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those videos but we have them for you and we want to forewarn you that they are graphic. if you feel you have to look away now, if you don't want to see this, please do so. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> these are the people in eastern gutta lying on the floor of this underground shelter. what you see around there appears to be foam. it's a sign of a chemical attack. this is not the first time chemical attacks have been reported in syria. >> the government has been accused of on at least three other occasions in the last six years. the syrian government, however, denies being behind this consent. >> cnn senior international k t

correspondent frederik pleitgen is there life. get us up to speed on that incident. >> reporter: all of this happened around 8:30 p.m. last night when those syrian anti-government activists say that a hospital dropped some sort of large-scale improvised explosive device they say contained that toxic gas. after that, they say many people came down with the respiratory problems. they say hundreds of people were affected and dozens of people have been killed. as you guys have been pointing out, it is very difficult to get a handle on what exactly the numbers are. however we do expect that those numbers are continuously going to rise. and you're also look like right. it's impossible to independently verify the information and videos coming out of there, but they are very, very troubling and are certainly something that is a big topic here as well.

now as far as the syrian government is concerned they deny being behind this attack. they point out this area of eastern ghouta is surrounded by military forces and making big gains against the rebels there and they say they had absolutely no reason to use these chemical weapons. all sides trading barbs on this as we have seen in the past the civilians really the ones who are suffering what is going on in syria a long period of time. when you have the use of chemicals, it makes everything all that much worse. >> frederik pleitgen, there in damasc damascus, thank you. the state kent released a statement. >> these reports, if confirmed, are horrifying and demand an immediate response by the international community.

the assad regime and its backers must be held accountable. any further attacks prevented immediately. russia, with its unwavering support of the regime, ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks. >> joining gentlemen, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. i wanted to ask you first and foremost, what is the appropriate international response to this, outside of, you know, the verbal condemnation that we are hearing? >> it would be difficult to say right now, christi, because we are dealing with the difference between the facts, which we think we know, and a narrative which is pushed by both sides. if, in fact, chemical weapons

have been used there should be a international body whether the u.n. or other nations that could go in and determine. the attacks against this group in eastern ghouta has been relentless the last few days. the report says chemical weapons but we don't know if they used this or a narrative on one side or the other. we do know that syria, supported by russia, has used chemical weapons in the past on several occasions and some say up to 200 occasions since 2013. if the abuse is used it is a war crime against the geneva convention and conference committee of 1993 and should be in international court as a war crime but we have to ascertain those facts and it will be very

difficult. it's important to note that one year ago yesterday when the united states attacks syria with 59 tom hawk whistles because of a chemical attack on april 7th, 2017. so this seems to be coincidental but we have to be careful with the narrative of the facts. >> peter, let's talk about the investigation. particularlily in the u.n. last year, russia retowed, i believe in october an tension the chemical attacks in syria are investigated. are you expecting, at this point. so early in the investigation to be more resistance from russia? most agree this agree this could not happen if it's a chemical attack with the knowledge or assistance of russia. >> leaving that question aside. the tump administration has shown it is willing to take action pretty quickly in the case of the use of a nerve

agent, more lethal than chlor e chlorine, which appears to be the gas used in this attack. according to a state department spokesman in february, the regime has used chlorine gas on six occasions just this year. the trump administration repeatedly said these are violations. international law. on monday, tomorrow, john bolton takes over as national security adviser, not somebody who is, you know, prone to taking sort of a diplomatic approach necessarily to this kind of thing. you have to ask the question who has the capacity to carry out this kind of attack? the rebels don't have air power. the accounts that we are hearing are of chlorine gas dropped from some kind of airplane or helicopter. so i suspect that the trump administration, this time, given the scale of the attack, the fact this is near the capital,

the pictures, after all, this is a president who reacts to the images and the images we are seeing coming out of here died or dead and this feels different than an attack that doesn't kill that many people, happens a long way away from the capital. so i'd anticipate perhaps some real action by the trump administration, including military action. >> let's go back to 2017 real quickly. general, you mentioned it and let's listen to what president trump had to say after what happened last year. >> a chemical attack that was so horrific in syria against innocent people, including women, small children, and even beautiful little babies, their deaths was an affront to humanity. these heinous actions by the

assad regime cannot be tolerated. >> he mentioned the assad regime there. that was one moment the president did seem really genuinely moved by what had happened. as you mentioned, there was then that military strike on the air field there afterwards. but president trump, this week, had said he is ready to pull out of syria. how does he now reconcile those two things? and do you think that what we are seeing happening here in the last 24 hours will change anything for the president? >> the somewhat schizophrenic policy not just started with this administration. there was challenges and ambiguia ambiguities in the last administration what to do about syria. it seems to be more problematic today than if we go back a week ago. because of what president trump said about wanting to pull out

as fast as possible, about the obvious kens that existed between the state department, the department of defense, the central command saying they were, in fact, increasing the number of troops in syria, and you also have to consider what has happened in russia this week with the banning of diplomats and the incident using chemical weapons to assassinate and it was known that russia did this to assassinate a foreign individual. so all of those things contribute to make this much more complex. i'm not so sure i agree with petr that this team to indicate the use of military force because there is confusion in the administration right now. you add to that, general mcmaster left yesterday and as peter said, ambassador bolton doesn't get into office tomorrow so you have a little bit of dither within the national security team driving this

action. should there a meeting today. we will see if that happens. i'm not sure if it will, given the kinds of things that this administration has done to address this issue. i'm torn between whether or not there will be military, diplomatic, economic, or any other type of action to counter this most recent violence. but you also have to recall, too, that while it's horrific what we are seeing on tv, there have been hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in this conflict over the last couple of years. it's just that this one has been by chemical weapons. >> i'm so sorry we have run out of time. peter bergen and lieutenant general mark hertling, thank you for your insights. >> thank you. a four-alarm fire at trump talker leaves six dead and a firefighter injured. update on what happened from new york city's fire commissioner next. scott pruitt is questioned about how much question pruitt's security detail is costing

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one man is dead and six firefighters are recovering this morning from injuries after a four-alarm fire broke out on the 50th floor of trump tower in new york. >> this incident prompted a response from the president, although no members of the trump family were at the tower during the fire. our affiliate wpix in new york has more for us. >> it was an automatic aalarm from an alarm company at 5:35 p.m. that aalerted the nypd that there was a fire on the 50 floor of trump talker. within five minutes the first firefighters on the scene what the fire commissioner called a

very large apartment with lots of furniture 50 stories up. >> units made their way up to the 50th floor. the apartment was virtually entirely on fire. they pushed in. heroically they were knocking down the fire and found one occupant. >> reporter: the 51-year-old male resident was later pronounced dead at st. lukes. more than 200 firefighters battled this fire with lots of smoke damaging other apartments above. president trump and his family were not in the building and the president tweeted just an hour after the fire broke out, fire at trump tower is out. very confined. well built building. fire men and women did a great job. thank you. the fire commissioner talked about how difficult it is to fight this fire. >> the units have to get there and have to hook up to a stand pipe system with their hose, takes a little longer. the fire, of course, the building is -- it contains the heat, it contains the smoke. it was extremely hot in the

apartment. >> reporter: several groups of tourists were inside trump tower walking near the trump store and shared their videos of the fire and their stories of being evacuated. >> it was a little scary. i'm not going to lie. >> we see the fire and the flames coming out. i was scared for a while. glad i got out. >> we were downstairs in the cafe. we saw one truck pull up and a gentlemen came downs and told us to evacuate and we came outside and we saw it was on fire. president trump is doubling down on his defense of his embattled epa chief. >> the president says that scott pruitt is doing a great job, despite the new questions about how much scott pruitt's unprecedented security detail is costing taxpayers. cnn's dan merica is live in washington. it seemed, dan, that secretary pruitt might have been on his way out but now the president is coming to his defense. >> reporter: good morning. it seems like a week of really bruising headlines for epa

administrator scott pruitt. these headlines have been increasingly negative over the last few days. ranging from his sweetheart deal what is called his sweetheart rental agreement with a lobbyist. the fact that he went around the white house to promote and give raises to certain epa officials. and possibly the most damaging, the fact in the cost of his 24/7 security detail which cnn has reported went to disney land to the rose bowl with the epa administrator at a cost of at least $2 million to taxpayers. we are told that security detail comes with about 19 agents, 19 vehicles, and was 24/7. president trump said, last night in a tweet, that he is dismissing that send is supporting scott pruitt. here is what he said.

this comes a few days after sarah huckabee sanders, the white house press secretary, said president trump was not okay with what is going on at the epa and the white house was looking into it. president trump often likes to zig when everyone else is zagging so while many people are talking of criticisms of scott pruitt, he seems to want to zag and back him up because he is carrying out a lot of of what president trump ran on in 2016. former trump aides and advisers have talked about the fact they support what scott pruitt is doing and he shouldn't be fired. it happened on reince priebus. this is going to continue next week to see exactly what happens. but, right now, it seems like scott pruitt hat support of his

boss, president donald trump. >> dan in washington for us, thank you. with us is writer at the washington examiner siraj hashmi and julian zeleny. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us. i want to jump off what dan was just talking about in terms of the new information this morning, the security team that consists of 19 agents, 19 vehicles. last october, cnn had already reported his security team salaries at that point cost about $2 million. no previous epa chief has ever received a 24/7 security detail. you heard president trump talking about the death threats that the epa has gotten. julian, to you, wondering if there is anything to justify this kind of security. >> well, it's hard to justify on

face value. this seems excessive. it does seem that the secretary was moving around with quite an entourage. we don't know all of the details of the threats he faced. but the reason that this is troublesome to many people, it's not the first story about officials who are operating this way, so it brings up stories of either corruption or it brings up stories of excess that are bothersome even for supporters who saw a president who promised to drain the swamp. >> julian, you're never see anything you're saying like this in terms of security detail and this kind of spending? >> not for someone heading the epa. i don't know how this compares, for example, with secretaries of defense during war times. i imagine that security detail is extraordinarily high but not in this particular instance. >> an interesting tweet here in the last several hours from representative ted liu of

california. i want to read it to you. >> right now democrats will probably just him as another example of president trump not training the swamp or delivering on his campaign promises to coax a lot of independent voters who voted for president trump in the 2016 election who are now dissatisfied and discouraged with the way things have turned out. scott pruitt has a lot of issues of his own with respect to ethical and questionable concerns that possibly deal with corruption. is there no doubt that he is hurting the conservative agenda despite rolling back unnecessary

epa regulations but these things that stand out with respect to his personal travel, his security detail, and possibly even reassigning a security agent for not using a siren in traffic during a nonemergency case, yeah, like these are all things that look bad for scott pruitt p however, he hasn't gone against president trump's agenda and that is probably the main reason why he is still on the cabinat this point. >> julian, do you think at the end of the day, scott pruitt is safe? >> i don't know if he is safe but i see the logic for the president of keeping him, meaning for all of the negatives that he brings and for all of the potential damage in the midterm elections, this is a warrior. this is someone who has been pushing aggressively on part of president trump's agenda, rolling back environmental regulations and he is someone known for this outside of the trump administration that is

very important to who the president is and there are many republicans who like this part of the trump agenda very much. so i imagine in trump's mind, he is not going to let him go easily because he actually serves not just a policy purpose, but a political purpose within the republican party. so he might go but he is not going to let go of him easily. >> siraj and julian, thank you both with being here. >> thank you. >> sure. watch "state of the union" with jake tapper. president trump's top economic adviser larry kudlow and senator susan collins will with had been his guests on cnn today at 9:00 a.m. president trump trolls d.o.j. and fbi. we will talk about that coming up.

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adviser to the trump campaign, jack kingston and former obama official, chris lieu who is also a fellow at a center in university of virginia. first, jack, i want you to hear what president trump said last year from the rose garden right after the chemical attack in syria and this was the response to his question of if he felt he had a responsibility to respond after the attack. and then right after that, you're going to hear what the president said this week about syria and u.s. involvement. >> i now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. i will tell you that. it is now my responsibility. we will be coming out of syria, like, very soon. let the other people take care of it now. very soon. very soon. we are coming out. >> jack, reconcile those two. he had a responsibility a year ago. now he wants to go. >> yeah, i think it's going to be very difficult to maintain one steady course in the middle

east and i think we have seen three presidents now struggling with it. and, you know, i know as a member of congress, i served on the armed services committee, we have this schizophrenia about it. one hand we say we have been there too long and we are spending too much money. then when you have a chemical weapons attack as we saw a year ago, the president retaliated with tomahawk missiles and bombing. whether he'll do that now right after saying we are going to withdraw, i don't know. general joe vitale says we have to stay there and be steady. it's big issue, i think, for congress to deal with as well. >> chris, to you. should congress deal with this in some authorization of use of military force? we know that back in 2013 whether a deal was struck with syria and russia to get rid of their chemical weapons and see how that ended up, umf did not

go forward. what do you make of the argument from the president that its time to go? >> well, you know, it is interesting. we are in the exact same situation we were a year ago. we had a horrifying chemical attack. the president retaliated last year. and what he has found over the last year is that the campaign rhetoric of america first of pulling out doesn't necessarily work when you're working with complicated situations like this. the announcement he made the other day that we were going to withdraw was quickly pulled back by the white house. there was a national security council meeting his military advisers told him it was a bad so he made the withdraw. i agree with jack, this is an issue vexed the last couple of presidents and it does require congressional involvement. the challenge that the trump administration has is that they can't even decide internally what the right strategy is and how best to use the leverage, whatever leverage they might

have with russia on the situation. >> to determine what the best strategy s you both pointed out, is not exclusive to the trump administration. remember back in 2013, president obama did not act on what he said was that red line that had been crossed, the movement of chemical weapons and utilization of them. listen to former secretary of state john contrary in 2014 talking about the accomplishments of the obama administration as it relates to the chemical weapons in syria. >> with respect to sayria, we struck a deal we got 100% of the weapons out. >> clearly, that is not accurate. what happened to the deal? was it naive some some way and misguided to expect that putin and assad would hold to their word and get rid of those weapons and not utilize them moving forward? >> you know, i don't blame that on secretary kerry or the obama

administration. it was a resolution they acted on in 2018 and the organization of prevention of qechemical weapons won a nobel prize for doing what john kerry did which they claimed and verified they got rid of all the chemical weapons. i think the u.n. has a lot of culpability in this and they need to step up to the plate and work for an international solution. you know, america, we have 2,000 troops on the ground. the reason we do is to maintain isis but also to work for the u.n. and support the political solution there. but as we have seen, the political solution is not moving. >> chris, to you. there was bipartisan support and praise for the president's targeted attack, actually one year ago to the day of the potential chemical talk we saw if douma yesterday. question, was it effective, considering the reported but

unverified chlorine attacks since and what we saw a few hours ago? i think a day after the attacks last year were found not to be that effective. the runways at the air base attack continued to be operational. the key is what is a proportionate response? there was one last year and there was bipartisan support for that. i think the challenge for the president right now, he has boxed himself in and says he owns the situation but announce this week he wants to pull out. figuring out what that strategy should be, how he can best send a message to the assad government and as well to the russian government he is taking this seriously will be the issue that he faces. the challenge he has is that his statement from the other day makes it very confusing for the international partners, including the united nations, to determine what united states posture is on this situation. >> quickly, and finally to you, jack. this is what sarah sanders said in june of 2017, that if assad conducts another mass murderer attack using chemical weapons

and his military will pay a heavy price. do you expect there will be in the near term military action there in syria? >> i think if it's verified that this was an action of assad and probably is verified, i think we will take some steps to retaliate as chris said in a proportional manner. i think the big challenge here is the administration, as was the obama administration, is used working off of, i guess, 2001 use of -- of military force. i would love to see congress step up to the plate and say, what is our mission? what are we doing? and then revote on this to make sure that there is consensus. right now, congress has left both administrations to kind of deal with this on their own and i don't think that is quite the appropriate response from the legislative branch of government and i'm speaking as an alumist. i think congress needs to step up to the plate and take responsibility here.

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tirade. oliver darcy is with us now. do you get the sense, oliver, that this is a tactic of both of them just trying to discredit each other? >> this is quite the remarkable war of words taking place between fox news sean hannity and regimjimmy kimmel. i think the rhetoric has gone beyond what we can repeat on television in some instances. i think jimmy kimmel is certainly enjoying this feud with sean hannity and vice versa. it doesn't start off like this. it started off with jimmy kimmel taking a jab at melania trump in a joke and sean hannity upset with that and jimmy kim seeing an opening and going after hannity in a comedy bit. let's take a look the that. >> hannity apparently took issue with a joke on the show i made on monday night and this is what he had to said about that. >> this is brutal. liberal jimmy kimmel making fun of the first lady of the united states and her involvement in

the white house easter egg roll. even her accent. jimmy, you're a despicable disgrace. take a look. >> okay. but before we take a look, i want to recap what i said. according to him is brutal and here is why i am a despicable disgrace. >> be clever and courteous just like a cat. ask lots of questions about this and that. >> about these and that. >> ask clown kimmel. mr. kimmel, that is her fifth language. how many do you speak? >> six. i speak six languages. i speak exactly one more than melania! >> so this started off, i mean, this was like an innocent joke that -- a joke that kimmel had made. hannity got upset. after that comedy bit we just watched, hannity really went nuclear on twitter at kimmel.

he tweeted, i think, at this point, dozens of things, calling kimmel a disgrace. he has referenced a decades old comedy bit that kimmel did in which it was sexual provocative in nature to call kimmel, quote, harvey weinstein jr. and kimmel for his part has gone after hannity making a number of jokes at the fox news host. both of them seem to be really enjoying this. like you said, it plays to both of their bases opinion hannbase. kimmel's audience i think particularly doesn't have much fan fare for sean hannity or fox news. it's benefiting both of them but i don't know if this will blow up any time soon because i think both camps seem to be enjoying it. >> it seemed like it took off out of almost nowhere. is there some behind the scenes,

back and forth, underlying some sort of acrimony between these two we are unaware of at this particular time? >> i'm not sure there is anything behind the scenes but can i tell you all of this is playing out really in the public sphere. if you go to their feed, you can they have been tweeting at each other all day friday. they were just going at it. they haven't done anything since friday. but i would expect that kimmel is probably going to reference this in a show on monday and hannity, for his part, said that he is willing to play video of kimmel on his program for the rest of his life until he receives some sort of apology from jimmy kimmel. >> wow. >> not letting up any time soon. >> seems like there is something deeper going on here to have that much acrimony going on. good to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you. still to come, a strong storm rolling through northern california has shut down yosemite national parks. roads and trails are closed

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good morning. 50 minutes past the hour. a canadian community is just trying to understand this morning how this bus crash carrying a junior hockey team happened. 15 people were killed. at least 14 others were injured. it collided with a tractor-trailer in canada's saskatchewan province. coaches and players for the humboldt broncos team were on board and on their way to a junior league playoff game. >> some of the victims posted on social media from their hospital beds and here are three survivors on gurneys holding each other's hands when this went viral. it was captioned bonding and healing. authority have not yet identified the victim and not confirmed whether they were the players or the coaches and the cause of this crash still

unknown. rivers are flooding, roads are closed, more rain is on the way. we are talking about northern california this morning. >> cnn meteorologist allison chinchar has the forecast for us. a lot coming to yosemite. >> that's right. i would like to point out regarding yosemite, they have made a note if conditions warrant they may open the park back up at noon today but not making that decision until they get out and take a look at the park. here is what we have. this was that atmospheric river, plume of moisture that came in over the last 24 to 48 hours. now the good news is this is going to start to push a little bit farther interior and as it does so, you're going to start to see an end to that rain. this morning, that's not the case. we have still got rain expected for washington, oregon, and into california. but it will start to come to an end by this afternoon and the evening. this is a good thing. especially when you consider how much rain has already fallen across these areas. these numbers are just from

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this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> breaking news out of syria. there is new video from eastern ghouta, a suburb out of dah mass

cause. several were attacked with a suspected chemical agent. >> we are talking about dozens of people who have reportedly died. we have to warn you that the video you're about to see is graphic. and now if you don't think you can take it, look away, if you don't want to see it. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> i know it's so hard to look at. these are the people of d ourou lying on the floor. you see foam around their mouth that is a sign of a chemical attack. this is not the first time chemical attacks have been reported in syria. >> the government has been accused on at least three other occasions the last six years but the syrian government denies being behind this incident. >>