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Continues to attack his own citizens. heres nikki haley. >> cynical accusations of bad faith from russia will not stop us from speaking out. and theyre blatantly false narratives will not keep us from telling the world about russias central role in bombing the serial people in to submission. >> the problems of this relationship go beyond syria and go beyond the u.k. nerve agent attack. the u.s. and russia are at odds over the ukraine and russian intervention there and russian interference in ele...

Weather in chicago, maybe. i circle back to the conversation that the president had with vladamir putin last week where he has been strongly criticized by some for congratulations him on the election win there and not bringing up this recent nerve agent attack and not bringing up really important issues while on the phone with vladamir putin. what would his strategy have been there? >> what matters is actions and the president can congratulate vladamir putin, i wish he didnt, but to expel the mo...

Western countries this is a price that putin is going to have to pay, possibly it will deter him from doing something likes this again, exposing civilians to a nerve agent attack in the future. >> are they looking at this as a change, the white house says this is proof positive that were not soft on russia, the president himself, of course, just had that friendly conversation with putin congratulating him on the election, offering to meet, can the white house sell that position, that look what w...

>> not to the best of my knowledge. >> should they be? >> i think they should. it is a serious matter. i know we are. >> how will that -- how will we know the truth of that? how will we get to the bottom of that? >> we will get to the bottom of it because we will figure out who that was and who hired them. although im fairly clear as to who hired them? >> again, that is? >> it is fairly obvious. it has to come with someone associated with the trump organization. >> michael avenatti, thank you ve...

Retaliate, the u.s. could well respond again, either in similar fashion or in some other way, john. >> michelle kosinski for us at the state department. michelle, thank you very much. the big question now is how will the russians respond. lets go to moscow. matthew chance is there. matthew? >> reporter: john, thank you very much. well, you know, the russians will be looking at this sort of escalation in the expulsions with some concern, i expect, because it is not just the united states that hav...

Operative like anybody else. i dont think the president will pay a political price for his infidelity. and, again, i think you should bring on this show all the people who have been so high and mighty when other politicians have been in similar situations and refused to do so now. again, i think what really matters here is the law was broken, and i want to know who is investigating and where this is going. and at what point were going to -- at what point will we learn the presidents role. >> ali...

Standing up to russia gri aggressively enough. you could say these are the toughest moves of his administration against moscow. >> reporter: it signals a change in his administration. we havent seen anything about closing that consulate in seattle because of the proximity to a marine base. we heard from sarah sanders but no tweet or comment from the president. that will come up -- why doesnt the president personally comment on this when theresa may did just that earlier today, talking about the ...

Whether hell be successful remains to be seen. >> let me ask you this final question and take advantage of your legal and your political knowledge. degree of danger for the president in light of these allegations from stormy daniels, from karen mcdougal with similar details as well as other women out there who claim similar relationships. level of danger today to this president as a result of this? >> okay. level of danger on the home front, code red, a 10 out of 10. level of political danger re...

And thats -- they were also expelling diplomats there at the same time as the united states. it sends this message of unity from the west that this kind of activity, this behavior, the alleged nerve agent attack in salisbury is not going to be tolerated. it is a sign that patience is wearing out. on the more specific response, the russian foreign ministry issued a statement on its facebook page. saying that this is political act, talking about the united states and the european union. and its co...

Advisers in saudi arabia helping with the war effort. a bipartisan group in congress is trying to bring the united states back away from some of that support. theyre also talking about limiting arms sales to saudi arabia as well. president trump, of course, melissa, has a strong relationship with bin salman, the crown prince and sees the world through the same lens, that iran needs to be taken on in the middle east and that the rebels need to be kicked out of power in yemen, melissa. >> melissa:...