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Never were one of the signato signatories of the convention. theres no doubt at that republicies under saddam hussein use -- iraqis under shuk uaddam hussein used chemical weapons. there was a long war in the 80s against iran. the iraqis used it then. if you listen to the obama administration rate now, theres no doubt in their minds that the regime of president bashar al assad is doing exactly the same thing right now despite all the denials coming from damascus. the key question is what if anyt...

Attack. and it was being analyzed in secure locations. thats why the white house tone changed so quickly from fridays "get the inspectors in" to sundays "its too late to be credible." and its why an administration official sounded so confident in saying there is little doubt at this point that a chemical weapon was used by the syrian regime against civilians. [ siren ] >> reporter: the presidents newly updated options include cruise missiles launched from one of four navy destroyers in the medit...

Last week. there were flow injuries in this mornings sniper -- no injuries in this mornings sniper shooting, but no word on who is responsible for it. activists say the u.n. inspectors later reached the site and did check the area with doctors. our chris lawrence is covering this developing story. >> reporter: the bombs are falling -- [ explosions ] >> reporter: the accusations flying. now the pressures on president obama to defend his red line on chemical weapons which rebels claim killed more ...

Im ashleigh banfield. monday, august 26th. lets get started and get straight to the big headlines. in syria, the united nations says sniper fire hit one of its vehicles carrying u.n. weapons inspectors who were just trying to check for evidence of an alleged chemical weapons attack. there were no injuries, luckily, and no word on who was pulling the trigger in that sniper attack. activists say the inspectors later reached the alleged attack site and had been checking for evidence with doctors th...

Do you have any ideas from your sources on what president obama is doing today given this most recent news? >> i think its clearly a crisis. i dont know if hes going to be making a final decision today, tomorrow, later in the week. but the schrock clearly ticking. my suspension -- clock is clearly ticking. my suspicion is that he will wait for to see hear from observers. theyll submit a report to the united nations. the security council will get the report. the president will see it. russia will...

I dont think that would be a big problem. the big issue is does the obama administration really want to get involved militarily in syria right now. >> and can i just ask you -- im not sure if anyone knows the answer to this question. for russia and its intransigents, is it a political intransigence how it would be seen by the world, or is it bigger than that in terms of financial need for syria? because you know, in the korean war, they just boycotted the security council. that allowed the unite...

Opportunity on "new day" to speak with the new york attorney general, eric schneiderman who said trump did not deliver. simple, did not deliver, on the promises to the students. have a look. >> mr. trump claims he wrote the curriculum, was very involved. he said it himself. the president said that he insist odysseying all the promotional materials, trump, and was the pitchman. he was in the videos. people came thinking they would meet him. all they got was the chance to stand next to a life-size...