-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com topping this hour of 360, new reporting on a story cnn first broke. tonight white house reaction and their timeline of who said what to whom. also this hour, two former top fbi officials weigh in. so will carl bernstein. but first the very latest from jim sciutto. >> reporter: tonight the white house vehemently defending, asking the fbi to deny reports of communications between trump campaign associates and russians known to u.s. intelligence. the administration's intense push back follows cnn's exclusive reporting of the white

house request. senior administration officials insisting it only asked for the denial after a top fbi official himself volunteered that the "new york times" story on those communications was inaccurate. white house officials who asked not to be named today outlined their timeline of events, saying the conversation happened on february 15th, after a 7:30 a.m. meeting led by white house chief of staff reince priebus. fbi deputy director andrew mccabe asked priebus for five minutes alone after the meeting ends. this according to senior administration officials and calls a report linking trump campaign advisers to russian advisers total b.s. he asks whether we can do anything about it and whether there is anything the fbi can do to set the record straight. later in separate conversations, mccabe and comey say the fbi cannot comment on the report.

then priebus asks if he can cite them as top officials in pushing back on the story himself, which he did. >> i've talked to the top levels of the intelligence community, and they've assured me that that "new york times" story was grossly overstated and inaccurate and totally wrong. >> reporter: the direct communication between the white house and fbi were unusual, because of decade-old restrictions on such contacts concerning pending investigations. >> you don't want anyone, the appearance, political influence with respect to investigation or prosecution. >> reporter: mr. trump also criticized 9 fbi directly, tweeting today, the fbi is totally unable to stop the national security leakers that have permeated our government for a long time. they can't even find the leakers from within the fbi itself. classified information is being given to media that could have a

devastating effect on u.s. find now. >> what are you learning? >> reporter: on the broader issue of communications between trump advisers during the campaign and other russians none to ouu.s. intelligence, the whi house is not denying that such communications took place. and we know the fbi is investigating those communications. in addition to that, both the senate and house intelligence committees, keep in mind, both led by republicans, they still investigate e investigating those communications. so reince priebus seems to be saying there's nothing to these stories, but the fbi and the senate and house committees are still investigating. >> what he is pointing to is "new york times" reporting which is different than cnn reporting. >> reporter: the white house seem to be zeroing in on this detail.

the "new york times" reported these were with quote-unquote russian intelligence. our reportings is that it was with russians known to u.s. intelligence, diplomat, et cetera, and the fbi and house and senate committees are still trying to establish what those connections are. they haven't limited them, but they haven't established it. and it appears to be that detail the white house is zeroing in on. >> one other quick note on reaction inside the white house. this is being seen as a quote distraction the president doesn't need right now, end quote. back with us, john pistol who's now president of anderson university. phil mudd, and carl bernstein. john, direct conversations between the white house and the fbi over an ongoing investigation, it's certainly

understandable why reince priebus would want the fbi to knock down a story that the deputy director of the fbi has told him is total b.s. do you see this as unusual? >> well, it's unusual in the aspect of having a chief of staff ask for the fbi to get involved in some type of media campaign or something along those lines. it's not unusual, obviously, for the fbi and the department of justice to brief the white house on ongoing national security matters as a, in fact, broader policy issue. so i think the parsing might be on what was exactly said, what did the chief of staff ask deputy director, what was offered offered and then how it that played out. and i think that's where some of the information may be conflated with the ongoing investigations of did somebody in the trump campaign say or do something in terms of contacts with russian officials, whether intelligence officers or otherwise, was there some type of violation while there? or was there something improper

or did it impact national security. so it would not be proper for the fbi to comment on ongoing investigation. >> do you think the white house has sort of handled this poorly by making it almost bigger than it is? >> no, that's exactly right, anderson. i can't understand this. let me pick up on what john pistol was saying about how you parse this. it looks from the surface if you're looking from outside washington that the fbi discussed inappropriately a case with the white house. i don't believe that happened. i suspect what's happened here is somebody from the fbi, andy mccabe, whom i've worked with, he's unimpeachblinable. he might have said we saw that article, we weren't responsible for that leak, and we don't think the article's accurate. that's not a conversation about an ongoing investigation. that's a reassurance from one from the fbi who wants to dekee

working with the department of justice. the story is now why the white house made this into a multi-day problem instead of a one-day, page 13 interesting story. it's interesting why the white house is stepping back, trying to stamp down a story that people on the inside would say doesn't merit this kind of consideration. it's almost like the rollout in immigration. people who are dealing with national security and who have not dealt with that much before are trying to realize what it's like to interact with the fbi and cis cia and think have not that yet. >> first of all, it's inappropriate. if president obama had done that, if his chief of staff had done it, there would be a call for investigation and possible impeachment. but more important, this is diversionary noise by president trump, by his chief of staff. we are looking at a white house, a president who just lost his national security adviser in the first days of his administration

for lying to the vice president of the united states about his talks in secret with the russians. this is a huge story. the subject of investigations on capitol hill, by journalists. this is not going away. we need to find out what happened and the president of the united states and the people around him, they know that there is a determination, not just by the press, but by republicans in congress as well as democrats, to find out what the hell happened here during the campaign with the russians, were there contacts? what were the contacts between the trump organization, if there were or people from around that part of the world and more important than that, it goes back to donald trump's business interests in that part of the world. all of this is now open for a can of worms of investigation, and that's what's got the white house so ex-orcised. >> when you hear them talking about the fbi, that they can't

stop leaks, they can't stop leaks from within the agency. is that constructive? >> it gets to the heart of the issue of what is a leak, or is it commenting on ongoing publications as opposed to ongoing investigations or ongoing articles. news reporting. so i think it's a question of whether the president is making something constructive or is it just something that is more noise from the issues that have been articulated. >> you said you've dealt with leaks before, you don't wheconsr this as a leak of classified information to those who are not authorized to have it. >> what you've seen a conversation over a couple of days that talks about white house interactions with the fbi. you tell me.

what national security issue was revealed? what did the russians or chinese learn about that could have affected national security? it's embarrassing for the white house. i don't consider that a leak. what's a leak to me is something about a military operation or a ci cia operation against terrorists. i remember one 12, 14 years ago, we were closing in from taking down an overseas terrorist, an al qaeda guy. he was unknown to america. someone leaked that to a major american newspaper and think were beginning to do a profile not only on that terrorist but what we were doing. if that story had run, that terrorist would have seen it and have gone underground. we went to that newspaper and i said this is what we know, this is how we're going to take him down, and if you publish this and the guy stays alive, he's going to kill people. that's a leak. >> can i ask what the paper did?

>> they stopped publishing. they told us, we will stop publishing if you give us the story first. >> what president trump had to say about the press, not flattering, no surprise, in addition to this. >> and i love the first amendment. nobody loves it better than me. nobody.

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♪ ♪ (crowd cheers) ♪ well, president trump did today what many presidents do, but rarely in public. he launched another attack at the media. he couched it in the claim that he's not condemning the entire profession. >> i am only against the fake news media or press. fake. fake. they have to use that word. i am against the people that make up stories and make up sources. they shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use

somebody's name. let their name be put out there. let their name be put out. >> all that said as we reported in our last hour, mr. trump himself has cited unknown sources in the past when it suited him. he has phoned up places using fake names. joining us, robert reich, the author of "saving capitalism." jeffrey lord, and, well, you know ron reagan. how do you square president trump slamming the press for using unnamed sources where in the campaign he has been the sources, and then saying he love the the first amendment.

nobl lov nobody loves it better than me. >> i think he does love it. nobody uses it more than he. you played the absolute correct truth of what he said about the american media. the "new york times" today along with cnn failed a ban fr-- facea ban from the white house. i want to hold this up from february 17th. trump calls the news media at enemy of the american people as the head heine. and that is the essence of the first sentence. and then eventually, they get around to the tweet which says the fake news, and he put it is in caps, the fake news failing "new york times," cnn, nbc news and many more, closed parenthesis is not my enemy. it is the enemy of the american people. in other words, this sorry frto

the "new york times" is fake news, because he is saying fake news might ye news media, what they did was take it out there. you did it correctly. >> but he's saying -- >> -- what's wrong with the media. >> but he's saying "new york times," cnn are all fake. >> what he's saying is that they are publishing fake stories. this story is clearly fake. you've got the whole yes, ma'am po -- import of the story. only when you scroll down. where he says fake news. >> he's labeling some of the most mainstream sources of news fake news media. >> clearly, anderson, we have a president who does not want to be criticized. he doesn't like the media exposing anything or talking back to him or arguing with him

on holding him accountable for anything that he's saying. he has repeatedly singled out the "new york times" and cnn and a few others for propagating fake news without being specific about what they're doing except that they are holding him accountable. and he did say in that clearly that they are the enemy of the american people, i've never heard a president say anything hike that. today he went on and on at the conservative political action conference. again, attacking the media, attacking the "new york times," attacking cnn and several others, and then sean spicer had an informal press briefing, but they kept the "new york times" and cnn and a couple of other so-called unfriendly news outlets outside the white house and outside the pressroom. that's the first time i've heard anything like that. >> what do you think the strategy is, to distract from the russia stories and to is he

t -- set the stage for any future stories saying that the people reporting them are just fake? >> i think that's exactly it, in undermining the credibility of the media that dislikes, or in trump's view, dislikes trump or is criticizing trump, and therefore, the president keeps on saying, don't pay attention to, don't believe these media. they are propagating so-called fake news. and so, as the "new york times" and cnn and a couple other outlets p outlets presumably some, maybe, maybe, some russian connection, he can turn&a around and say that's fake news. this is partly ego. it is clear that this is a man who is hugely narcissistic and doesn't like anybody and any news agency to be in any way critical of him, but he goes beyond that. i think there's some strategic basis for what he's doing.

>> jeff? >> anderson, all the way back in 1964, and i will not mention the r word, barry goldwater was about to be nominated for president in san francisco. and cbs ran a story, and my source is barry goldwater's auto biography. that when the convention was over was going to go to hitler's old playground in germany to address a neo-nazi group. there was not a shred of truth to it. it was reported by dan shore of cbs news. years later, barry goldwater was still mad about this. think didn't even have the term fake news in 1964. this kind of thing has been done over and over and over again to conservative republicans. so when you hear president trump say this to cpac, the people at cpac get it. this is gospel to these folks [ speaking simultaneously ]

>> with due respect, that is utterly ridiculous. we have a president here tell egg bitelling big lies over and over again. he went over about how many people voted for him, you've never seen anything like it, when the mandate, his electoral college mandate is one of the smallest in history. >> he won! that's a mandate! >> and secondly, he lost the popular vote by almost a record number. almost 3 million people. and yet he lies over and over again. there is no end of his lies. and on top of that, he is accusing the media that criticize him of being fake news. that combination of telling big lies and accusing the media of being fake news outlets is the kind of strategy that dictators and tyrants have used. >> i got to wrap this up. >> why did he ban cbs from his

briefing? >> i'm not going to talk about the size of anybody's mandate anymore. appreciate it. coming up, more on president trump's tweet rant directed at the fbi this time, saying the bureau was totally unable to stop the bureau's leakers. is that the issue? we'll dig deeper on that next. new age perfect rosy tone from l'oreal paris. and we're still worth it. my insurance rates are but dad, you've got... ...allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. it's good to be in, good hands. ththen out of nowhere...crying. third time that day. i wasn't even sad. first the stroke, now this. so we asked my doctor. he told us about pseudobulbar affect, or pba. it's frequent, uncontrollable crying or laughing that doesn't match how you feel.

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democrats in congress are calling it a breach of the fbi's independence. they are speaking about the white house calling for the fbi to knock down stories. and reaction has been coming in ever since from capitol hill and beyond. joining us, david axelrod and john king. >> david, your argument, which you posted on twitter earlier is that if president obama's chief of staff had called the fbi to knock down a story on an ongoing probe of the president's allies, congress would have raised hell. is it that simple? now they say it was the deputy director who asked to talk to reince priebus about this and

that's how it got started. >> this wasn't a casual conversation. this was a conversation about an ongoing investigation, coverage of an ongoing investigation. how often does the fbi say we don't comment on ongoing investigations? and it appears that, i dons know wh what the genesis of the conversation was but it appears that the chief of staff was trying to enlist the fbi knocking down a story about an ongoing investigation involving the president and his allies during the campaign, and that seems to me to be a very troubling area, and i do believe that had it been another administration, had there been a democratic president, this republican congress would be well down the road on hearings having seen this story. >> john, you also hear trump critics invoking republican outrage over the issue of bill clinton with loretta lynch on the plane.

why aren't they outraged now? it's not exactly apples to apples. >> and congress is out of town this week. we'll see what happens when they come back next week. maybe at weekend town halls. during the campaign, they said it was inappropriate that bill clinton was trying to influence the investigation when he had an inappropriate conversation with the attorney general. the president of the united states should never have gone to th that plane. republicans have said clintons think they have their own rules. whether it's that conversation with loretta lynch or setting of a private e-mail server. now reince priebus is at the same situation. the chief of staff's job is to say whoa, the white house counsel's office is down the hall. take it up with the counsel, not with me.

i'm the political gatekeeper, not the person who should be involved in that conversation. >> president trump tweeted today, said the fbi's totally unable to stop the national security leakers who have have on u.s., find now. not only is it his prerogative, but the obama administration was very aggressive in prosecuting leakers, why shouldn't he be as well. . >> if there are leaks that gener jeopardize national security or operations in the field, that is true. i'm not sure the chief of staff calling the fbi calling to quash stories classifies as a classified matter or national security. we have seen since the president took office a systematic effort

to impeach all kinds of institutions. whether it's the courts, whether it's the news media, or in this case, the fbi, when he sees stories that displease him. and it is, you know, this very same organization, the fbi, the intelligence community, that he's regularly impugned are organizations that he as president is going to have to rely on to actually keep america safe. and if he starts impeaching the credibility of these organizations, what happens when he turns around and bases decisions on the information that they've given him? so i think he ought to sit back and consider the implications of waging this multi-pronged war against all the institutions of our democracy when they displease him. >> john, you are a former white house correspondent. i want to get your thoughts about the president's comments about the first amendment today, which is the bigger issue, and it was followed later by the incident in which the "new york times," politico, cnn were

denied access to a press gaggle. >> what the president said is simply inaccurate. he says we complain that we can't criticize him for fake news. he criticizes cnn reporting that is well documented as fake news. it is not fake news, it may be a tough story. the administration doesn't like stories about him. that's a political strategy, that's okay. we need to be ducks. i covered the white house for nine and a half years. this administration is taking an age-old tactic, picking favorites within the media to a new level. there are often peaks and valleys in a relationship. it's early in this relationship. however, if they make it harder for us to do our job, we should work harder. we should make our case privately that we need access.

breitbart not the "new york times," he's limiting the skoip of his message. if he's denying cnn he's denying himself and the president a global platform. we'll just work harder. >> whose choice is it? is sean spicer the one who would do this on his on or would this have been green lit from higher up? >> the suspicion is it would come from higher up, if you listen to what the president and steve bannon have said in the last 48 hours. they've essentially declared war on the media. i agree with john completely. i don't think banning news organizations from gaggles is going to stop those news organizations from doing their jobs. if the notion is to try to mouzle coverage of the organization, i don't think they're going to be successful in that. and it's not a very strong move to insulate yourself from difficult questions.

>> it is, john, as you said, such a tried and true method of attacking the media. it just goes back. you know, it's not the first time it's happened, but certainly, this is a new level, and clearly, the trump white house believes it's an effective tactic, certainly for their base. >> it is another example of a strategic decision they've made out of the box. will it succeed in the long run? let's see in six months. this is their choice politically. we'll see how it plays out going forward. when it comes to the media, we should do our jobs, protest when we're excluded from things, but we should not be so self-important that we whine about these things. if they make it harder, do your job, stay up later. >> we're up late. just ahead at the political action conference president trump got enthusiastic response from the group he stood up a year ago. how long will the love last? we'll look at that ahead.

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as we've been talking about, president trump wrapped up his fifth week in office to a group

that he shunned just one year ago. his review at the political action conference, as the saying goes, often makes strange bedfellows. >> you finally have a president, finally. it took you a long time. >> reporter: donald trump is hardly the champion many conservatives expected. and in most, his support was very low. the vulgar comments about women. >> grab them by the [ bleep ], do anything. >> reporter: he struggles to explain his faith. >> have you ever asked god for forgiveness? >> that's a tough question. >> reporter: he has slammed republican party cornerstones, such as broad free trade deals and on abortion rights here's donald trump in 1999. >> i am very pro choice. i hate everything that abortion

stands for. but you still, i just believe in choice. >> reporter: that changed over the years, and after the election, he made sure his position was very clear. >> i'm pro life. the judges will be pro life. >> reporter: so aside from that last answer, what do conservatives like about him? listen to the applause lines at cpac. >> it's time for all americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. you're going to love it. we're going to repeal and replace obamacare. [cheers and applause] we are going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. [cheers and applause] i'm not representing the globe. i'm representing your country. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: those stances have drawn traditional party republicans like white house chief of staff reince priebus much closer to radical social conservatives like white house adviser steve bannon.

>> if the party and the conservative movement are together, similar to steve and i, it can't be responded. >> reporter: conservatives may yet find their faith tested if president trump strays too far from their orthodoxy, and he could find party support softening if his approval ratings continue to fall. but for right now, as they say, everyone loves a winner, and conservatives believe they are winning big. anderson? >> tom, thanks a lot. to discuss, the panel, mary catherine ham, amanda carpenter and matt lewis. how do you think it played with conservatives around the country? >> i think this is the first time i've heard something new from donald trump. what he laid out in this speech, if you take away the media critique, the bragging with his electoral prowess.

safety, sovereignty and work. it was a departure from previous presidents, previous conservative leaders who talk about the free market, often approach their role in government through a judeo christian lens, those things are gone. and this is how donald trump is remaking the gop and the presidency. >> and do you think it's a message that conservatives will buy into? >> well, as long as it works for them. i think a lot of people -- listen, everyone in that room was excited to hear from the president. they're excited republicans won. but they expect him to deliver. i really think he has until august to start delivering on obamacare repeal and reform. if they can come back next year and say here's all we achieved together and everyone has something to celebrate, of course he's going to be a successful president. >> mary catherine, what do you think? >> i think a man is wise in putting forward the principles.

and conservatives themselves, they go rah, rah, but the way he accomplishes those things, whether it's economic nationalism and a little more protectionist party, those things don't fall in with the conservative orthodoxy we've known from the past. and some people, myself included, are won considering how that -- wondering how that's going to play out. and wondering how he's going to accomplish these things, if he does. >> it is a change for donald trump who, two years ago i think some folks booed him at cpac. last year he didn't attend. he said today he didn't show up because he was too controversial. that's not what his campaign said, they said it was a scheduling conflict. but it made it all the more interesting to see him up there today and the degree to which at least in the room, he's won over conservative skeptics. >> oh, yeah.

absolutely. i think we could divide conservatives into three groups. there's a small group part of a resistance. then there's a second category of people who let's go along with trump and see what we can get. maybe we can get a good supreme court pick, tax reform. and then there's the larger group, which are the rank and file conservatives and grassroots conservatives, and i think they have bought in on trumpism. you know, kellyanne conway yesterday said it wasn't going to be cpac. it's going to be tpac. they will tailor their message for that meeting, just like if you're speaking to a labor union, you might talk about jobs and the populist approach. if you're talking to a group of conservatives, normally, you might talk about ronald reagan or edmond burke or defending the right to life or free trade. donald trump didn't do that.

he did not tailor his message. he came there, he attacked the press. he did sort of nationalistic demagoguery. and the audience ate it up. and they were applauding him for criticizing free trade, at a conservative conference. >> amanda, as you said, it's similar to what we heard from steve bannion yesterday. dismantling structures of the state, not particularly-expressed themes at a. >> reporter:tive conservative rally. >> what is different is how steve bannon phrases it. they have a hard edge in the way they speak about things. can they make it work? can they deliver? because if republicans, they may not like this talk, especially, you know, people would be very skeptical brief yausly of someone who would have stood up at a republican conference and

said we are now the workers party, but if trump can make that work, if he can push policies that do benefit the american worker, that do get the economy going, i don't see what republicans will have to quibble with down the road. >> how much of this is a trump doctrine? how much of it is a bannon doctrine or is that a distinction at this point? >> i think they might be one and the same for the most part. what i think is interesting about cpac, for someone like me who believes in conservative values, who was born in 1973 when conservatism was in the wilderness. and i feel like this cpac felt like to me, a little bit like being in the wilderness against. many of the messages are not what i was fighting for at cpac. that might make me in the minority in the room.

but there is part of this where they do rub up against each other, and this is the conservative pac, cpac. not tpac just yet officially. so it's a little bit of an identity crisis, even though people are, granted having a lot of fun sort of being on top of the heap right now. >> we've got to go. appreciate all of you. thanks so much. >> thank you. up next, one piece of the puzzle in an international murder mystery snaps into place. what we now know, coming up. so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. he said humira is for people like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened;

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authorities have identified the chemical substance that killed north korean leader kim jung un's brother. disturbing murder mystery with air of international intrigue. details. >> reporter: some of the last moments of kim jong-nam's life. approached airport security to claim that someone grabbed his face and he's feeling dizzy. escorted to the medical clinic. photograph of him slumped over, apparently unconscious. dies before reaching the hospital. in a twist that reads like the script of a hollywood thriller, malaysian authorities confirm that the half brother of the north korean dictator was killed by vx, a banned nerve agent that can kill in minutes. >> if you get any of it on you

you're dead, nothing a doctor can do for you. just die, microscopic dot on you and you die. >> reporter: south korea is pointing to the northern state and leader is the main suspect. dramatic assassination in broad daylight moments after entered a crowded check-in hall. two women who can just be made out here wiped kim's face with some kind of liquid. one of the women walking off wearing a bizarrely eye catching lol t-shirt. 2 suspects now in custody. and gets more surreal. one of the women told police she believed she was participating in a prank for a tv show, a claim malaysian officials dismissed. >> these two ladies were trained

to swab the deceased face and after that instructed to clean their hands. and they know it is toxic. >> reporter: the hunt is now on for these four north korean suspects who left the country the day of the attack. among them a senior official with korean embat bassy in kuala lumpur. in another bizarre twist, somebody tried to break into the mortuary where the body is kept. >> we know who they are. no need to tell you. >> reporter: why would the leader want half brother dead? more concern is how the dangerous dictator got his hands on one of the most deadly chemical weapons in the world and what else he can do with it. >> it's nerve agent that terrified intelligence agencies in the west for a long time because it's so lethal.

saddam hussein was accused of having it. in fact he didn't. couldn't figure out how to weaponize it. but they have figured out how to weaponize it and dlir it. would he use it in south korea or united states? no way to know. >> what is the pentagon saying about this? >> that should come to no surprise to anyone that north korea would engage in assassination practices is the word they use. at the same time not confirming use of vx. it's hard to believe this is not of grave concern to u.s. officials. fact is this happened in broad daylight in major international airport. if the vx had been more widely dispersed many more people could have been killed, among them potentially americans. >> thanks. more on the deadly chemical

substance, dr. sanjay gupta. what is it and how does it work? >> it's called vx and best way to think about it, a very powerful pestis i'd. what they do to pests, doing to humans. muscles are constantly firing and relaxing. happening all the time. your muscles doing it right now, mine as well. this turns off the off switch so muscles just firing all the time. start to really contract and eventually get tired. that's ultimately what can lead to death. someone may stop breathing as result of this. >> how does it differ from nerve gasses like sarin and how close do you have to be? >> sarin is the one people hear about. been attacks over the years. that's more of a gas. something people will often

release, disperse and can affect a lot of people. vx can affect a lot of people as well but not typically a gas. almost the consistency of motor oil. harder to turn into a gas. something that typically comes in contact with somebody's skin. typically what happens with vx. can be used in the water supply or food as well to be ingested. typically just a small amount on the skin that can serve to cause all these symptoms. >> chances of survival if you're exposed? antidote if gotten to hospital and knew what it was? could they have saved him? >> it works very fast so likely -- it's very toxic stuff. and anderson, have covered conflicts and there's concerns about chemical weapons, we're often given a vial of atropine as antidote and if there's any concern at all, you go ahead and give the antidote.

you have very little time or no time. with vx, can get a lethal dose in just a drop. gives you idea. and the people who are handling it, moving it around, they're at risk. people who may have cared for this gentleman, they're at risk. if they don't know what they're dealing with and come in contact with the gas, could become poisoned as result. part of the reason it's banned and reason people don't use it often, it's dangerous for everyone involved. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. with antioxidant rich goji berry and pomegranate, it strengthens skin's moisture barrier. ...to keep hydration where it belongs, in my skin. new moisture bomb. garnier skinactive. say goodbye to extra taxes and fees on your wireless bill and hello to t-mobile one. right now, get 2 lines of unlimited data for $100 bucks taxes and fees included. 2 lines, $100 dollars. all in, all unlimited.

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