The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Unleashing a nerve agent in the uk. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Republican Chris Collins of new york first sitting member of the congress to back the President Trumps bid in february 2016. He was such a strong supporter of mr. Trump collins at the Republican National convention was asked to formally second mr. Trumps nomination to be his partys nominee. I have the honor of seconding the nomination of donald j. Trump as the next president of the United States of america but today the congressman was arrested by the fbi. Moments ago the congressman walked out of Federal Court in new york city where he was arraigned. Prosecutors this afternoon detailing the grand jury indictments of the new york republican, his son and his sons fiancees father for 13
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relatively light. it can affect some exports, financing. the real test is going to be if russia doesn t allow inspections of chemical weapons facilities and doesn t make assurances to not use them again then there are harsher sanctions, ban all imports and exports and relations. that will really be the test for this administration. their hands is forced because it s the law. exactly. earlier today, interesting move, senator paul of kentucky delivering by hand a letter from president trump giving it to putin s administration in russia. it s not really clear what s in the letter, though. it is not. initially rand paul advertised this as something he was a courier here of president trump and president vladimir putin but we are told by white house sources that, in fact, president trump was doing a favor for rand paul. he was in moscow. wanted to meet with the russian president and president trump, this according to white house, wrote a letter of introduction and that this was not a
chemical attack coming as congress introduces a new authorization of military force only days after u.s. missile strikes against syrian chemical weapons facilities. it would only allow military force against terror groups but not against foreign governments. joining me now is senator john barrasso, a member of the senate foreign relations committee. thank you for being here. why now? why has your committee introduced this new authorization of the use of military force just days after the strike in syria? i oppose it. i support the president and had full authority in syria. those people promoting it some want to authorize the use of not much force. i think that some of these people are trying to tie the hands of the president and his ability to act as commander-in-chief in keeping us safe and secure. so i oppose the effort and try
syria. jennifer griffin working all weekend live and jennifer, good morning at the pentagon today. what is the assessment from the pentagon regarding the strikes late on friday night? good morning. sometimes it s what you don t see in military warfare that sends the message. i m told by well-placed u.s. defense sources the russian and syrian air defenses did not even see the u.s., french and british near simultaneous attack on their radar systems when the 105 allied missiles landed within minutes of each other launched from warships and jets stretching from the mediterranean to the persian gulf. we ve successfully destroyed three buildings in metropolitan damascus, one of the most heavily defended aerospace areas in the world. three chemical weapons facilities obliterated including a research center. general mckenzie says russia s
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