>> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> all right. i'm hala gorani live in beirut. we'll have a lot more from lebanon after a break. >> stay right here with cnn newsroom. . >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, i'm isa soares in london, where it is 9:00 in the morning. >> hello, i'm hala gorani. it is 11:00 a.m. if lebanon. we are covering the reaction to the u.s. strike against a syrian airbase in the aftermath of a chemical attack that the united states plams on tblames on the regime of bashar al-assad. assad denies that it has been complicit against civilians,

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randi kaye has more. >> you speak russian? >> yeah. >> really?t's happening in meetings. >> some of those meetings may be exactly why the fbi and the justice department are so interested in communications between carter page and russia. page is a former foreign policy adviser for donald trump's campaign. >> i was a junior member of the campaign's foreign policy advisory group. >> that's what he says. but for months now, president trump's team has been struggling to define his role. even going so far as to deny he was part of the circle. >> he's not part of our national security or foreign policy briefings that we do now. >> carter page is an individual that the president-elect does not know. >> i don't think i've ever spoken to him. i don't think i've ever met him. >> he never briefed the president personally. there's no doubt he was part of the campaign. and he looks to be part of the investigation into trump associates ties to the kremlin before the election. carter page's history with russia goes back to 1991 as the soviet union was breaking u

here's randi kaye. >> reporter: it was first lady melania trump's first visit to the state departmentvisit to any cabinet department. more than two months into her husband's term, mrs. trump is still keeping a low profile. until wednesday, the last time she spoke before a television camera was february 18th at a thank you rally in florida with her husband. >> thank you. >> reporter: here at the state department, she took part in the international women of courage awards. >> these honorees who have fought on the front lines against injustice are true heroes. >> reporter: the first lady is still living in new york city at trump tower with the couple's young son, barron. at least until he finishes the school year. her arrival in washington this week, considered such a rare event, that the "washington post" likened it to a rare bird sighting. >> i urge you to not be afraid to fail. a failer will never have the power to define you as long as you learn from it. >> reporter: it seems the first lady is taking steps to define her platform, highlighting education and women's empowerment at this

randy kaye takes us back to 2011 when this uprising began. >> reporter: is syria, a small town aboutcus. here is where graffiti capturing anti-government slogans capped the start of the syrian uprising. it was march 2011. and more than a dozen children had been arrest ed for drawing that graffiti. protesters demanded the release of the children and democratic reforms. it quickly turned violent with protests spreading and syrian security forces opening fire on crowds. >> translator: this is our land and we will not leave it. >> reporter: protesters targeted the government of syrian president bashar al assad. >> our enemies are working daily and scientifically to undermine the stability of syria. >> reporter: the regime's response was swift. a brutal crackdown, massive arrests and casualties. the president made promises that never came. >> the level of anger is palpable. we're just a you few miles from the center of damascus. the people have taken over this whole area. >> reporter: the government militia continue to torture and murder their own people using tanks and surprise raids. >>

as randi kaye reports, few have any teeth. >> should i sign it?ause ] i'm going to sign and this is a very important signing. >> next is an executive order minimizing the economic burden of the patient protection and affordable care act bending repeal. >> reporter: on day one president donald trump got down to business, signing an executive order to ease the burden of obamacare. viewers got the message that donald trump was a man of action, but was it and the other executive actions just a photo-op? >> donald trump just assumed like as a business leader he would say do this and it gets done. but in government, a president doesn't have that power. >> reporter: in fact, of the more than 70 executive actions president trump has signed since taking office january 20th, a cnn investigation shows only a handful of them really have any teeth. take the affordable care act. the president's executive order back in january was aimed at the individual mandate which requires americans to have insurance. but these were already signed with insurance companies. w

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randy kaye tonight has more. >> reporter: president donald trump ordering a military strike in syria was like a punch to the gut for the alt right. a group of trump's most loyal supporters who in part voted for him because of his anti-war stance. trump's base of support is gone if he goes to war with syria, wrote blogger and author. just as the strike on syria was beginning. alex jones founder of the conspiracy driven info wars website said after the strike he would give trump the benefit of the doubt, but still tweeted, we are closer to the start of world war iii than we have been in decades, along with the #nowarinsyria. he asked if trump's strike on syria was a sign of betrayal. and this one, trump train headed to destination disappointment? >> i asked the question, why would trump hit a chemical weapons depot with thousands of tons of chemicals. >> reporter: tweeting, i guess trump wasn't putin's puppet after all, i'm officially off the trump train. ann coulter tweeted her dismay, those who wanted us meddling in the middle east voted for other candidates, and reminded us trump ca

randi kaye has more. >> ladies and gentlemen, i want to introduce the next president of the united statesdonald trump. >> he was a lifelong democrat, yet during 2016, general michael flynn found himself on the trail stumping for then republican nominee donald trump. >> as a kid who grew up in the a strong democratic neighborhood in the state of rhode island, i don't recognize the democratic party that i learned about. >> when he first met president trump, flynn was impressed. >> i felt the conversation we had was enlightening to me. >> flynn is a retired three-star lieutenant general who holds three college degrees, including an mba, with 33 years of military experience, serving as a commander both in iraq and afghanistan, and later as a director for intelligence in the u.s. central command, and president obama nominated him to be the director of defense for the intelligence agency, the pentagon's main spy service in 2012. he was forced out of that role two years later for publicly questioning obama's narrative that al qaeda was close to defeat. he later told politico that that was obama'

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randi kaye has more. >>> and why would trump hit a chemicals can depot with thousands of tons of ammoe colter who campaigned for trump tweeted her dismay, those who wanted us meddling in the middle east voted for other candidates and this reminder that trump campaigned on not getting involved in the mideast, and said it always helps our enemies and creates more refugees and then he saw a picture on tv even as far back as 2013, trump said that he was against u.s. involvement in the middle east, and he tweeted then that obama should save his powder and pleading with him sh, do not attack syria. this tweet from a veteran to donald trump, it was a clear sign that his supporters had lost patience with the predecessor and perhaps him, too, and he says, it is no more regime change no, more american dead, no more nation building, and it is what you ran on. even before the u.s. strike, some of trump's alt-right base were selling the idea that the chemical attack on the syrian people was a hoax. blogger michael seanovich said it was a red flag only meant to draw the u.s. into a war. and the #ho

randi kaye has more. >> we're going to sign.his is a very important signing. >> next is -- >> reporter: on day one, president donald trump got down to business signing an executive order to he's the burden of obamacare. viewers got the message that donald trump was a man of action. but was it and the other executive actions just a photo op? >> donald trump assumed he would say do this and it gets done. in government, a president doesn't have that power. >> reporter: in fact, of the more than 70 executive actions president trump has signed since taking office january 20th, a cnn investigation shows only a handful of them have any teeth. take the affordable care act. the president's executive order in january was aimed at the individual mandate which requires americans to have insurance. but for this year, contracts were signed with insurance companies. while it looks good on paper, the executive order had little impact on the law itself. >> this was done sloppily. it was done as a result that was a -- an executive action that loo

randi kaye, cnn, new york. >>> the end of the bill o'reilly era at fox news. it's ending with multiple sexual harassment accusations. the latest on all of it. a new look at the new cnn series premiering tomorrow night. >>> music is an explosive expression. >> every movement has to have a song. >> i can hear you. the rest of the world hears you. >> the music will always remind us it's possible. >> one small step for man. >> that is what anthems are made of. >> it's about standing up for your rights. we were killing our own children. >> what the hell are we going to do that for? >> it was a cultural political statement. >> music is a vehicle for revolution. >> that courage changed how i viewed human beings. >> the aftermath of 9/11, everybody was together. >> somebody has to put this into words and emotions for everyone to hear. >> this is how we remember history. >> soundtracks, songs that define history premieres tomorrow at 10:00 on cnn. d waita home loan, that newly listed, mid-century ranch with the garden patio will be gone. or you could push that button.