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Using chemical weapons against its own people again. but when you start launching kinetic strikes inside a place as complicated as syria is right now, you are potentially engaging russian targets, iranian targets, turkish targets aimel molhedin has been reporting -- initial reports we got from reuters that explosions had been heard on the eastern side of damascus. richard reported moments ago, richard engel reported that two locations were known -- were thought to have been hit on the outskirts ...

Ends monday. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. . >> it has been quite a first year for president trump traveling abroad. he made a lasting impression from saudi arabia to israel and nato and the g7 and trips that didnt happen, including to great britain. here to break it down from nbc global editor for digital content. cal perry. what are you looking at? what trips just out at you? >> reporter: we have the top five the saudi trip gave us the best imagery we have seen all year. this was...

Style, if you will, overseas. they were trips that were marked by pomp and pageantry, swords and speeches and even some awkward handshakes. >> he did appear at times to struggle with the customary summit handshake. you can see him grimacing briefly. >> a kinder gentler president trump on display in beijing overnight. >> were already getting some reaction on president trump on how it went. he said of the pope today, he is something, calling the meeting fan tachtic. >> here to help digest all this...

Islands. shipping relief supplies to territories in the region. frances president is visiting the french side of st. martin tod today. the u.s. military is delivering aid to the u.s. virgin islands where many homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. cal perry, global editor of digital content joins me here. how quickly will the u.s. be able to get aid to those hard hit areas? >> it is happening right now. air drops are on the way to st. john and saint thomas. its a war zone type situation...

He end that had years ago. and i actually talked about russian adoption with him which is interesting. that was a part of the conversation that don had in his meeting. >> well, the news of trumps meeting with putin has now deepened divisions between he the president and his national security team of one said, diplomats and intelligence officials were dumbfounded by the presidents approach. mcmasters warned that putin is not to be trusted and advised the president against holding an official bila...

They will have a cobra meeting, theresa may the prime minister, that has also been announced that the equivalent of a gathering of the situation room there at the white house, that type of meeting will be happening within hours as well we are hearing. that is the latest at the bottom of hour, if youre just joining us. its been about 3 1/2 hours. the time line starting around the 10:00 p.m. hour locally in london, england. joining me now is nbc news global editor of digital content. this is a spa...

You who are concerned about my using personal e-mail, i understand, and as ive said, im not making excuses. ive said it was a mistake and i regret it. and now they apparently want to look at e-mails of one of my staffers and by all means, they should look at them. and i am sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they looked at my e-mails for the last year. there is no case here. >> well, the latest "washington post"/abc news poll shows that 59% of registered voters have an unfavor...

And then the brutal crackdown. [ gunfire ] at least four died in this assault, gunned down by men loyal to their leader, bashar al azad is the president of syria. western educated, he sometimes appears moderate and tolerant, but he rules with an iron grip. its a grip that now may just be slipping. here to talk about all of this is jamie ruben, and chrystia freeland, global editor at large for reuters. so to both of you, we hear all the time, syria is so is central to the middle east, more import...

He also said hes going to protect infrastructure money, other money, so while the first part that you just played is completely valid, look, when bill clinton handed things over to george w. bush, the fact of the matter is we were in a surplus. republicans in the white house did not pay for those wars, did not pay for the prescription drug benefit. but whats the prescription now? the president is still a little bit light on the details about really where the sacrifice is. instead hes saying i wa...

And, too, i asked him the question, the krugman question. i said, you know, look, peter, maybe you dont have to worry about this. maybe the economy is going to come back like a locomotive and that economic growth will take care of the deficit and the debt. and he said, you know, i dont think so. and the other point that he made, which i think is a really important one in all of these discussions is, we just dont know. we dont know how strong economic growth is. the prudent action, given that, is...