Can i just quickly to ask you if the Chemical Attacks crosses a red line for you . That crosses many, many lines, beyond the red line. President trump talks tough on syria. This is a time for President Trump to show the world hes not president obama. With syrian instead of a policy, instead of action theres just blame. Blame doesnt solve the problem. The country is safer with Steven Bannon not on the National Security council. This is just a Natural Evolution to ensure the National Security council is organized in a way that best serves the president. On capitol hill today, after weeks of fighting over Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch democrats are set to filibuster. Judge gorsuch will be justice gorsuch. We are talking rain and quite a bit of rain. Whoa, whoa the latest round of Severe Weather that swept across the south is moving into the midatlantic. Its going to be developing even more as it heads towards the east. 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He says he wants a House Ethics Committee to clear up charges of favoritism. He calls them false and politically motivated. President trump will hold a high stakes meeting tonight with chinas president. This comes in a week of major Foreign Policy challenges. Mr. Trump says he will ask xi jinping to crackdown on north Koreas Nuclear weapons program. In a News Conference with the king of jordan President Trump called tuesdays deadly attack on civilians horrific. Major garrett is at the white house. Good morning. Reporter syrias six year war presents a stark challenge to America First policy. Mr. Trump wrote, stay away and fix broken u. S. The question, can the president stay away now . What happened yesterday is unacceptable to me. President trump said wednesday the chemical weapons attack in syria that killed nearly 100 people changed his view on the conflict and the dictator ship of ba sar al assad. When you kill innocent children, innocent babies, babies, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal that people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines, beyond the red line. Reporter mr. Trump also argued if president obama had launched military strikes in 2013 in confirm to the first chemical attack things might be different now. I think the obama had a great opportunity to solve this crisis when he said the red line in the sand. A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons. Assad crossed that red line in 2013 killing more than a thousand people with gas. President obama backed off after the British Parliament failed to support a military strike and congress bached. At the time mr. Trump supported staying on the sidelines saying president obama, do not attack syria. There is no upside. The status of president assad will be decide the by the syrian people. Reporter as recently as last week, secretary of state indicated assads future would not be subject to international pressure. Imagine if you are that father and that is your child who has just been gassed to death by a regime. You will never, ever accept that regime as your rightful leader. Reporter Florida Republican marco rubio implied the statement gave the dictator licensed to act. When i asked the president yesterday if he was contemplating a change in his syrian policy he said only youll see taken together the president s remarks in the rose garden suggested a possible shift underscored by the president s declaration on this and other matters he is quote flexible. All right. We will see. Thank you very much. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley suggests that the Trump Administration will take action if the International Committee fails to respond to the chemical attack in syria. Holding up photos, haley blamed russia for protecting the assad government. Children foaming at the mouth, suffering convulsions, being carried in the arms of desperate parents. Look at those pictures. We cannot close our eyes to those pictures. Holly williams is along the turkey syria border and the victims there. A warning these images are quite disturbing. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Autopsies on some of those killed in this attack prove that a chemical weapon was used. Thats according to turkeys Justice Minister speaking earlier today. He lost his 9 mold twins in the attack on the. Theyre names are ira and ahmed he said. Say good buy my loves. He buried them yesterday along with their mother. Even in the hell of syrias civil war this attack was notable for his bar ba rich. Men, women and children left gasping for air and foaming at the mouth. Autopsies on three of those who lost their lives were carried out at this institute. They died after being brought into the country for treatment with around 30 others. Reporter survivors who had been brought here to turkey can be tested for a chemical agent but across that border inside the war zone gathering evidence is more difficult and more dangerous. The streets are now unnaturally quiet. Two days after these astrosty, many of its residents have fled but some are taken samples from the scene of the attack. They want to prove what it was that killed their loved ones. He says he watched his mother, father and nephew die. People were screaming its a chemical attack he says but you dont think about running away. You try to help people and carry them out of there. Reporter syrias foreign minister spoke a while ago and claimed that the syrian renim has not and will not use chemical weapons against its own people. Thanks. Everybody is horrified by those pictures. Ash carter served for nearly two years as president obama secretary of defense. He worked for 11 previous defense secretaries in both democratic and republicans administration. He was recently named director of the beltford center. Hes also associated with innovation at m. I. T. Ash carter, good morning. Good morning. Let me just ask the question with respect to this administration. What more can they do in syria to make a difference . The assad regime you saw what happened recently. That is assad. That is an atrocity and the russians are enable that. When the russians came in, charlie, you remember this, the russians said that they were going to do what they ought to have done which is to promote facilitate a political transition in which assad is moved out, the structures of the syrian state, not the regime but some basics of governance remain and the Syrian Opposition becomes part of the government and restores this country to the decency that its people deserve. They didnt do that. Instead they fueled the civil war. So what can can we do . For one thing right now is i think that additional sanctions on russia would that some on the hill are calling for is appropriate. The russians have responsibility for doing this. Responsibility meaning they carried out the attack . No. Theyve enabled. I dont have any reason to say that. Its clear the assad regime did. They didnt come in to end the civil war, they joined the civil war on the side of assad. But the Trump Administration says that the Obama Administration missed a great opportunity to solve the crisis in syria. Whats your response when you hear that . I wasnt secretary of defense at that time, but we are where we are today and thats where im realistic about where i was at secretary of defense and i thought it was important that we keep the pressure on the russians to do what theyre supposed to do e. Meanwhile, in the rest of syria, dont forget we have american troops there today who are very successful doing what has to be done in syria . Destroy isil and iraq because thats necessary because those thats not a civil war there intent upon attacking americans and we need to protect ourselves and we need to destroy isil in iraq and syria and we need to destroy the state and idea that there can be an islamic state. Thats important. Were doing that at the same time. In the civil war our approach has been to try to promote an end to the civil war and not to fuel the civil war. Not to take out assad . Again, the russian said they were going to do was move assad aside and the members of the regime hold on a minute. Five days before this attack happened, President Trump abandoned the goal of pressuring assad to leave power. That was a shift in u. S. Policy. Do you think that that sent a message that allowed assad to carry out that attack . I cant say that. This is assads responsibility. I think it is important for us to have clarity about our policy and consistents in the anunsation of our policy. We should talk about north korea. You know a lot about nuclear policy. Do you believe the North Koreans now have the capacity to deliver a Nuclear Weapon to americas coast . Im certain theyre trying to get that capability, charlie. How close are they . Because some are saying theyre this close . I believe that they are intent upon getting there and what we need to do about that and are doing about that, weve long anticipated that is we stay one step ahead of them. Thats charlie why we improved our missile defenses of our own territory, in both their number and quality. Thats why were deploying the socalled cad system in north korea, thats why we have 28,000 troops on the Korean Peninsula. Id like to see the chinese, especially, turn the North Koreans around for reasons i can explain. Im not optimistic about that but weve tried for 20 years. Its worth continuing to try but in the meantime we have to deter and defend ourselves. We stand strong in the Korean Peninsula. Theres troops there right now as we sit here right now, its evening there, theyre motto is fight tonight and of course nobody wants a war there. But it means theyre ready. They are ready. If war came to the Korean Peninsula, first of all im confident that we would win. We would destroy north koreas military and destroy their rejiem but it is an intensity of violence that the world has not scene since the last korean war. Its a very congested area, many, many civilians would be killed in the process in this process so its not something you can deal with lightly but we are ready. President trump has a big meeting of course today, tomorrow, this weekend with president xi jinping of china. The last missile test that the North Koreans launch, we saw the secretary of state issue a statement that the u. S. Has spoken enough about north korea. We have no further comments. Has the u. S. Spoken enough about north korea. Did you find that statement unusual . I think whats important is what we is to act and i mean that weve long been clear in opposing north Korean Nuclear missile but also their general aggression and provocative posture on the Korean Peninsula. I think that much is clear. What isnt clear to me is whether the chinese will ever do exercise what they uniquely have, which is carrots and sticks that could influence the behavre of kim jongun. Why do they not do that . I think there are two reasons, charlie. Both of which they fear the near term more than the far term. A lot of us are like that. And its a natural tendency but they know this is trouble in the long run and select a frog boiling in the pot, they havent jumped and the reason they havent jumped to your question is two fold. One is they dont want to see a collapse of north korea and they dont want to see a war on the Korean Peninsula because they know that would result in a unified korea quite likely were out of time but remember the president of the United States, donald trump said if the chinese are not prepared to go with us, were prepared to go alone. I believe today will be he said he was going to be dealing with the chinese on that as well as very important economic tlad trade and other issues. Thank you. Good to see you. Likewise. The president has reversed one of his more controversial moves. His strategist steve bannon was removed in a reorganization announced yesterday. Bannon denied reports he threatened to quit if he was taken off the committee. The new National Security adviser mcmaster led the changes. And now that flynn is going, theres no need for bannon to stay. More than 20 million merngz are in the path of a Severe Weather warning this morning. Tornadoes were reported from georgia to indiana yesterday. The strong wind level buildings flooded the road there. Severe weather is a threat today from South Carolina to new jersey. In the northeast flood watches and warnings are in effect. Reported twister tore through several buildings. Mark good morning. Reporter when the manager of this fertilizer store heard the bad weather was heading this way. It was the right call to send him employees home. 90 minutes later the storm was here and this is what the business looked like. A twister roared through this area ripping everything in site and whatever it hit it punished. Big tornado, big, big tornado. Tornados, hail, flash floods and high winds cause damage from the deep south to the midwest on wednesday. At least nine reported twisters touched down, one destroying several buildings in south georgia. The top on the whole house started peeling off so we knew it was a very serious storm. 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