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Question worth exploring down a little on because my sense is that there were two different perspectives on this. one was, well, we can't do anything until we get the word from the white house to do something. and the white house, as was already mentioned, was preoccupied on other things. and then caught up and said why haven't you done this? and i think it's a lack of understanding given the preparation that we already knew should have been in place that no one really appreciated, we really do have to get these things set up and ready to go. like anything you don't just snap your finger and i...

Trump, campaigned on this all the time that he was going to be a nonconventionalist. is this a shift that we're seeing where donald trump is becoming more of a traditional republican hawk? >> reporter: yeah, i think based on our reporting, the president campaigned on his america first foreign policy. that said, i think those outside the administration might want to see more points of evidence before connecting those dots. in this particular situation, as you heard courtney talk about, this is something that apparently, at least according to reporting as it stands now, was a decision that could...

Obviously he did. >> did we get any clarity from the white house whether russia was complicit in the chemical weapons attack? >> reporter: the white house is saying there is no consensus that russia knew ahead of the attack, but what they were clear on is that russia essentially tried to cover up for syria, they tried to cover up for al assad and for his cruelty, so they're beginning to put pressure on russia to warn russia that you are basically in bed with the wrong partner on this. it was interesting to see one administration official lean a little bit further into this today to say it is a...

You are confronted with those horrific pictures of chemical attacks on civilian and you, as the president of the united states, have the ability to do something about it, obviously he did. >> did we get any further clarity from the white house today as to whether or not russia was, in fact, complicit in the chemical weapons attack? >> reporter: we did not get a good answer on that. the administration is basically saying there was no consensus within the intelligence community that russia knew ahead of time about this attack or what their role was in it. but what they were clear on is that russ...

Won't fight isis. and at the same time, allow some kind of way forward here for sunni to at least begin to put back the building blocks in that region. radicalization is not in europe or our interest either. >> we're just getting word from our senior white house correspondent from jeff zeleny. he had a briefing at the white house. senior administration official telling him and i'm quoting this official now, i think it's clear the russians are trying to cover up what happened there. we do think that it is a question worth asking the russians the plan prepared and carried out this chemical weapo...