for more on the story we're joined now by correspondent on child maura who is monitoring the situation from beirut in neighboring lebanon so what's the latest you can tell us about the suspected attack. well what we have heard from syrian american medical society and my talents which are a group of medics and activists working on the ground that yesterday evening of a quarter to eight in the evening barack containing a chemical agent was dropped and part of the lost city and they started receiving a lot of patients and the these patients the street signs like excessive or reforming which has led the medics to conclude that they've been attacked with a poisonous gas now all videos that have been shed by these activists and medics on the ground with us of course the images are quite graphic they say that it is likely a chemical agent has been used but that of course cannot be verified verified until and unless you call to illegitimate of quality on the ground. all right well the images cannot be verified but just how credible are the claims from the syrian opposition groups should we bel

but also to put a party like a sculpture because a bar is usually flat so just to make it come alive maura look more treaty the latest project is called cocktail factory the video is sharon and her child's boss and it corporate events and now it's this is the disclosure of so far. in this is a facade i've never seen anything like this it's a great idea twenty five year old is a sculpture he's a cedar tree it's like an entire package litter it's not just fish roast it's actually started happening in front of your arms to get what she really likes the. film i think posted their first video in a pretty share online in two thousand and fifteen since then had its received millions of clicks on social media sites like facebook. no you're. it's nice to create a small world. in a missionary world and to yourself and to see him do this and in the case of the pretty sure for. it's like a small guy going to be corrupt so that's that's a lot of for. nothing sell their videos to restaurants and event organizers all of the world. in this video the chef follows in the footsteps of marco polo this is part

host: tracy from minneapolis, republican line with ambassador maura connelly.uys.: good morning this whole thing has me a little cynical. i am supposed to believe they care about the syrian people. we have chemical attacks going on in this country in the opioid addiction. strong-arming the palestinians. sometimes we do not say things about certain things and sometimes we do. there is more to these types of situations. we have hidden motives or something. about,do not even talk we are broke. this country is bankrupt. there is always money for these and there is always situations where we have to go in and do this. we do not even have any money. the problem with the middle east, they do not want to central bank system. they do not want to pay interest on money and we cannot understand that. i want to see what she thought. thank you. host: we are getting an indication of just how expensive these tomahawk missiles are, upwards of 1.5 million dollars to $1.8 million per missile. guest: when you talk about the action we took on friday, it is likely there were other o

ok with that update thank you very much maura meanwhile the u.s. defense secretary admitted on thursday that there's no clear evidence that chemical weapons were used in duma last weekend but james mattis did insist that america has the right to carry out a preemptive strike on the syrian government to defend its troops he goes down of looks now at how washington appears to be scrambling for a pretext for intervention we're looking very very seriously very closely that whole situation and. we'll see what happens folks will see what happens if the drum of war is beginning to bang in washington and the beat is for syria the u.s. is again accusing president assad over using chemical weapons on his own people but the basis for this conviction appears to be lacking one crucial aspect we're not engaged on in the ground on the ground there so i cannot tell you that we had evidence well something is better than nothing but right now it's just a feeling behind a possible military attack is it enough to risk ask elating into a war with syria's allies and eve

analyst thank you for being on the program to give us your thoughts on this big story today thanks maura to bacteria in a bit so russia's been playing before course without any conclusive evidence ever provided here's a look at how the russia did it equation works in the script case. ok we're going to get back to the scruple case and the latest developments in the ted important but now another live news event taking let's go to turkey vladimir putin in ankara and is holding a joint press conference with the turkish president let's listen in the most of this is started to come here to visit of mr putin or is it allows a demonstration at the on to the high level of relations. between our countries. you know also would like to express bus depots going galu service because it would people of russia because of the tragedy which happened in camera. and the tragedy. of such a mention of maggots here. and the grief so did because many children died. in that tragedy we've just completed. meetings between really. counts so. i mean but i mean to tell you the meetings meeting between the delegation

negative about john farrell and his predecessors, but then all of the people who support him, todd, maura, michele, ted, nadia, peg, tanya, ppsd, the entire controller's office are professionals who serve the city well. and once again i support this confirmation for another term. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any -- oh. please come forward. >> hi, my name is natasha, native san franciscan and i'm going to speak up for our interroverted department that won't come up to say what a great boss ben is. i wanted somebody to come up here and say something nice. that's my comment. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> mr. controller, next time you go to your office total the amount of money uncollected payroll taxes given to twitter and used to be five, now it's nine high tech companies that's taking advantage of this tax evasion set up by this administration and the past mayor. i've come up here several times demonstrating that a minimum of $217 billion of uncollected taxes have been granted to twitter and five of the high-tech companies. is that clear? sit around and talk about you want to charg

we speak with maura connelly. after that, our series "1968: america in turmoil" continues with a look at conservative politics. we will be joined by robert merry from the american conservative and matthew dallek. ♪ host: good morning. when congress returns, the missile strikes in syria and a new debate over the war powers act. it is sunday morning, april 15. u.n. ambassador nikki haley says the u.s. remains locked and loaded" if there is another chemical attack. 105 missiles striking three key targets over the weekend. we begin our discussion by asking you what is next for the united states military and our allies. was the mission accomplished, using president trump's