trump administration is saying, secretary of state rex tillerson, the justification for this as he presented it in mar-a-lago where he is right now with president trump was essentially that the assad regime has continued to use chemical weapons, they have normalized that use, and because of no international response previously, the secretary of state said the trump administration was respond to a spot in the way that it did. it also took russia to task. we have heard a stronger language towards russia from rex tillerson, the secretary of state, and the trump administration over the last couple of days saying because of the deal that was struck in the last administration that russia said it would destroy the chemical weapons and oversee the destruction of chemical weapons in syria. tillerson says clearly russia has failed in its responsibility and russia has been complicit or simply incompetent on delivering its end of that agreement. it is a question of where they stand on bashar al-assad's