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Fight isis. carissa ward was the first western journalist into syria. what does turkey say is its end goal? reporter: turkey says its end goal, jake, is to clear a large swath of territory, 200 miles wide, 18 1/2 moil miles deep into the country to completely clear it of kurdish fighters that they view as an existential threat. the second goal is to resettle the 3.6 million syrian refugees. as a result of the first two days of this operation, it is only more civilians who are getting displaced. some 60,000 forced from their homes already. that number expected to rise to hundreds of thousands in the coming days. and the real issue here, jake, for those civilians, is that they don t know where to go. ....
Exactly what that will be. carissa ward in istanbul, thank you so much. out front now, rand paul, he sits on the senate foreign relations committee. senator, always good to see you, you said you re certainty crown prince was involved in and directed the murder of jamal khashoggi. now you see this video of a body double in his clothes, wearing a fake beard on the same day he was killed. what s your reaction? a little too many coincidences to think this was an accidental death. you send a forensic pathologist with a bone saw in case you might have a fist fight where you have to dismember somebody. also having a body double. i think that shows this was planned. nothing over in happens that s not directed from above. you don t act without orders. it s stretching the credulity. ....
Strikes of bashar al assad. carissa ward has never seen footage of the aftermath of that day. reporter: i do want to warn our viewers that this is disturbing material. and if you have children at home, you might want to have them leave the room. when the chemical attack hit, some brave journalists from the aleppo media center, went straight to the seen at enormous personal risk. the footage they shot provides an up-close look at the horror of a war crime. that s why we felt it is so important to show. the attack happened shortly after dawn. camera man adam hussein says that warplanes are targeting the town. from his rooftop, he quickly sees this is no ordinary strike. they are using toxic gas, he ....
Ambassador, i have to start with your response of clarissa ward s story. it s unbelievable the chemical attacks in syria last month. what s your reaction? the most powerful line was that the living envy the dead or something to that effect. this is horrific. it s not just the abstraction of war crimes. this is the reality of it that we thought was the kind of thing to read about in history. but it s stunning and it s troubling that it s happening here in 201. . it s hard to imagine that someone can watch and not be moved by the images. was this a red line, so to speak, for him and for the world? it ought to be a red line. i think the previous president ....
Who were just simply associated with it. the only thing i ll say to that is we all remember covering the campaign. the campaign itself was very, very small. people who actually worked for the campaign that were on the trump campaign payroll was very small. trump world, trump land, and people who are associated with him is much broader. but i think it s important for that because you have a campaign, as you said, thafgs ve that was very small, but they want to keep this as far away from the president as possible. carissa ward is based here in london, and there s another headline that emerged very strong statement from the director of the national security agency and the fbi director that there is absolutely no truth to that speculation, that report that aired on fox news that there was that british intelligence had decided to go ahead and commit espionage or spy on trump tower in new york during the campaign. we heard the british government say that was nonsense. utterly ridic ....