a big price to pay for the attack. let's go to washington where correspondent claire richardson is standing by clare it's been just hours since we heard about this attack but why has the u.s. been so quick to get involved here hi michelle you have the u.s. state department was quick to respond to say that it's monitoring these reports and significantly they've called for an immediate response from the international community as well as criticize russia for its ongoing support of bashar al assad's regime now it they said that it is russia who is ultimately responsible for this possible chemical weapons attack because of its continued support for the syrian government and its perhaps its strongest ally so now this all puts donald trump in a rather sticky situation if you'll remember just last week he said he wanted to pull all u.s. troops out of syria but didn't offer a clear timeline of when he was going to do it so now we're seeing him on twitter calling it the chemical weapons attack...