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Continues to attack his own citizens. here's nikki haley. >> cynical accusations of bad faith from russia will not stop us from speaking out. and they're blatantly false narratives will not keep us from telling the world about russia's central role in bombing the serial people in to submission. >> the problems of this relationship go beyond syria and go beyond the u.k. nerve agent attack. the u.s. and russia are at odds over the ukraine and russian intervention there and russian interference in elections around the country. rex tillerson told us a month ago that there were already signs that r...

Weather in chicago, maybe. i circle back to the conversation that the president had with vladamir putin last week where he has been strongly criticized by some for congratulations him on the election win there and not bringing up this recent nerve agent attack and not bringing up really important issues while on the phone with vladamir putin. what would his strategy have been there? >> what matters is actions and the president can congratulate vladamir putin, i wish he didn't, but to expel the most diplomats, i think in history, but the last 30 years and to coordinate with our allies sense a s...

Western countries this is a price that putin is going to have to pay, possibly it will deter him from doing something likes this again, exposing civilians to a nerve agent attack in the future. >> are they looking at this as a change, the white house says this is proof positive that we're not soft on russia, the president himself, of course, just had that friendly conversation with putin congratulating him on the election, offering to meet, can the white house sell that position, that look what we're doing, look at the cooperation we're showing, look at how tough we are, we're not soft on russ...

>> not to the best of my knowledge. >> should they be? >> i think they should. it is a serious matter. i know we are. >> how will that -- how will we know the truth of that? how will we get to the bottom of that? >> we will get to the bottom of it because we will figure out who that was and who hired them. although i'm fairly clear as to who hired them? >> again, that is? >> it is fairly obvious. it has to come with someone associated with the trump organization. >> michael avenatti, thank you very much for. we will continue to talk to you and see where this develops. >> thanks for having me. ...

Retaliate, the u.s. could well respond again, either in similar fashion or in some other way, john. >> michelle kosinski for us at the state department. michelle, thank you very much. the big question now is how will the russians respond. let's go to moscow. matthew chance is there. matthew? >> reporter: john, thank you very much. well, you know, the russians will be looking at this sort of escalation in the expulsions with some concern, i expect, because it is not just the united states that have expelled 60 diplomats and intelligence workers from the united states. but it has been done, of c...