

President respond. but i think it will be in a measured way, and hes made it very clear he does not intend to, you know, put infantry on the ground in syria with respect to any of this. >> based on what youve heard from sean spicer and from secretary of dev fence mattis over the last few days, do you think the use of barrel bombs by assad against his own people is a new red line, or does that not quite reach the threshold of a chemical weapon? >> you know when i heard that i think what he was ta...

Inside the side and found his grandfather slumped over, lifeless. he said he looked like he had strangled or asphyxiated. moments later he went outside to scream for help from the neighbors and at that point he said i suddenly felt dizzy, fainted and then he woke up hours later naked in a turkish hospital. his grandmother also is in a turkish hospital and she said that not only did she lose her husband, but several other members of the family. in total its not clear how many people died official...

Behind them and whats the possible explanation why this town is being targeted again? >> reporter: well, from what were hearing from activists on the ground, ana, its believed the town, which is as you said the town that was the site of this awful gas attack earlier in the week where 89 people were killed has been hit again. were hearing from activists based there that at least one woman has been killed, three other injured. these sort of air strikes are very much regular occurrence in particula...

Comments that russia was either complicit or incompetent when it came to the gas attack. theres a joint press conference, ladies, scheduled for later today which could produce a lot more than the typical diplomatic thats coming up here in a couple of hours. heather: all right, thank you so much, leland. in the meantime, the rogue nation threatening a nuclear strike on the u.s. mainland if further provoked. it comes as north koreans prepare for a military parade this weekend. marks 100th birthday...

Quickly fix, and he put in parentheses, fill in and top. >> thats true. when we went into afghanistan, when we went into iraq, i was there for those things. those runways were all cratered, destroying everything that was inside, and it took literally hours to fix some of those runways once you brought in the army and marine engineers, and god bless the navy seabees, all that was done literally overnight in some cases. julie: there was a major precedent set before this, and i think a lot of peopl...

That was president donald trump on thursday night following the launch of more than 50 cruise missiles at an airbase in syria. a response to this weeks deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians there. the strikes came hours after secretary of state rex tillerson has been blamed for the gas attack squarely on training. there is no doubt in our minds and the information that we had support that the syrian regime under the president of bashad al-assad are responsible for this attack. i think the ...

Correspondent richard engel is standing by in london. he joins us from there. richard, this is one of those, there seem to be two clashing instincts in this country. everybody, of course, horrified by the stories of the chemical gas attack by the human cost of that, the instinct to do something. balanced with the memory of how horrified we were by saddam hussein, his treatment of his own people, his gassing of his own people. of course, the long-term consequences of the invasion in iraq in 2003....

Up. so maybe -- >> but assad -- >> may be ahead of the president. president. >> assad is not going to go on the ground though. always a redline. a president who is enforcing it. im so happy that we have a leader who has shown the world the apology tour is over. this is not the obama administration. we are going to get it on the shovel. when you have people like john kerry applauding this. aa shows a different type of regime in charge. i think the confusion is, anthony and kennedy, nobody really ...

Ended up not using them, he ended up deciding to proceed in two ways. he asked the u.s. congress to vote to authorize the use of military force in syria. there had been this clamber in congress that the united states must respond with military force. president obama said, okay, authorize the use of military force then, whereupon congress suddenly got very quiet and never acted on that. at the same time, a new path opened up in the wake of the gas attack in 2013. a new opportunity that was broker...