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I'm richard lui in new york. here are the headlines we're watching here on msnbc this hour. president trump sending a letter to congress on the syrian air strikes. in it the president goes into detail on his objective to promote stability of the region and overt further humanitarian catastrophe. after the russians pointed out that there was very little damage at the base hit by u.s. tomahawk missiles, president trump tweeted this. runways are not targets because they are, quote, easy and inexpensive to quickly fix. secretary of state rex tillerson spoke on the phone with russian counterpart se...

Been a chemical attack after all. secretary of state rex tillerson heads to russia this coming week, but today he talked with his russian counterpart, foreign minister sergey lavrov. the russians say lavrov told tillerson that the u.s. strike plays into extremist hands. lavrov also suggesting the claims of syrian armed forces engaging in chemical warfare this week, quote, are not consistent with the reality. the white house vows it is not done with assad after the attack that triggered thursday night's missile strikes. but russian president vladimir putin warns the u.s. response dealt a signif...