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Year to the day since the u.s. carried air strikes against them for the gas attacks in april. >> the president responded to do bombings to take out the places that launched those attacks. tommy lig tammy leitner, thank you. i was just commenting on tammys report about the presidents response last year. any are response from the white house? >> as you were talking to tammy, the president sent a tweet and says this about the crisis in syria. he says many dead including women and children in mindle...

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And -- after last weeks gas attacks in idlib. we are told the u.s. did not have prior knowledge of the attack and so far no intelligence intercepts show russian military or intelligence officials communicating about this chemical attack. joining us to discuss the presidents u-turn, live in washington this morning, i have to say when you get into the office of the presidency and you are sitting next to you know nato leaders and sitting next to the chinese president and your secretary of state i...

Rebel-controlled part of syria rushed the injured to local clinics. they claim syrian president bashar al assads regime fired the banned chemical nerve agent sarin. >> the gas attacks are continuing every day and notice o no one is doing anything. >> reporter: other victims were taken to a makeshift clinic built in a cave to protect it. there a father kissed his daughter good-bye. an activist said war planes were still overhead. then -- hospitals are often targeted in this war that respects no c...

What else the administration might do or where they draw the line, listen to what president trump had to say about that. >> when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the obama administration but they violated it -- >> they said they got rid of them. >> what i did should have been done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. and you would have had a much better, i think syria would be a lot better off now than it has been. >> ...

>> reporter: tonight, outrage over these scenes of horror and suffering in syria. an apparent war crime, a suspected sarin gas attack by the government killing dozens and sickening many more, young children among the victims. rescue workers desperately work to wash the chemical from the victims. children clinging to life, struggling to breathe. >> the gas attacks are continuing every day and no one is doing anything to stop this gas attack. >> reporter: this attack following two chlorine gas att...

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Blood coming out of their ears. >> rockets fired on those people had nerve gas 1400 people died in the attack. president obama had called the use of chemical weapons a quote red line. >> in no uncertain terms -- if syria crossed that line there would be quote enormous consequences. >> have you heard that obama said the use of chemical weapons would be a red line? >> yes. >> did you then expect something to happen? >> we thought president obama was going to stop the war. >> instead the u.s. and r...