u.s. military is investigating whether russia was complicit in the syrian regime's grew he is chemical weapons attack on civilians. >> the united states took a very measured step. we're prepared to do more. >> i wish we would obey the constitution and do this the way our founding fathers intended. >> it was a legal move. >> the president has his full

command center with him. they are watching the reaction here in syria. >> there are tensions within the white house just as there are tensions within president trump himself. >> all the focus is also on russia. the secretary of state will be going there next week. that's where this goes next. good saturday morning to you. good to have you with us. i'm victor blackwell in new york. >> i'm brianna keller. >> troubling reports who may have been involved in a chemical attack that killed dozens of people including children. the u.s. is investigating whether russia knew what was happening and did not do anything to try to stop it. or potentially tried to cover it up. the kremlin is fiercely denying those accusations. the pentagon is saying it's too soon to know if the russian government played a role here. we'll go live to moscow in a moment. we're starting with breaking news out of sweden where a

deadly attack in the nation's capital could have been really so much worse. swedish media reports a bag full of explosives was found in the truck that was used to run over innocent civilians yesterday but the bomb did not properly detonate. max foster is live in stock home with the latest developments. what your learning? >> reporter: it's interesting hearing about that explosive, we've been studying this about a pack of attacks. nice, berlin, london where they use vehicles to drive into crowds. they didn't use explosives. they have in this situation. very intensify intelligence gathering operation to see if they can build a picture. let me show you the scene of the attack. because this is the main shopping road here in stockholm. it's really tight. it's pedestrianized. when this attack happened it would have been full of shoppers, full of commuters and tourists and imagine only a few people died and were injured even as tragic as that was you

look down there and you imagine could it have been so many more that actually came into that shop there on the left. that's where they stopped this truck. you can see the destruction there. you can see how sweden is trying to cope with this and trying to make sense of it. this barrier i'm in front of is turning into a makeshift memorial. people coming down, laying flowers, saying a prayer, the crown princess was just here, very emotional, could hardly speak actually and also i had a chance to speak to the deputy prime minister when she came down and laid flowers too. >> we can never protect ourselves from this type of violence with no, let's say no limits to what the perpetrator is willing to do, with no human or normal, let's say calculations. but if you're willing to sacrifice your own life and you're willing to sacrifice others completely innocent people's lives that's very

difficult to protect yourself from. >> reporter: they do have somebody in custody and think it's the driver of the truck. >> max foster with the breaking news for us there out of stockholm. mack, thanks so much. president trump's strike against syria may just be the first act. the united states is delivering a stark new warning for syria keeping a suspicious eye on russia this morning. right now the pentagon is investigating if moscow was involved in the syria chemical attack. the kremlin is staunchly denying any complicity in the attack. it's the latest wrinkle in the u.s.-russian relations that vladimir putin thought would thaw under president trump. secretary of state rex tillerson is visiting moscow next week. a russian war ship is on the move to a russian naval base in syria, a military source tells

russian state news the ship sarmd with cruise missiles. it's entering the same waters where u.s. ships launched that volley of tomahawk missiles at a syrian airbase. we have our team of correspondents tracking the latest on the aftermath on the u.s. strikes on syria. >> we begin with chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. some of the images you're about to see are graphic. >> reporter: u.s. military is investigating whether russia was complicit in the syrian regime's gruesome chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week. specifically whether a russian warplane dropped a bomb on a hospital treating victims of the attack five hours later, perhaps to destroy evidence. the probe comes after president trump ordered a barrage of missiles on a syrian airbase in retaliation for the deadly attack. the first u.s. military strike against the assad regime in the

country's bloody six year civil war. u.n. ambassador nikki haley warned of possible further u.s. military action. >> the united states took a very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. but we hope that will not be necessary. >> reporter: the target of the strikes was syria's airbase, launched point for the syrian war planes that carried out the chemical attack. the pentagon says 59 of 60 tomahawk cruise missiles severely degraded or destroyed their targets. including aircraft. hardened aircraft shelters. fuel and ammunition dumps and air defense systems. the pentagon estimates some 20 aircraft were destroyed, though video of the aftermath shows several shelters still standing and military aircraft undamaged. u.s. missiles left the runway intact and avoided chemical weapons storage to prevents

civilian casualties. and u.s. commanders warn the russian military one hour in advance to avoid accidentally striking russian military personnel or assets. still russian president vladimir putin, assad's primary backer, diplomatally and militarily immediately declared the u.s. air strikes quote an act of aggression. the quote dealt a serious blow to russia-u.s. relations. syria which says nine people were killed in the strikes claim the u.s. has undermine the fight against terrorism. >> translator: this condemnable u.s. aggression confirms the continuation of the flawed u.s. strategy and it undermines the process of combatting terrorism. it makes the u.s. a partner of the islamic state and al nusra and other terrorist organizations. >> reporter: the march to military action took little more than 48 hours. the planning began tuesday, the day the world saw the first images of victims, many of them children of the chemical weapons

attack. on thursday before president trump sat down to dinner the chinese president, he met with his national security team to discuss military options. deciding then to order the strike that night. at 8:40 p.m. eastern time in the middle of the night in syria the attack began. two u.s. war ships in the eastern mediterranean the uss porter and uss ross launched the 60 tomahawk missiles towards the syrian airbase. trump sat through dinner alongside the chinese as the attack was under way. 35 minutes later at approximately 9:15 p.m. eastern time, the president's national security team briefed him on the mission's results. >> our thanks to national security correspondent jim sciutto. let's go to athena jones. she's outside of mar-a-lago in florida where president trump is waking up this morning. athena, you know, you couldn't have helped notice that ambassador nikki haley said

we're prepared to do more. do we know what she's signalling? >> reporter: that's the big question here. what will the next steps be for the u.s. government? according to secretary of state rex tillerson who briefed reporters, a small group of reporter at mar-a-lago yesterday, next steps would depend how the syrian government responds. he said the future will be guided how we see their reaction. he said the u.s. is monitoring the syrian response, whether they try to attack u.s. forces or coalition forces. whether they attack the syrians may be considering launching another chemical weapons attack. thursday's strike were targeted to degrade syria's ability to carry out these attacks but didn't completely destroy. military strikes avoided that area on the airbase where they believe the nerve agent was being stored.

so u.s. officials are very clear on the fact that syria still has the ability to carry out these attacks. the question is will they. if they do it seems that ambassador haley is hint field goal they don't carry out these chemical weapons attacks that the u.s. may have another similar response. but it's important to caution here a senior administration official told cnn that on friday the strike shouldn't be interpreted as the beginning of a wider campaign to weaken or remove assad. it's really in tree lie ages specifically for those chemical weapons attacks and to send the message that that will not be tolerated. so if that's the message they are trying to send it hints if the syrians take a similar step that they could see a similar response from the u.s. >> athena jones in mar-a-lago, outside of mar-a-lago i should say. thank you very much. let's go to paula newton live in moscow. paula, what is the kremlin saying about the u.s. investigation now into the

possibility that russia either knew that this was going to happen or they took some steps to cover it up? >> reporter: victor, look we got four words. this is not true. that was from the kremlin's spokesperson. this obviously is what russia said. they vehemently deny they had anything to do with it. they stayed the united states in haste went through with these air strikes before proving anything. russia is contending it was the rebels who were responsible for that attack because they had a chemical making facility very close to that location. having said that, though, it's been breathtaking in terms of how things have changed here on the ground in russia in the last few days since that chemical attack. we're having more russian reaction when they look forward to that visit of rex tillerson next week. very influential politician here is pushing back to what mr. tillerson has been saying and he says look, tillerson, u.s. was disappointed by the russian

response. he's saying look, was he expecting anything else? he called it a startling statement with a purpose, though. it builds leverage before the visit. and that means that look russia is going in this meeting with secretary tillerson hoping that what they heard from athena jones just now comes true in those meetings. they are willing to bet that the united states will demand much more and one thing it will demand is why does syria still have chemical weapons. russia was supposed to be responsible for the fact that by 2014 that syria had gotten rid of all of its chemical weapons. >> i'm sure that will be the top of the list. let he had get to what's happening with the movement of the frigate being moved from the black sea into the mediterranean. tell us about it. why is it moving? >> reporter: so it wasn't the black sea doing maneuvers, exercises with the turkish naval forces, as soon as those air

strikes happened it was turned around. hit been in the mediterranean before. it's gone back there now as a show of force. this is what russia says it would strengthen the missile defenses in syria. now everyone has noted that they did not launch any surface-to-air missiles to try to take out those tomahawks when they came into syria. this is largely symbolic as is them suspending the air safety hotline, the one to make sure there are no collisions in the air between syrian and pardon me u.s. and russian aircraft. having said that this is a show of force that's been going on for a year and a half now. when the united states vacated that space nato called at any time largest deployment of the russian military in decades. they are there in the mediterranean in syria and continue to flex those military muscles and it will be something that mr. tillerson will be reminded of when he's here next week. >> we'll talk more about this

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look at this tweet from ann coulter. she tweeted those of us who wanted us to meddle in the middle east voted for other candidates. what is the president's next move and what will the shift mean for the president moving forward. joining us now we have john mccormick a writer at the weekly standard and erol lewis. erol i want to start with you. what's the significance here? let's start with some of the conservatives, some of the populist like nigel who was miffed by this decision. >> it means they like many of the president's critics now realize that what he said of not necessarily what he meant. you know, when he campaigned on a policy of staying out of these kind of entanglements in the middle east, not committing troops willy-nilly, calling hillary clinton a war monger he built a certain amount of political support. but donald trump always said that he'll do what he thinks is

best, he won't telegraph his intentions and that sort of usually was put in the context of i'll keep my wren miss off balance. politically there will be some kind of small price to pay. where will ann coulter go now? >> awesome she wrote. does this rise to the level of questioning conviction here, when the president said that we will not be the policeman of the world, that i am representing the united states and not the world and then we see this shift. does this lead some of those die-hard supporters to question on what they can trust and where they can trust this president especially as it relates to foreign involvement? >> you know, one thing about donald trump is that his ideology has never been that fixed. avenues liberal democrat in the late 1990s. he became a populist nationalist

during this campaign. now as we're just seeing events can change his mind. he's easily swayed. someone said persuaded. this shows people are judging this specific incident not through partisan lines but whether they think this is right or wrong. even senate democrats largely are supportive of president trump right now. if you asked me two weeks ago is there anything chuck schumer would praise donald trump about i would say no way. yesterday he called at any time right thing to do. i spoke to democrats on capitol hill. they thought this was well within the president's authority. i thought the democrats would have criticized this as another illegal republican war in the middle east. so it is really a surprising moment here. >> if it's a one off, and the white house is suggesting that this is not leading to some larger strategy but if this is a one off for one singular act does this criticism fade? >> yes i definitely think so. again this is a complicated

situation where we could see escalation. if we get entangled more deeply you might see people breaking away, some former critics coming to trump support. we'll have to see how it shakes out in terms of further violation. >> i see you nodding. >> just to pick up on that a little bit, victor. you put your finger on it. the president is not just the leader of this government he's the leader of the free world. there's a lot of people outside of the political process who need to know there's going some consistency. just not other nations also the refugees themselves. the syrian free army. the opposition that's trying to figure out what to do about assad. they need stability, reliability, policy line that they can sort of expect the united states to do certain things around and so when president trump says it's in his best i want to be be unpredictable there's tremendous negative consequences for a whole range of people not just american politicians but people who are suffering and whose lives are on the line.

>> beforethe chemicalattackwe heard from the secretary of state, the u.n. ambassador that essentially the u.s. was okay with assad being in power, that they were going as nikki haley say sit here and focus on getting assad out. after the attack we heard from the secretary of state that there were moments under way to remove him. last night the white house would not say whether or not they were trying to remove assad. why can't they get on one page here? >> there will be another round of statements when rex tillerson is expected to be on the sunday shows tomorrow. it's what you get when you hear people say we need a policy. we need some consistency. during the campaign trump was criticized as a chaos candidate. they sort of poo-pooed that. it was the establishment. you brought us a mess. we go in and do things entirely different. this is what entirely different looks like. you have no idea where they are coming from. i'll add one more wrinkle to it.

you got human rights policy. if this was a humanitarian intervention, however military it may have seemed from the outside, well when do you launch missiles? over 1400 people died because of chemical weapons just a few years ago. trump was very critical of the u.p.s. for considering military action. when and where and why do we intervene for humanitarian reasons. also unclear. >> john the president sees this as a feather in his cap. he called it flex little bit. flexibility he was proud of in the ross garden a couple of days ago. i want you to nail down on this points. at what point does flexibility become a little bit more inconsistency? >> well, listen as i said i think the president versus candidate and as a president is going all over the place. he in his own administration, he has his son-in-law jared kushner, a democrat. he has steve bannon a nationalist. he has mike pence a staunch

conservative. so i think this is a president who given the issue, given who he's listening, to he's going to come down from a different ideological perspective on any given day, any given week. it does question in this particular instance how much more involved do we get because this really is -- listen whether it's president obama or president trump this is a thorny issue. you have bashar al assad, a murderous dictator on one side. islamist terrorist groups throughout the country. there really is to be comprehensive strategy to make sure, a u.s. stalemate that could bring the humanitarian disaster, sort of stem the flow of refugee crisis. that would be a success compared to what we've seen in the last six years. >> thank you both. next a syrian refugee narrowly survived a 2013 chemical attack is praising the

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welcome back. i'm brianna keller in washington for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell in new york. here are questions that officials in the u.s. are trying to answer. was russia involved in the chemical attack there in syria. a u.s. military official tells cnn the pentagon is examining whether a russian airplane bombed a hospital five hours after the chemical attack aiming to destroy evidence. now that attack tuesday killed at least 80 people n-jurisdiction dozens more. these are the images of the aftermath that prompted

president trump to act. russian president, vladimir putin, blasted the decision to strike the assad regime as an act of regression saying the move dealt a serious blow to u.s.-russian relations. this comes after president putin initially denied a chemical attack even happened in syria. u.n. ambassador nicky hail jay said the u.s. is prepared to do more but hoping it won't have to. richard blumenthal said russia used the attack to test the united states. >> i think there's mounting evidence that they were complicit in one way or another, that they knew about it, russian did at some level knew about it and they should be held accountable. russia is testing us through violation of the imf treaty involving cruise missiles, other steps that have been taken are ongoing. >> the former activist and rebel fighter barely sfiefld what remains the largest chemical attack of the syrian war the one

back in august of 2013. not even four years later he's seen this happen all over again and he says that he was overwhelmed by the u.s. mist strike on the assad regime. >> i saw the news. i cried out of joy. i thank god. i don't know. i was overwhelmed. we've been asking for protection. we've been asking for consequences for more than six years. and today for the first time it happened. for the very first time we see assad held accountable just for once. >> i want to bring in the president of the syrian-american council. give us a sense how syrians are responding to this and some of the expectations we just heard there from that rebel fighter that he was overwhelmed, finally something is being done.

but is there a sense that, you know, it's unclear what is going to continue to be done here? >> good morning, ma'am. and i knew him personally and when he was in usa we were together advocating in d.c. for a no-fly zone. i know him well. i'm glad he's safe now. i was very happy that president trump did what he did. we were very happy. we were very grateful that finally somebody took, stood up to this tyrant, assad. what president trump did in two days, obama couldn't do in six years. you know, this happened before and he was the victim of the 2013 attack, the chemical attack and obama drew a red line in the sand and nothing happened. and that's why it's getting worse and worse every day because nobody stood up to the tyrant. and we are very grateful on

behalf of the syrian-american community. we appreciate the leadership that president trump took in this horrific attack. and as we said, that no child of god should go through this and he's absolutely right. the scenes we've seen on tv with the babies, it's just absolutely heartbreaking. >> no doubt they are heartbreaking and i think that's something, again, that was -- people were just reminded of that of the horrific nature of this six years of civil war. i want to bring in hala gorani. you've seen myrn a's very emotional reaction there. that's something that a lot of syrians and syrian-americans are feeling as well as people around the world who are looking at these pictures. what is the expectation, though, from syrians as to what the trump administration is going to do from here rather than this just being an isolated attack on

the syrian regime? >> reporter: first of all, you are asking me there are two sets of reactions in the region. because what syria has become be essentially is a proxy war between two main blocs, the iran-hezbollah, the group here in lebanon, russia against those sunni countries like turkey and saudi arabia and others those are the rebel groups more supported by those countries opinion as for the expectations, this is a one off essentially is the question or is this opening the door to wider military intervention by the united states? i think that after a day and a half now of digesting this significant event the expectations are lower. united states want to send a deterrent message to the assad regime. stop using chemical weapons.

you do it again we'll do something else. but the vast majority of those killed in syria are killed with conventional weapons. this has been going on for six years. we're talking about 400,000 deaths and a couple of thousand only attributed to chemical attacks. will the urns intervene in those. the expectation is that is not the intention of the trump administration. so i don't think that many people here whether they support the strike or not support the strike believe this will change, really, the fundamental calculus of this conflict unless there's more military intervention or diplomatic pressure put on warring parties. >> myrna, what is your reaction to that this idea that the expectation of more attacks like this is being downgraded a little bit, especially as you said you agree with that statement that a child of god should not be killed in a

chemical weapons attack. but hala points out so many syrians have been killed through conventional means and not to mention barrel bombs as we've seen over and over. >> yes, ma'am. well the statement from president trump made a statement calling on the civilized world to come together and stop this and remove assad. what we would like to see actually is ground air force that assad has, that's where the massive killing is happening. the massive killing is happening from the barrel bombs and the chemical weapons. and he mentioned during the campaign that he is for a safe zone. a safe zone is very important for the syrian civilians in syria. my father is still there and he lives in the same house that i was born in. the only reason he's staying because the heavy bombing has not started in damascus because damascus is the capital of assad. but a lot of people are leaving

because they couldn't take the bombing. and at least we can ground his air force so he cannot continue to do this and kill more people because the massive killing was happening from the barrel bombs. and the chemical weapons. then people will stay there. we'll solve two problems. no more refugees because this is also an issue because nobody wants to become a refugee. my father refuses to leave his house. he doesn't want to become a refugee. he wants to stay where he is. if we can provide them with a safe zone and enforce it then no one ill leave. >> what are the chances of that, hala? >> reporter: well, there's several issues there that are very important in relation to potentially safe zones. obviously countries like turkey have for many years supported the idea of a safe zone. in practice they are very difficult to implement. why? because you have an area where

you say if you feel unsafe, if you -- we want to create an area where civilians can be protected from air strikes and attack. who will police the safe zone from the air. who will police the safe zone from the perimeter. you need true military intervention for that to work. also the issue with safe zones and my heart breaks for your guest there. the situation very difficult. historically safe zones have proven to be an area where a certain number of people, in the case of syria would be opponents of the regime gather. they are clustered in one place. what does that make them? that makes them potentially more of a target for people who want to, you know, exact violence on them. you have many logistical issues. there's military, also humanitarian concerning safe zones. the other issue as well where do you establish these safe zones? is there infrastructure, moments, schools. how are people going to live

there day-to-day? so there are countries that support them. they technically and on paper sound like a good idea but much harder to put into practice. >> thank you so much for that insight. hala gorani. myrna, thank you so much for being with us. we're thinking of your family as we know that they are certainly under threat there. we appreciate it very much. victor? just days after hitting the airfield the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says that the country is not ruling out more strikes in syria. so what could be the next move? our military analyst is up next. surf, shop, navigate, listen, game, stream and more. all without the hassle of worrying about overages or running out of data. in fact, you'll never pay overages again. and remember, it's at&t's best, unlimited data deal ever. so get at&t, get unlimited and get everyone more for less.

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five workshops near the base there, which stored ammunition. but for some of these images raising more questions. why aren't there more evidence or is there more evidence of damage there after the dozens of missiles hit the base. and what's next here? another question. what's next for the u.s.? let's talk about this now. we have with us lieutenant general mark hurtling. good morning. let's start here with the questions about why there isn't more damage to some of those workshops. is that a problem for you or is that just pointing to the precision of this strike? >> no, it points more towards to what actually the military wanted to hit, what instructions they were given by the commander-in-chief. any time you put a strike package together like this, victor, you bring options into the person who is going to choose whether it's the military commander or the civilian commander overlooking. you can say here's what we can do, here are the kind of targets that are there, what would you like us to strike.

with the number of missiles that were going that airfield, 59 is the count says there are certain targets you can hit. there's been a lot of discussion about why didn't they crater the runway. what i'll tell you is evidently they didn't want to for whatever reason. i wasn't in the decision-making. but those kind of damages needed to be done, the military effort could have done that. it just must not have been part of the decision process. >> so they hit what they wanted to hit. they didn't hit what they chose to avoid. let me get to this investigation now by the pentagon, questioning whether russia either knew about this commemorate attack or did something to try to cover it up. they are examining this russian drone that flew over a hospital where some of the victims were being treated hours after the attack and then hours after that drone was there that hospital was bombed. i want to you listen to what senator rubio said about the russians potentially knowing this ahead of time.

>> they had to have known there was sirin gas being loaded on those planes. >> what do you make of the senator's comments? >> he's pretty forthright in his conclusion us already and that's what the investigation should show. would the -- did the airplanes actually have sirin gas loaded as bombs? don't know yet. there seems to be a lot of indicators that that is what happened when that hospital was hit. there was a chemical substance that affected so many people. the question as the russians and the syrians have said maybe this is a place where rebels were storing chemical munitions. that seems ludicrous but i think the investigation wants to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was complicit by the russians and syrians by dropping

a bomb. there are certainly indicators that some type of munition was dropped that caused this damage and it certainly looked based on the drone video that the russians were supporting this. >> what's your degree of suspicion as it relates to this russian drone that flu over the hospital a few hours after the chemical attack? >> that's an indicator of what really happened. i personally believe that the russians were complicit in this and were contributing to it and attempting to cover it up. they have been involved in multiple war crimes. i said that before on this show, bombing hospitals. arbitrarily bombing civilians. it's a method of war by both the syrian regime and russian regime in an attempt to intimidate the civilian population. that's part of the objective of this civil war by the syrians. i personally believe it's happened. again the proof will remain beyond any shadow of a doubt.

>> very quickly before we go, admiral has been moved from the black sea this russian frigate into the mediterranean. the russians are working to beef up syrian air defenses. are we on the precipice of something here or is this just a show much force? >> this is a show of force, beyond a shadow of doubt. i think the russians were caught offguard, the potential for two american war ships to fire that many cruise missiles from off the shore of lebanon into the land space of syria. so they want to make sure they are tracking those ships. it's not just the russian destroyer, there are russian and american submarines in that area tracking each other as well. this is a normal procedure. it's a show of force saying hey you may have surprised us once, you won't surprise us again but there's not a whole lot they can do about it if another strike, once they fire on u.s. war ships. >> the assets we see are often just a fraction of assets that

are there. thanks so much. >> always a pleasure. for six years now people living in syria have been dealing with the horrific violence of war. a look at what life is like for the families since the start of the fighting.

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we've talked about escalating u.s.-russian tensions over syria but with an estimated 400,000 people killed the reality of war is something that people there have been dealing with for six years. i want to show you what life is like for people in syria, but i do want to warn you, you may be disturbed by some of the images you're about to see.

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