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At least 1140 people have died in the last 22 days in eastern ghouta, including 402 women and children. joining us now, a journalist and author of the new book no turning back life, loss and hope in wartime syria. that is out today. great to have you with us here. >> thank you. >> on set. theres so many different nations now involved in this conflict in syria. sometimes for us here in the west, its hard found or wrap our head around it. how did this become such a global proxy war? because of syr...

Never be a resolution to the syrian crisis. >> as he was describing there, this is now a full fledged proxy war with so many sides being involved. i know youve spent a lot of time there oak in syria when you heard the defense warning the regime from doing that, how does that play out among the ground and the ap situation on the other side? are those empty rooms that come out of washington? >> they have been empty words for years since the infamous red line comments. i was in a town in the provin...

Bring an end to this conflict, what are you seeing to bring this to an end neighborhood? >> as he said, its been a proxy war for many years, had you mentioned the ones backing the regime, also of course the golf states were involved turkey the european state, there were some parties with the regime, some against the regime, so its a complicated battlefield. >> let me play you an exclusive interview with vladimir putin and my colleague megyn kelly. >> do you believe the chemical weapons attacks i...

A bazillion, a lot and huge. its huge. >> sandra: chris, what is at stake here? the president is going there for a reason. what kind of impact is he going to have? >> this is a proxy war between the republicans and democrats. the test is trump -- how much disadvantage are republicans at given trumps relatively unpopularity around the country. this is a district where trump should be popular talk about where steel tariffs would be popular. if there is any district in america where they would be p...

This is according to the uk-based syrian observatory for human rights. cnn chief international correspondent christiane amanpour is live for us from london. and unicef, the childrens charity, the u.n. childrens charity, actually releasing a statement with no words on this piece of paper. it has literally no words for the destruction happening to civilians there. >> reporter: which speaks in itself a thousand words. ive never seen that before. just to say that we simply have nothing more to say a...

Nikki haley calling out the russians this morning. >> russia can push the regime to speak a peace in syria, a peace that helps the syrian people. a peace that helps ensure the regions security. now is the time for russia to use that leverage. >> dana: so is there any hope of avoiding a proxy war in syria? michael wolf will give us his take. plus an american champion under fire. why shaun white is apologizing after winning his third olympic gold medal. ♪ you hit me like fire, shot me like a bul...

Use of that authority. so i think its appropriate to try to improve how we use that status. for the people that are here, lets make sure theyre protected. >> dana: all right. senator ben cardin, thank you. >> thank you. >> dana: dramatic video of a u.s. fighter jet destroying a russian tank in syria. are there growing concerns that this kind of thing could lead to a full blown proxy war in the middle east? plus, how the white house is handling new questions about rob porter and whether chief o...

Russian mercenaries were killed in a u.s. air strike. latest violence leading to fears of a proxy war. nikki haley laying some of the blame on the russians during a security council meeting this morning. >> much of the violence is happening in so-called deescalation zones. russia was supposed to guarantee adherence to these zones to help the political process. but then again, russia was also supposed to guarantee that all chemical weapons would be removed from syria. instead we see the assad reg...

Next question? how far are we willing to go committing our people on the ground in syria in what looks like its turning into a russia-u.s. proxy war in syria? >> well, our strategy in syria, i think, has been off, certainly i believe that strongly in the obama administration pretty much did nothing to help the syrian moderates at a time when we had plenty of opportunity to do them. and they kind of wanted to have a government similar to ours. those days are gone. the trump administration came in...

Of a multifacetted proxy war emerging in the wake of isis being destroyed in raka. >> dana: jennifer griffin, thank you. man convicted of setting off a pressure cooker bomb in a crowded new york city neighborhood has been sentenced to multiple terms of life in prison. he planted a bomb in chelsea in 2016. more than 30 people were hurt by flying debris that caused millions of dollars in damages. rahimi all planted another bomb in new york that failed to explode, as well as other bombs in new jers...