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Affect of getting gassed is the terror. it's the memory. the chemical weapons, it's a weapon of terror. the whole point of using chemical weapons is to terrorize people, to make them know that there is no place for you to hide because during the bombardment, people go into the basements and to the lower levels but when you use chemical weapons, the gas is heavier than air so goes to the lower levels. that's why you always find that the most casualties during chemical weapons attacks are basically women and children because we usually keep the lower basement and send the lower levels for women ...

>> that was kassem eid. you know, hearing these words at the white house, maybe military action, how does that ring for syrians who are meeting there, ben? >> well, for the syrians, obviously they are desperate for some sort of help. that is, those syrians who do not support the regime of bashar and assad or don't support some of the more extremist factions within syria. what we're hearing from the turks, however, is quite a reaction to the possibility of intervention. in fact, the turkish president erdogan just today said if there is an intervention in syria, it should be more than just words...

Were castaway as dead until you moved, i just thank you so much for your bravery and your strength and your words. thank you. kassem eid, thank you so much. wow. let me just bring in harvard ambassador from 2001 to 2005 and also advised hillary clinton's presidential campaign. mr. ambassador, wow. i just didn't even want to jump in and interrupt him because his harrowing tale of suffering burns, living through that chemical attack in 2013, what did you make of that conversation? >> you know, brooke, like you, i thought it was a very powerful statement and i hope president trump was listening...

Street journal" in "the washington post" and foreign policy, think tanks and universities like harvard and yale. i was all over the country. i left the united states last year out of frustration, out of disappointment, not because of travel ban, not because of anything. syrians didn't rebel to leave syria. we rebel to stay in our country. we want to stay in our country and make our country a better place for all syrians regardless of their ethnic or religious background. please help us. go after the man who created all of this mess. it's bashar al assad. don't make the same mistake president o...