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Thing i'm going to say is there's no consensus within the intelligence community that there was involvement. >> today in the background briefing, officials accused russia of assad's use of chemical weapons. in the past putin calling them very smart. does he still think putin is very smart? does that change the relationship? >> a couple things. number one i think the president made it clear from the beginning that he entered office thinking that if he can get a deal with russia and our national interest which i discussed during the opening remarks, part of secretary tillerson's conversation wit...

Reorganizing the executive branch. that gives us three briefings and this today. not to get you real excited but another one tomorrow morning, in advance of the nato meeting with the secretary general. this afternoon's briefing we'll be discussing the plan on reforming the federal government and reducing the size of the federal civilian work force that omb was directed to produce by executive order. so we'll be spending a lot of quality time together over the next 48, 24 hours. with that, i would be glad to take a few questions. ken? >> sean, russia to start, does the administration believe th...

Remains a lot of disagreement behind the scenes about how in fact the u.s. and its allies should go about getting assad out of power and what that timeline should look like. of course, secretary of state rex tillerson continues to insist that ultimately it is up to the people of syria. but what you are seeing here i think is the complicated messaging coming out of this white house as it relates to its syria policy, katy. what are the next steps? we had a background briefing with a number of top officials who essentially accused russia of trying to cover up the chemical weapons attack in syria,...

Because of its chemical weapons program. melissa? >> melissa: we'll be there live with david lee miller shortly. stay tuned for that. thank you very much, john roberts. helicopters flying over the syrian air spice destroyed by u.s. tomahawk missiles overnight. it is unclear though who they belong to. and now fox news has learned that a russian warship has entered the mediterranean sea and is headed towards the two u.s. navy ships that launched the air strike against syria. national security correspondent jennifer griffin join us live from the pentagon. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: ...

>> not likely we are going to hear from president trump or president xi today, but if this goes according to the way many of these go, it is likely we will get a communication from both countries and then there's good potential we will have background briefing later to tell us what went on during these bilateral meetings. >> shannon: we will count on you to keep us updated. john roberts, thank you. >> bill: let us give our viewers an area of what we were talking about, tricky to the north on the northern border. capital city damascus down here in the south. this is the province where the chemi...