"cnn newsroom" and ana cabrera. this is cnn breaking news. >> it is 9:00 eastern here in new york, 4:00 in the morning damascus syria welcome. this is a special cnn live coverage. global fallout. it was on this show one week ago that we saw the first images of an attack in the suburbs of damascus. we are going to take you live in the wake of coalition air strikes inside syria. political fallout as news continues to drop tell-all book, the white house in full attack mode. trying to discredit the man trump fired nearly one year ago. newly released clips from the interview. legal fallout, president's fixer in hot water.

after stunning revelations come out of a new york courtroom. hush money, airs one hour. 24 hours since the united states, britain and france acted together and sent a message to syria in the form of 100 missiles launched in the air and submarines. the factories that make deadly chemical weapons and the places they are stored. the research center in damascus destroyed. extensive damage in the city and this is the reason for the air strike. a senseless attack on civilians inside syria. chlorine gas and sir ran gas. >> president trump and other

world leaders don't believe them. >> cnn matthew chance in cypress, and in washington, cnn washington correspondent. boris, the president today tweeting the words, mission accomplished. does that mean in the u.s. lead military action against syria for now is over? >> not quite. the administration is walking a fine line here. you saw that tweet from president trump saying mission accomplished and the secretary defense james mattis saying this is a one time shot and administration officials like u.n. ambassador nikki hailey and mike pence saying that the united states is locked and loaded and ready to respond and act similarly if bashar al-assad uses chemical weapons on his

people again. it's not there's a clear picture, but it is a complicated one. for years, we have seen a nebras approach and gotten involved intervening syria and attacking the targets to keep bashar al-assad from using chemical weapons. it is the singular, all-together holding policy when the united states looks at syria. keep in mind, a few weeks ago, president trump saying that he was ready to remove the american troops home. leading to a lot of questions of what the future is for the american presence in syria when you can consider you don't know how effective this is and in the

extent that we crippled his chemical weapons reserve. that is a picture yet to be fully painted. they can't guarantee that they depleted his ability to use the weapons against his citizens. >> fireworks going off behind you. what is the white house next moves to follow the air strikes? >> that is unclear. no public events on the schedule today. maybe we will here from him tomorrow. he tweeted out, mission accomplished which is a negative historical connotation with george w bush. and then further he taughted his own support for the military tweeting out because of much needed federally approved

dollars, the military is greater than ever. the question is what does the united states do next? the president hasn't had a policy that is consistent on syria. not only did he say a few weeks ago he was redady to remove troops from syria and multiple told supporters that have nations have to be more involved in conflicts overseas. >> in this case, the u.s. didn't act alone. the u.k. and france joined the coalition in the air strikes. matthew, you are in cypress. the commander in chief declaring mission accomplished. do the british forces think the same? >> i think they do. they are saying the small part of their attack was successful.

four tornado fighter jets took off the air base under 100 miles from the syrian coast and attacked relatively limited target in holmes and northern syria, a location where the precursor elements, the chemical weapons were stored. the surgeconcern was that there caution to carry out the attack for a number of reasons. not particularly in british, questioning the legality carrying out this. without a a mandate. there were other concerns as well. the security of the actual planes and in order to meet that problem, another four aircraft were sent up into the skies near syria to provide air support to the bombers as they carried out

their strikes with storm shadow cruise missiles. and with the threats being made by russia with retaliation, cyprus may come under attack. >> okay. so this military message from the west was as much for russia as it was for syria. russia seems to be covering up for assad. how is moscow responding? >> well, i think the truth of the matter is, it is s hr ugged. off. >> slvladimir putin said it was violation of law. because of the security councilman date.

yesterday or today, the russians failed to get it condemning the air strike. they are going for international legal condemnation but the reality is that strikes against chemical weapons facilities are tactically significant but strategyically irrelevant alongside the russians to try to destroy the rebellion inside of syria. successfully, combined to crush in eastern ghouta where on the final day and hours they used the chemical weapon and the next target will be the northern incrave or the southern rebel enclave and they will use the same essential tactics and what they were able to do with the air strikes is take away from that in a sense that it is okay

to kill people in industrial quantities but just don't use chemical weapons for it. that is not going to interrupt the strategic projectry. >> thank you all for that reporting. i want to continue this conversation with democratic congressman of new york. the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman thank you. do you support the actions that happened over night last night? >> i think the action that happened over night is something that many people, including myself support. it is important to send a strong message that the gassing of a population is not something that is acceptable. if this were to continue, and if the president were to feel that he needed to take steps necessary to have further

bombing s, then the president will have to come to congress. i think congress has a very important role to play here. administrations have been using the ammf to go after al qaeda after the tragedy of 9/11 and the administration to use it as a catch-all to do whatever they want. that cannot stand. congress has to play a role. we need to put forward a new aumf. i don't think the president should keep doing it without involving congress. >> if he comes back to congress after launching the strikes, would you give him authorization and vote yes? >> it would depend on the circumstances. i have difficulty in the fact that assad has murdered over 500,000 of his own people and certainly, when people are murdered with gas. it is horrific and people

murdered with all kinds of other ways as well. the west is sort of twidleed its thumbs these years and allowed putin and iran to back and prop up assad and to have these terrible atrocities perpetrated on the syrian people. i speak with many syrian-american groups and get the inside scope on what is happening. it is a terrible thing. i would like to see a plan for syria and i would like to see the future. assad cannot play any role in the future of syria. >> so you see regime change as the answer? >> i don't know if it is regime change. i would like to see a free and open society in syria. where they can pick their own leader and not be ruled by a murder that knocks them down. >> how would you get to that point, though?

>> i will tell you one way we won't. we should not have boots on the ground. you do have some of the rebels years ago. years ago, we had the free syria army. we should have helped them more. it's going to be tough. because essentially, everybody sat back all of these years and allow assad to get away with murder. i have two bills, one passed, which is the bill that slaps sanctions aiding and abedng these atrocities and also another bill that if funds go into the rebuilding of syria, none can go into the part that assad controls. i think there are other things that we can do to help move the game but it is very difficult because frankly, it's been years of inaction -- >> a lot of people are pointing fingers at the obama

administration. we spoke to a man who survived the 2013 chemical attacks and here is how he reacted to the strikes over night. >> i want to tell mr. trump, directly, i'm a syrian refugee who survived chemical weapons attack and lived under two years of seize by the government. i would love to buy you a beer and sit in front of you and tell you how bad it is in syria. how should listen to your not, not listen to the generals. you proved once again that you have a big heart at least a lot more bigger than obama. >> what is your reaction to that? >> i don't think that it really matters whether it is trump or obama. what i think matters is that the syrian people have been going through hell and the world has been sitting right by and allowing it to happen. you have iran that every time

that assad was losing this war in the past several years, someone would come in to prop him up. first iran coming in with hezbollah and then the russians came in. >> you don't want american boots on the ground but you think something more needs to be done. is there an argument to be made that the u.s., in the interest interest of the american people to get more involved in the conflict in syria? >> i don't want us to get involved in terms of putting american boots on the ground. i think there are syrians there to fight for their country. they just need the material. we should be providing that for them. it cannot in my feeling, strong feeling include assad who is again, if you think of the enormity of this, more than

500,000 syrians murdered. >> that was as of 2014 after the u.n. stopped counting. >> named after a photographer that snuck pictures out of syria ut of terrible atrocities of dead bodies all over the place and killed by the regime. it looked like something out of world war ii. we should be doing more and we should be doing it with our partners. no american boots on the ground. >> thank you so much congressman, we appreciate your time here. >> what targets were hit during the air strikes and how effective they are? the military experts basic it down live on cnn.

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we are learning more about the u.s. targeting syria chemical weapons program. the retire admiral aligned the assets last nights attack and the values of the targets hit. >> three targets hit last night and two storage facility in holmes and a research facility in damascus all related to the weapons program. the pentagon said they didn't wipe every chemical site off of the map but wanted to send a strong message that the chemicals were the problem. they did it in the middle of the night and precision guided ammunitions to cause the most damage to the target and least damage to the surrounding area. this is before the strike. i want you to look -- wait a minute. there we go.

you can look here and here are the three buildings of the research center and after the strike. everything around it in place. so precisely done on these three specific targets. >> one of the differences in this strike that was done on an international level compared to what we saw last year in 2017. that was solely the u.s. acting. the u.k. and france were involv involved this time. >> this was a coalition effort. that is a difference from last year. you had french, and u.s. navy ships and in the submarines in the red sea and mediterranean sea. of the 105 missiles fired, 70% tomahawk missiles. it is 20-feet long and flies at

sub-sonic speed. accurate and low to the ground. hard for air defense systems to pi pick up. it can do immense damage. it wasn't just sea coalition effort but also air coalition effort. 40 of the missiles largunched fm the air. tomahawk missiles from the air. and the stand off missile, first time used in combat. very effective. thank you admiral john kerby. back in just a moment. i cleared my inbox! holiday inn express, be the readiest. i had tried to quit before,g i had tried the patch.

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last night's air strikes on syria involved multiple nations and the impact will ripple. the shock wave of syria's long bloody civil war lead to a refugee crisis and instability. joining us now a senior follower at the council of foreign relations and robert right a fellow at the woodrow wilson center and a writer or "the new yorker". >> setting back serious chemical weapons for years. do you think the military action changed the game in syria in a significant way? >> not really. it limits assad to use chemical weapons, but the strike

indicated that the united states has to accept the realty that president assad is winning the war and may be around for a while. the president called him a monster and the pentagon called him a dictator and murder rous commander. and no u.s. strategy to try to end the civil war or replacing president assad. the administration both trying to push a peace process but not going any place. the idea that the strike would add a new momentum to the peace process is an illusion. >> what is the end goal short of regime change and the risk of creating conditions that could give rise to terrorists groups like isis? >> so the end game is six letters. trying to get the parties to the

table. the truth is, even though since 2011, official u.s. policy, the time has come for assad to step aside. he is not going anywhere. i talked to a syrian activist and they said it is wayoo late. nobody thinks that this changes the calculus. what is fascinating is watching the u.s., france and u.k. what we have seen in the past 24 hours we isn't seen in years. clear messaging, and coordinated strategy and a -- if you watch what they are doing in the un, to push the diplomatic path forward. this is the clearest coordination of these two allies in years. >> so gail, there's some concern about syria becoming another

iraq. is there a case to be made that further intervention in syria is in the best interest of the american people? >> you know, this has been the arguments for many inside of the obama administration who since 2012, 2013, 2014, i know robin talked to them, that the price for not intervening was not fully weighed. we don't topple the regime and provoek russia but make clear what the three allies and the international community will stand for. there is so much gain you see on the ground in syria. people, i interviewed moms who live under isis and walked out of the door sheltering their children's eyes from seeing hangings and beheadings. they said we are willing to

fight, we need the world to support us. >> the relations between russia and the west and the u.s. following the months of sanctions and reciprocal diplomatic expulsions. >> this is the third message in the last month. the government of vladimir putin to spop meddlitop meddling in t and western world. the expulsion of more than 100 intelligent agents from two dozen countries. and sanctions on the oligarch in russia. the russians did not attempt to intervene and did not do as they pledged to strike back at any target that hit in syria and to go after those who fired the missiles. ween haven't seen that. more than a year saying that president trump wanted better

relations with vid mladimir put. that is clear that is a long way off. and the chemical weapons against a spy in britain and the meddling in the u.s. election. an election coming up later this year now support for president assad that the united states even president trump drawing a line. it is hard to better relations any time in the near future. >> thank you ladies, i appreciate your insight. >> thank you. >> still ahead. life in limbo, the world debates the next move. syrians who evacuated face a dyer situation. near the border with turkey, you don't want to miss it. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent,

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as the syrian civil war grinds on. refugees live in limbo not knowing when the misery is going to end. seven years of suffering. hundreds of families live in make-shift camps as they free areas they call home. cnn international correspondent got a look inside one of the tent cities. spoke to people hours after the strikes. >> there's definitely something that stinks. these backpacks belong to 7-year-old twins from duma. they are shy. hesitant. >> translator: i smell something she says. >> the mother tells us that they

remember everything vividly. they were hiding in a basement when the chemical weapons attack took place. they could barely breathe. she court of lawed her way up dragging her daughters and then the other strikes began. we were between two deaths, either from the chemical strikes or the others on the rooftop. >> the smell is still quite strong. these were the things they were not able to watch yet. >> that's the toy her daughter hid to try to keep her safe and she would tell the toy, you might sufficieocate but at leasu will be safe from the bombing s. that's how the kids mind works. yesterday they were digging a tunnel for the ants so they won't suffocate just in case

something happens. >> another one we meet a boy. his uncle who doesn't want to be identified was the worst affected in the family. his blood sample taken the day before. this new camp is inhabitated with those who survived the siege of duma, months long bombings that drove families under ground. feeling the sun on their skin was a luxury. went outside when she says three air strikes slammed next to them. the next thing she remembers is being in the hospital. she just got out of surgery when the wounded from the chemical strikes began coming in. the scene was so hoar riff if i can she forgot her own pain. nobody had the heart to tell her that her husband is dead. her son, 2 years old, too young

to remember his father. >> it's a little more than a move on a gruesome -- 68-year-old arrived four days ago and buried too many relatives to count. including her son and grandchildren. >> there is nothing left. >> she says her country caused her too much pain and remembering the long lost days when her family was around her. when they were all alive when feeling safe wasn't a luxury. it is all just too much. >> wow, joining us now live from the turkey/syria border. it is hard to fully come apply he -- comprehend what their lives are like.

do they think they will ever be able to return? >> they are so conflicted about that. deep down inside, they want to be able to. but they are confronted with the reality that there is not much to return to. and perhaps, the bitter pill to swallow, that the war is unlikely to end any time soon. the suffering and bloodshed and on going relentless fighting. this is what they had to go through and it doesn't seem the powers who have the capability to bring an end have the woill o do so. >> it is a chilling story that you are covering. thank you for that report. coming up, president's trump attorney face ago deadline to turn over his client list. live in the cnn noo"cnn newsroo" me.

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>> i don't remember thinking about that consciously, but it must have been. i was operating in a world that she was going to beat donald trump. i don't remember spelling it out, but it had to have been that she was going to be elected president and if i hide this from the american people, shell be i will legitimate the moment she comes out. >> would you still send that letter? >> i would. >> let's talk it over with guy louis former u.s. attorney working at the justice department with comey. are you surprised about that in the announcement? >> i am some what surprised because the fbi and director, they are not supposed to make decisions based on politics and to me, the answer is really does sort of sound like injecting politics into his calculus. >> comey's memory includes

pointed and personal attacks on the president's hand size, skin tones, the bags under his eyes and the the interview with george stephanopoulos and questioning the relationship with his wife. do these attacks square with who you knew at the justice department? >> i don't think it helps. there is nothing about that that you find enlightening or interested. there's actually two people in washington who is mad as hornets about this book and these revelations, one is trump. we know what the president thinks. he made it clear in his tweets m but the other person we have not heard from is bob mueller. i mean, look, comey is a witness in the investigation.

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represents stormy daniels in a deal that cohen agreed to pay 130,000 hush money. she also represented karen mcdougal. cohen and davidson have worked on another deal in the summer or early fall of 2017 involving the deputy's finance chairman committee, that agreement was made with a former playboy model. according to a source who has seen that agreement. he would pay $1.6 million over a series of payments to be made over a quarterly payment for unspecified personal injury claims. now, we have since gotten a constipate from mr. brody when this story broke. he admitted that he did have a

mistress. he said at the end of her relationship, sh woman shared with me that she was pregnant. i offered to help her financially during this difficult period. we have not spoken at that time. not long after that statement was sent to us and broidy stepped down from his position. >> sara sidner, tell us more on the special report on michael cohen and the raid and the center of this scandal that airs tonight on cnn at 10:00. we have laid out a time line of ec events of major scandal facing the trump administration. we again with the raid of michael cohen's, we revealed our scandals involving hush deals and alleged affairs and some what authorities say they confiscated during the raid of three places that cohen lives or

works in. now, we also got unprecedented access and talked to many different people who all say this signals a major turning point in the case of surrounding president trump. michael cohen is his personal attorney but also his go-to guy and his fixer if you will. if you only been getting bits and pieces of the daily gush of information that's hard to keep place to see it all put together so that makes sense to you and explains why it could be very important and damming all the way up to the oval office, ana. >> sara sidner, we'll look forward to your special. it is seconds away now. we really appreciate your time. i will be back live here in the newsroom, 30 minutes from now. cnn's special report "hush money" with sara sidner starts right now.

>> the if lowifollowing is a cn special report. you have to ask michael cohen. he's my attorney. >> reporter: he's been called donald trump's pit bull. >> cohen knows where all the bodies are buried because he may have buried most of them. >> the loyalest of trump. >> breaking news, trump's lawyer raided. >> the agent is armed by multiple search warrants. >> raided by the fbi. they stuck their foot in the door so he could not close it. >> how big of a deal is it? >> a huge deal. >> what were they searching for ? >> they're looking for evidence of hush payments to women. >> is the pattern the pay off to protect the billionaire? >> you are going to get the $150 billion for it. >> who