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rhe let's to christiane amanpour. it was 24 hours ago, telling us, one of the options for the president if he followed through on his language that things had changed for him, of bashar al assad was taking out airfields. what's your reaction this morning? >> i think 24 hours ago you understood that president trump changed his rhetoric on syria. and reaction is coming in fast and furious, supporting this strike from the u.s. allies. from britain, there's been a comment also from france, saying now you can see that the future of seyria is not with assad. and you had reaction from australia, from israel, which strongly support what happened. on the other hand, you can condemnation from what i call the usual suspects, the usual corners, russia, oi ran and syria itself. this has been a very important turning of the united states policy on these issues. it's a limited, targeted strike. it's proportional to using of chemical weapons the we tonight believe there will be furtherer strikes like that, unless there's further acti

major general mckaaccarley and christiane amanpour. and rick francona, thank you for being with us. >>> when we come back, we'll look at the impact this missile strike could have on politics, in the united states. >>> welcome back. the u.s. has launched retaliatory air strikes from cruise ships in the mediterranean. syrian aircraft were sporesponse for a chemical attack. russia is an ally of the syrian regime. russians at the base were warned of thursday's missile attack. i'm joined by california talk radio host, ethan berman and john thomas. donald trump, he vowed not to get involved in syria. clearly, he was affected by the images that came out of idlib of dying women and children and civilians. does that explain everything? or is it simply that once you're in the oval office, the view is different? >> i think that's the story. you can see that he was affected. obviously, by the children that were needlessly murdered. but really, it is, when you're privy to the intelligence, that the united states is, and you understand that whether

. >>> let's bring in cnn chief correspondent christiane amanpour. the chemical weapons attack and president trump in a press conference says this about crossing lines. >> the country of north korea, we have a big problem. we have somebody that is not doing the right thing. and that's going to be my responsibility. but i will tell you that responsibility could have been made a lot easier if it was handled years ago. >> okay, so let's get there with north north korea christiane. obviously the president wants help, how does he get president xi to stop or or curb? >> reporter: you have this idea of president trump called on the campaign, china as a currency manipulator and said china has been raping the u.s. economy and now he's got to sit down with president xi for the first time since making those comments and try to get together not just on the economy massively important for both countries, but also on is it existential threat posed by north korea, most analysts believe that north korea is well on its way not to be nuclearized, which is it is, but t

let's get some world reaction from christiane amanpour. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. >> what is your reaction given where the president was 36 hours ago to where we are now? >> reporter: well, i think it's absolutely where we thought he would go after his reaction in the rose garden to the chemical attack. the british defense secretary has just said this chemical attack by assad regime was the first test of the young trump administration and the united states were trying to deter any further attacks, so big big support by the united kingdom, they did this alone although the uk nato and others were informed this was going to happen but did not ask for any help from allies. we have reaction from germany saying this is understandable that particularly after russia and china failed to even come to a resolution to condemn the chemical attack and before that having vetoed resolutions condemning the chemical attack this reaction is quote understandable, that's from germany. japan also says it finds this appropriate, and israel has sai

we'll bring in christian am amanpour. what is your first impression, christian, of president putin and of the meetings today going on in russia with the secretary of state of the united states, rex tillerson? >> reporter: wolf, it's been described as a case of geopolitical whiplash. people are looking on and simply can't believe in the space of a week what was really a cozying up atmosphere between the trump atmosphere and the kremlin has turned into this something completely and utterly different. a lot of it from the kremlin's perspective is for public consumption. and they have kind of set themselves up because the media in russia right now is reported as being very, very anti-trump administration since the strikes in real eye ftaliation for the attack. but what matters is two things, whether they can get military deflection back from russia, but the secretary of state has gone over there to try to get vladimir putin to distance himself, disassociate himself, stop playing assad's lawyer and assad's military enforcer. an

our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. you know this region as well as anyone. take us through the president's comments today. from your perspective, are they a serious departure as far as the future of assad is concerned? >> well, there's certainly a serious departure. the president practically did a 180 on syria and assad and said that he had been horrified by what had happened and painted a portrait of what had happened in very dramatic and vivid language, referring to the babies, to the civilians that had been slaughtered by that attack. you can see that the president, along with his u.n. ambassador, secretary of state, are piling on the pressure and actually blaming assad. secretary of state saying there's no doubt, they believe, that assad conducted that chemical weapons attack. and so i think that that was a big departure and that's how it's being viewed in the rest of the world. internationally it's being viewed as a big departure. when the president himself said in response to a question that this crosses many lines, he said, way beyond even a red line,

here is what he told our christiane amanpour. >> there's no question that i thought president obama oncee drew that red line, they should not use chemical weapons. should have, in fact, followed through. we are now at a stage where syria obviously still has chemical weapons. they still have the potential to use those weapons. i think the most important position for the united states is that we do not want to see those kinds of weapons used again. we will do everything we can to prevent that from happening. >> cnn chief international correspondent christiane amanpour joins us now. interesting how time out of office breeding candor. what did you make of the evidence from the obama administration and what panetta said? >> interesting. panetta was one of the four or five gang that believes in a robust move toward syria. he basically said president trump did the right thing when heinous weapons of mass destruction were used. now this is interesting this comes up now as the reset to the negative to the trump administration and russia. now what we hear from barbara starr is that not only are th

our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour is joining us to discuss this.eaking story. you had a chance to speak to a doctor who treated some of the victims of this deadly attack. tell our viewers what he said. >> well, it is really a terrible thing that's happened there and it's in idlib, as you say, and i did speak to a doctor who was one of the first responders. he told me he had never seen anything like it. he described patients frothing at the mouths, short of breath, choking and all the rest of it. he said the actual symptoms were for him very reminiscent of a nerve gas attack. and so this is what he told me about what he saw there. >> translator: i saw children dead and i saw an entire family consisting of a mother and three children all dead. and i didn't see any military nature among the dead. there was no one who appeared to be a fighter at all. >> and so also we've seen these pictures of responders trying to do the best they can with the very, very limited tools at hand. so they were trying to hose down, wash the victims including with smoke and

. >>> we'll hear shortly from christiane amanpour. meanwhile, we learned the identity of the u.s.n detained in north korea taken into custody at the pyongyang airport as he tried to leave the country. this comes as tensions rise on the korean peninsula, north korean threatening to sink a u.s. aircraft carrier in a single strike. cnn paula hancocks joins us live from seoul, south korea. good morning, good evening to you, paula. what's the latest on this u.s. citizen detained in pyongyang? >> reporter: we have a name now, dave. we understand this man is called tony kim. we believe he was teaching at the pyongyang university of science and technology. we have a statement from that school saying he was detained as he was at pyongyang airport trying to get on a plane and we understand from this statement as well they don't believe his teaching over recent weeks has anything to do with the cause of his investigation. we have no indication why he was arrested, what his allegations against him are, what the accusations are the regime are. we haven't heard officially from pyongyang itself,

joining me now, cnn military and diplomatic analyst admiral john kirby and christiane amanpour. christiane, this missile launch comes on the heels of the speech at the united nations. comes after president donald trump said there's a possibility of, quote, a major, major conflict, the timing of this can't be coincidental? >> probably so, i'm not sure how long it takes to plan a missile launch. probably admiral kirby will know better than me. but what's absolutely clear, is that obviously we are at a very, very high crisis point in terms of this rhetoric and all the activity that's going on in north korea and the words that are coming out of the united states is really bringing us to a very dangerous point. and what you don't want is sort of policy made on the fly. policy on the hoof, obviously we have heard that the u.s. is undergoing a rather thorough north korea policy review, we have got the national security adviser, the defense secretary and others, but then you get words coming out of the white house like a major, major confrontation may be possible. and these are really, r

christian amanpour joins us, tell us the world's reaction thus far. >> reporter: it's really significant. obviously the allies are supporting president trump. in fact in the words of the british defense secretary he basically called it as it is. this is the first major test confronting president trump assad's use of chemical weapons banned under international law and therefore trump's reaction was to deter any further use of such weapons and deter to try to change the situation in syria to make sure those kind of weapons are not used again. and the allies are beginning once again to talk about assad -- not the same as years ago but as tillerson as said the u.s. secretary of state that somebody who does this kind of thing to their own people has no role in government. interesting is the russian reaction, while angry, calling it illegitimate, an act of aggression the russian foreign minister himself has said this will not lead to an inreversible situation. and the chinese reaction again very, very important as well because president xi is sitting with president trump in florida right now a

we have cnn chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. the context matters here.eeling it right now. we felt it back then. nothing happened. in your opinion, what are the legitimate options on the table for something to be different this time? >> well, you know, everybody has been waiting to see how an immediate foreign policy crisis would affect the trump administration. president trump showed how it affected him to the world yesterday. at the rose garden talking about the babies and children, the women, the civilians, killed in the horrific manner which was an afront on civilians. talking about many lines that crossed. including the red line. he kept doubling down on outrage. he didn't back down when people asked him about it. he kept going on about how bad this was. that in conjunction with the united nations ambassador said we might have to do something ourselves if the u.n. won't. what the president said all options on the table. secretary of state said there is no doubt that assad pep trarpet this. chris, it is true we have seen this before. the one in 2013

we have cnn's christiane amanpour joining us live from london.ur take on what happened this weekend. >> look, everybody was watching this with a microscope because it would say a lot about the state of the world as you described. europe is breathing a sigh of relief. polls were right. macron, who was one point ahead of le pen, actually came out two points ahead of her in the first round. what is this? for the first time in 60 years, since world war ii, center left and center right, socialists have failed to make it to the second round. you have the very, very far marine le pen national front and the other. not the extreme left. you have the center. emmanuel macron. he talked about reforms and managed immigration and talked about sticking with europe and free liberal trade and economy. unlike his opponent, marine le pen who is talking about suspends all immigration and pulling out of the eu and ditching the euro and going back to the franc. they would say it would bankrupt france. you have two competing visions for the run-off into the second roun

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christian amanpour, thanks so much for joining us. >>son it reported that's what president obama told president trump that neek, the biggest threat to united states because of that capability or because they were such wild play, such a wild card? >> yes, there's no doubt that president trump emerged from his final conversations with president obama, president obama warning him that the gravest national security threat facing the united states right now was north korea because of its nuclear capability, ballistic missile capability, and the unpredictability of the leader kim jung-un. and i think it sort of had an huge impact on president trump. >> we'll standby. everybody standby. we'll be right back with our breaking news. we'll have the latest live on the ground in the middle east. and seconds... how about adding a third? we think there's a bajillion ways to measure success. and whether you have hundreds or millions... we think you deserve the financial freedom to sleep like this at night. this is the new success story. and at t-i-a-

tony blinken and christian amanpour. it's hard not to kind of have a whiplash with all of this. i mean, obviously politicians say one thing when they're running for office, something else entirely when they're president of the united states. but so many 180s in just a matter of days. >> yes, and i actually described his epiphany on syria as a complete 108 and that was exactly a week ago today. but obviously this is a man who had no foreign policy experience, and he's in office with all the major issues coming at him almost all at once. so, of course, he's grappling with the reality of what's in front of him. he has some very good advisers. he has very good national security adviser, very good secretary of defense. secretary of state is new to foreign policy in that regard. but he's evolving as these situations are evolving. the question is, does it evolve into strategy and a real policy, whether it's over syria, with russia, or is it knee jerk reactions and responses to what's needed at the moment? >> tony, i can't help but think of the other republican candidates during the pri