Disturbing and graphic, but they drive home the relentless suffering women and children continued to endure now seven years into their civil war. Activists say Syrian Military helicopters dropped barrel bombs filled with toxic gas, suffocating some and sending others in convulsions. You can see the chaos at hospitals overwhelmed with injured people. At least 48 people are dead and hundreds more have symptoms of exposure. Doctors desperately try to wash the skin and the hair of young children. Their cries only quieted by gasps for air. Cnn cannot independently verify these videos which were taken by antigovernment activists and doctors, but we have Live Team Coverage for you tonight stretching from syria to the white house as well as a panel of experts standing birks and i want to bring in cnns Senior International correspondent fred pleitgen, the only western reporter in damascus. Fred, syrian officials are saying the rebels carried out this attack. Is anyone in the rest of the world buying in a explanation . Reporter well, certainly we havent heard anybody thats buying that explanation as of so far, ana, but it certainly seems to be quite a chaotic situation and very difficult to find out what exactly happened there late last night. Weve been able to piece together so far is that apparently all of this happened at around 20 minutes past 8 00 p. M. Last night local syrian time, and several opposition groups have been saying that the helicopters all of a sudden showed up over the area of duma which is towards the east of damascus, the last rebel enslave out there. They apparently dropped canisters and all of a sudden people became very ill and had respiratory problems and many people died as well. The numbers are still very difficult to put together. There currently seems to be over 40 people who were killed. Again, the situation there still somewhat in flux and so very difficult to say how many people actually succumbed to this. Youre absolutely right. The Syrian Government says it was not behind these attacks and had hinted it might have been the rebels themselves. However, what they were also saying is they didnt need any sort of chemical weapons in their offensive that they had going on at that point in time. They were making big headway against the last holdout that the rebels had supported by power from the air as well, and so they are saying they didnt need to use any gas to make that headway. But you have these accusations that are flying back and forth, but one of the things that we have seen time and again, and weve reported on it very well, ana, in the end its the syrian civilians really suffering the most, that we can see that by the horrible images that weve had to showers, unfortunately, throughout the past two days, ana. Fred, what can you tell us about whats happening in duma today to help those people and to move forward in this situation . Reporter well, you know, one of the remarkable things that has actually happened over the past 24 hours or so is essentially the Assad Government has won that district back, duma. Whats going on right now as we speak is that there are buses that are existing the place with rebel fighters in them and their families as well that are being taken to other parts of syria. At the same time there are also some prisoners that were held by the rebel progovernment people being bussed to the rebelheld areas of damascus. Essentially whats going on is this area has been won back by the forces loyal to president Bashar Al Assad with a lot of help from the russians. Ana. Fred pleitgen reporting live from nas cuss tonight. Lets go to the white house hand cnns Abby Phillips is there. The president is blaming animal assad and Vladimir Putin for his attack as well as his predecessor barack obama and hes promising, quote, there will be a big price to pay. Any indication what that price will be . Reporter thats right, ana. The president once again appears to be horrified by reports of a chemical weapons attack in syria, but its very unclear this time, perhaps more so than even the last time, exactly what hell do about it. A year ago almost to it the day President Trump authorized tomahawk missiles to strike at airfields operated by the assad forces, in retaliation for a similar attack, but this time around President Trump is coming into this event having said that he wants to pull the United States out. But on twitter he had really harsh words for assad, for Vladimir Putin, for iran and also for president obama who he pinpointed as the person responsible for putting him and the United States in this position. Heres what he said about president obama specifically. He said if president obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand, the syrian disaster would have ended long ago. Animal assad would have been history. Now, of course, President Trump promising that there will be a big price to pay. He appears to be drawing his own line in the sand. His national his Homeland Security adviser tom bossert are saying all options are on the table. Thank you. Some republicans on capitol hill say the president s choice is clear. Fire back or look weak. Well, its a defining moment in his presidency because he has challenged assad in the past not to use chemical weapons. We had a one and done missile attack, so assadsed a it again. They see our resolve breaking. They see our determination to stay in syria waning, and this is no accident that they used chemical weapons. If he doesnt follow through and live up to that tweet hes going to look weak in the eyes of russia and iran so this is a defining moment, mr. President , you need to follow through with that tweet and show resolve that obama never did to get this right. Joining us now, cnn Global Affairs correspondent elise labatt and National Correspondent tim nestle and fellow at the council of the war on foreign relations. The president s tweets this morning and even this afternoon seem to be battling his America First instincts to withdraw u. S. Forces from syria. Well, i dont know if well even see a wholesale change of his policy towards syria, anark. Hes made pretty clear that the immediate threat is isis. Wants that job done, and i dont think that precludes him from answering and responding to this particular attack and will do things that will hamper president assad from doing Something Like this in the future, using chemical weapons, and i think its also interesting, if you remember from last year he did when he launched that strike he said it was to send rash message. I think he could do Something Like that again. I dont think that will change his idea that the u. S. Is not there to stay through the civil war and be a buffer against iran. The National Security council is set to meet tomorrow with new National Security adviser john bolton leading the deliberations. I know youve been talking to your sources close to bolton. What can we expect . This is what we call a principal small group meeting. Its just the president s really top National Security advisers led by john bolton, but it will include the acting secretary of state John Sullivan because mike pompeo hasnt been confirmed yet as secretary of state, but hell be there as the director of the cia, and it will also include james mattis, probably the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general dunford, and they will be talking about the options to present to the president of what he can do. If you listen to President Trump this morning, this will be some type of response. What is that going to be . Whether its going to be a qualitative response that will change the equation on the ground, i dont really know, but i think talking to diplomats and hearing from President Trump himself and the state department who is Holding Russia kind of squarely responsible, i think youre definitely going to see some type of response and the u. N. Security council is also meeting tomorrow to discuss, so i think this is going to be a Real International effort. Tim, as we were listening to abby philip reading the president s tweets from this morning i saw you shaking your head. What stood out . All president s blame their predecessors for inherited conflicts, but a certain point in your presidency it becomes the president s conflict. 1969 nixon gives the silent majority speech. Vietnam becomes his war. Barack obama, november 2009, decides for the surge in afghanistan, it becomes his war. In april of last year, President Trump sent a missile strike, launched a missile strike against syrian targets, and at that point the syrian conflict became his problem. Clearly the russians didnt hear the message and assad didnt hear the message. Now the United Nations investigated that chemical attack last year and said that it was done by the Syrian Government, so we know that assad is a war criminal. So the question is now are we just going to launch missiles again, which, of course, assad and the russians will ignore, or is the United States prepared to deal with the fact that theres a war criminal running syria . I dont know if President Trump has the understanding of Foreign Policy to deal with this kind of problem. He is pointing fingers at russia though. He is tweeting russian president putins name condemning him directly. That is a change. Thats a change, but whats the followthrough . I mean, its really important that we stand up to russia, but heres the challenge. Look at what weve been saying about russia for a year. We send the missiles in to say to russia, dont do this with assad, dont let him do this and then our president talks about putin as if hes a good hes a good man, as if we shouldnt be worried about him. Only lately has the u. S. Government been able to put pressure on russia. The fact of the matter is all the authoritarians around the world arent believing us because they look at our president and they see that basically our president is not standing up for human rights abroad. Hes not asking for authoritarians to allow for democracy. All the signals hes sending about democracy are contrary to what you would expect of the United States of america, so no wonder assad and no wonder putin ignore us, and they will do it again if all we do is launch a missile strike. Gail, i want you to listen to the president last year after assad launched a chemical weapons attack. A chemical attack that was so horrific in syria against innocent people, including women, small children and even beautiful little babies, their deaths was an affront to humanity. These heinous actions by the assad regime cannot be tolerated. Senator john mccain today says trumps more recent talk of withdrawing emboldened assad and the president must now attack again. Do you think the president is in a box here . Did he draw his own red line . I dont think that the president is in a new box. I think the support in the same box that the Obama Administration faced. You know, this really is a moment of truth, a moment of crisis that is seven years in the make, and this was all entirely predictable because when you have this access of impunity in the assad regime with its russian and iranian backers which truly fears there is no norm it cannot trample, no standard it cannot break, you get absolute horrorses as the one were now witnessing. So you saw president obama try to navigate what this meant in a 2012 and 2013 and then youve seen now the Trump Administration really try to face the same set of questions. But theres no question, you know, the International Community has largely been neutered by the syrian conflict. It is a horror that has extinguished really the power of adjectives to describe how awful it truly, is and i think, you know, you see the International Community with all the teeth of an inflatable guard dog at this point and an assad regime that knows it. And russia clearly still backing that assad regime, issuing this stern warning to the United States. I quote, using farfetched and fabricated pretext for a military intervention in syria where russian servicemen are deployed at the request of the legitimate government is absolutely unacceptable and can lead to the most serious consequences. Gayle, what would be the consequences, do you think, of a u. S. Strike in syria this time, especially if russia troops were caught up in the damage . Listen, its so fascinating because for years since the isis fight started, deconfliction has been the norm between the United States and russia. They have gone out of their way on the military side to truly avoid any direct engagement, and now you see the situation where it is nearly unavoidable, right. You have the president really calling out the russian regime the russian president by name saying that they back the assad regime to the nth degree and show no signs of backing down and will be held responsible for it. The question we now see is will deconfliction give way to direct engagement between these two powers . Elise, you mentioned this emergency u. N. Security Council Meeting that was called. Should we expect a different outcome this time around . I dont think so, ana. I mean, look, the russians are a permanent member of the u. N. Security council with a veto, and not only have they not accepted resolutions criticizing the assad regime all along, they are certainly not going to take something that criticized themselves. You might see some kind of watered down statement, a president ial statement coming out. I think that there is more really of a way for, you know, countries to speak out tomorrow. Youll have u. N. Ambassador, u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley in the chair who hasnt pulled her punches on the assad regime or russia, so i think that that will be a very kind of tough moment on behalf of the administration, but, you know, in addition to the u. N. Security council, you also have the u. S. Working with its allies, talking to the brits today, talking to the french. I think if you see some action, i dont know if youll see something by the u. S. Alone. Could you see something from some other countries because, you know, the pictures are just horrible, and i dont think the world is going to stand by this time. Elyse, tim, gayle, thank you all for the thoughtful discussion. Coming cup, a former National Security adviser weighs in on trumps threat as well as trumps criticism of former president Barack Obamas strategy, and if you would like to learn more about how you can help the Syrian People survive the ongoing conflict in their country, you can log on to cnn. Com impact any time. Well be right back. Were almost there. Shes coming stall. My video calls lagging. Mom . Surprise surprise hold up. Hold up. We got a laggy video call here. You need verizon, the best network for streaming. Here. Trade ya. Okay, people, thats a reset. You want us to surprise her again . Yeah, but like in a fun way. Like this. All my favorite friends are here. Theres tony and diane. 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We normally cover many top nicks this segment but because of the gravity of the situation in syria we expect that will be the focus of the president ial brief tomorrow so lets stay there. Well have intelligence assessments on different pieces of this horrific puzzle. I think the briefing would probably start with the context. Chemical weapons have been used in syria since 2012 and each time the attacks happens the regime denies smoent. Th russia called it fake news hours ago and they blame the rebels even and try to restrict access to the sites of the attacks so medical professionals and relief workers cant gather any evidence on what happened. Thats exactly what were seeing play out right now. Intel professionals would want to provide more information on anything new that weve learned about this specific attack, for example, what kind of chemical agent was used and where is it being stored and how is it being transported, and is there any communication between syria and russia, for example, about any further attacks . Im trying to understand why russia and iran are standing behind Bashar Al Assad and allowing essentially the suffering of these people to continue. What exactly are they do to prop up the Assad Government . Well, ana, to the road to damascus leads through moscow and tehran. Assad is a war criminal. He would not have been able to kill hundreds of thousand of people without support from russia and iran. Russia, we know, for example, has provided military support, Logistical Support and diplomatic cover. We had treasury sanctions that came out last week against russian officials solely focused on their support for the regime. Its interesting, ana, you and i have talked about potential military intervention. The very presence of Russian Troops on the ground in syria is a deterrent in some ways for more direct military action by the United States because the administration is worried about direct confrontation between u. S. Forces and the russians. So we saw the president look back and go after president barack obama and his lack of action. Some have called tin action, but when it couple to a military decision he held back. Given the criticism President Trump is putting in that direction, do you think assad is worried . I think assad is worried, and its true that President Trump did take a very important military strike about a year ago, but ana the time to point fingers will come after the violence has stopped. The war is still ongoing, so i was hugely disappointed by the president s tweet on that. I do think in the nsc briefing tomorrow john bolton will walk through a further of options to deter further cw attacks. One is diplomatic, try to get more international condemnations. We tried that. It hasnt work. Another would be financial, more sanctions against russia and iran. Again, weve tried that. That hasnt work. The final two options would be in the military space and in the covert space. Militarywise President Trump could decide to apply more Ground Forces in syria. Right now we have forces there, but they are solely focused on countering isis, and President Trump could also meet with his team tomorrow and try to discuss getting more countries on board like saudi arabia, like the emirates to counter the threat in syria, and finally there are covert options which we cant discuss as much here, but those are always on the table. Sam vinograd, thanks so much. The president wants thousands of troops to bolster security at the border until he gets his wall. 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Several people were transported to a local hospital. Its being said that they were all undocumented people. Reporter when President Trump says that he needs to send troops down to the border because its a lawless place, how do you react to that . I think it i think hes wrong. I mean, we have enough authority in town to cover whatever is happening in our town. I mean, i dont think sending troops is going to solve anything. Reporter despite what villareal sees most nights, border towns consistently rank as having some of the lowest crime rates in the country, so the idea of bringing in the National Guard isnt popular among most residents. President trump says 2,000 to 4,000 National Guard soldiers will be sent to the border until the wall is built. In the past, these soldiers have worked in supporting roles, not here on the front lines like the banks of the rio grand. National Border ControlCouncil Spokesman hector gomez says the Border Patrol is 2,000 agents short of being fully staffed. They can help save our lives so our agents dont get assaulted or killed. We can see up to five miles, is that correct . Up to my files. Reporter the sheriff says the better way to boost bothered security is through technology. His department only currently has one camera today capturing the movements of an unsuspecting rancher two miles inside mexico. Hes lobbying lawmakers to invest in a 92 million plan that would equip local Law Enforcement agencies with drones, censors and more cameras. This is a force multiplier. This is only the camera system. Were talking about were missing drones and missing the sensors and all those technology that could, you know, be deployed and better secure the border. Reporter so you would much rather have the federal money for your technology instead of troops . Absolutely, without you a doubt. Cant they do the job themselves. Reporter Priscilla Villareal says bothered towns are now used to the intense presence of Law Enforcement, Border Patrol, state troopers, local police who can all descend on any crime scene. Its the new way of life on the border. Ive been living in the city for many, many years, and you get used to everything that happens in this city. Its just normal for us. Its normal. Reporter et lavandera, cnn, loredo, texas. Our thanks to ed. New tonight, comedian jimmy kimmel apologizing for his jabs as fox news host sean hannity. Kimmel offering to end their feud over his own recent joke about first lady melania trump. First, heres a reminder of how this feud got started. Watch. Hannity apparently took issue with a joke i made on the show on monday night, and this is what he had to say about that. This is brutal. Liberal jimmy kimmel making fun of the first lady of the United States and her involvement in the white house easter egg roll. Even her accent. Jimmy, youre a despicable disgrace. Take a look. Okay. Before we take a look [ laughter ] i want to recap what i said is brutal and heres why im a despicable disgrace. Be clever and curious just like a cat. Ask lots of questions about this and that. About this and that the. Ask clown kimmel. Im going to tell you something. What a disgrace. Hey, mr. Kimmel, thats her fifth language. How much do you speak . I speak six languages, exactly one more than melania and heres his apology on twitter. While i admit i had fun back and forth after the thought i realize the level of vitriol from all sides, mine and me included does nothing good for anyone and in fact is harmful to our country. Lets talk to bryant stelter, host of reliable sources. What is your take on his apology . Is he sincere or now . Sometimes trying to push his car on to the high road in this case and let this be over with and end this tit for tat that went on for days. Certainly provided toer for both mens shows, a form of entertainment, but kimmel is right that this is not helpful to anybody. It does nothing but caution damage, you know, in terms of the countrys discourse. So lets see if kimmels fans side with him. I nolanitys fans are going to continue to side with hannity on this one, and hannity is not accepting the apology, at least not yet and said hes teasing his show monday night so in other words this will keep going for a while longer. Do you think theres any risk in kimmel apologizing given that a lot of nance have drawn to him has hes turned his show more political, particularly on healthcare . He definitely has but is calling hannity a hypocrite in not so many words and still taking at his shots at President Trump. Kimmel is having both ways here by poking fun at the president. Seems to be taking the temperature down a little bit but not all together. So well see how hannity takes it on. I do think kimmel felt he needed to respond to some of the criticism. He was being called homophobic for some of the things he said a couple days ago. Came out and expressly apologized to the Gay Community for any comments people may have been offended by. Kimmel trying to take the high road on this but is making one important point thats not funny at all and that is that sean hannity shows a lot of deference to the president , best of to think of hannity as a informal adviser. Deploying troops to the mexico border. What was trump doing this time last week, having dinner with sean hannity at maralago. Han tip has been explicit about immigration for many years, wanting to see more action on the border and border wall. Its interesting to me that this entire week of tension around the border and around sending the National Guard, it may have all started with sean hannity at maralago whispering in the president s ear, so i think kimmel was making an important point about the President Trump and hannity alliance through all of these jokes. Sean hannity, jimmy kimmel apologizing to him. Where do you think he goes with this . More thanity any attention is positive attention. Hell try to keep this going tomorrow. Kimmel, i think hell focus on punching up towards President Trump. There you see hannity teasing into tomorrow. Thats tv 01, right, to try to get people to stay tuned. Kimmel, i think hell focus on the president. Thanks so much. Brian stelter, good to see you as always. Dont forget brians show is at 11 00 a. M. On sunday on reliable sources and coming up the president meets with his epa chief amid multiple scandals from private jets to controversial pay raises. 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President trump telling the world this weekend, quote, while security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor, scott pruitt has received Death Threats because of his bold actions at epa. Record clean water and air while saving usa billions of dollars. Rent was about market rate. Travel expenses okay. Scott is doing a great job. Weve learned that losing favor with President Trump can happen quickly. Cnns sarah gannon has a look at all the scandals stacking up against pruitt. Reporter as scathing headlines about epa administrator scott pruitt pile up, a rift is deepening inside the agency. Sources tell cnn that multiple senior officials, many of them fellow republicans who pushed back against pruitts management and lavish spending, have been demoted, reassigned or iced out for raising flags. One was the lead agent on pruitts security detail who was reassigned when sources say he refused to drive pruitt through town with lights and sirens to help him avoid washington, d. C. Traffic and get to meetings and the airport on time. Another was a top trump aide. This guy is a champ. Hes tough as hell. Whenever theres a problem hes not he runs right in like full blast. Runs. Hes a wild man. Reporter that manley kevin chim ha losky served as pruitts chief of star of operations and was stripped of his duties, and the exact reasons run known, but there were many extravagances that rubbed some staffers the wrong way, including a proposed 100,000 a month membership to a private jet company, two, proposed desks with a 70,000 price tag, that was bulletproof. Frequent and expensive trips to his home in oklahoma and several International Trips that cost taxpayers thousands of dollars and included a lot of pleasure time. Two sources well twoept that pruitt endorsed the idea last month of giving big raises to two staffers, but pruitt wouldnt say who was to blame for a raise in a wednesday interview. Who did it . There will be some accountability. A career person or political person . I dont know. You dont know. You run the agency . I found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action, and were in the process of finding out how it took place and correcting it. Reporter all of this has some white house officials losing confidence in pruitt, including chief of staff john kelly works has advocated for his firing. But pruitt has also been a good soldier carrying out trumps agenda to roll back hundreds of obama era environmental regulations, earning him friends in industry, on capitol hill and with one very important supporter, the president who met with pruitt at the white house today. That was sarah gannon reporting, and coming up in the newsroom, you know the date in november, but you dont know the whole story about the a preview of tonights brand new episode of american dynasties the kennedys is next. But what a powerful life lesson. And dont worry i have everything handled. 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Eager to be sworn in, lbj calls attorney general Bobby Kennedy for the precise wording of the oath of office. He wants to seize the reigns of power and show the world hes in charge. To bobby, this is hasty to the point of on scene. Joining us is evan thomas, historian, journalist and this episode focuses on how jfks death impacted bobby in a profound way. He lost his brother and as attorney general he lost the president he served so closely. What went through his mind in that period right after his brothers death . Well, he was worried that hed gotten his brother killed. He was worried about blowback, this assassination was somehow a reaction to that so he was fearful hed gotten his brother killed. On a grander scale, he has to wonder right away does he step in and pick up his brothers mantle, become a successor and carry the family name into politics . And so, as he faced this pressure to carry on the familys role in politics, how did he respond to that pressure and make the decision to run for president himself . Well, slowly and in agonized way. I mean, took him years. His basic nature is not to be the leader. He have wasnt the front man. He worked behind the scenes, propping up his brother, helping his brother. Now his brother is gone. Does he become the leader . It was a very it was an agonizing thing for him. Now he got there by the time he is running for president in 1968, he has stepped into that role. But it took a long time. Do you think he felt like he had stepped out of the shadow of his brother . Well, he wasnt born the natural role for the older kennedys, joe, kick and jack was to be out front. Bobby was a runt as a little guy and was insecure and didnt have his fathers approval and never been in that position of being the front guy. He had certainly worked hard for the family. But this was just all new. He wasnt confident. His voice wiz tinny and not cool than jack. Complex figure. We also saw how Jackie Kennedy was despite her grief focused on shaping her husbands legacy. She took some strategic steps, in fact, to ensure his presidency would be remembered a certain way. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, one thing she did she got the number one journalist teddy white then for life magazine which was a big deal in those days and spun this myth of camelot and it like all myths some truth to it. But she made it seem a little bit more romantic than it actually was. I dont think actually that jack kennedy did spend a lot of time listening to the music of the broadway show camelot and wanted to establish this imagery that was very, very powerful and she was a great pr person. She really knew what she was doing. Do you think she was successful ultimately . Yes. I mean, here we are. Were the countrys fascinated with the kennedys. This myth eroded, of course it has. We know more now and not as pure. More sullied but did legend of king arthur with adultery and rivalry, too. So the kennedys have become like king arthurs myth or shakespeare or the ancient greeks. Americas version of a timeless tragedy. Good to talk with you. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Reminder, a big night here on cnn. Up next, an encore presentation of the kennedys family secrets and then at 9 00 family of camelot. Thats going to do it for me. Thank you so much for spending part of your weekend with us here at cnn. Have a great night and a great week ahead. The American People have entrusted the power of the white house to john f. Kennedy. Since then, there has been one political disaster after another. And jfks troubles are far from over. Scandal threatens his marriage. The struggle for civil rights engulfs the south and the world faces nuclear annihilation. Aggressive conduct ultimately leads to war. 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