For the g 7 as tensions with moscow heighten. President has called for reconciliation with russia when possible. On sunday tillerson blasted the kremlin as incompetent for allowing syria to hold onto chemical weapons. Meanwhile, resuming operations at the airbag base that was the target of u. S. Missile strike. That came in response to chemical weapons attack by bashar alassad. Russian tv aired this taking off from the air base. The video also showed some of the damage from those strikes. And it appears the forces resumed campaign of air strikes against rebel forces over the weekend. According to the syrian observatory for human rights, a serious of strikes on saturday killed at least 18 people and five children until the rebel controlled province. President trump does not seem to deterred syria president. According to state media, assad called the u. S. Strikes a failure. A navy admiral tells ri s reutee strike droid the means to deliver chemical weapons. Mapped out the next steps in
Or would russia prefer to realign with the United States, with other western countries, and middle east countries who are seeking to resolve the Syrian Crisis . Bill kevin corke leading coverage from the white house with the latest from the north lawn. Good morning to you. A very high stakes game were talking about here from the russian perspective you are a major stakeholder in syria. You want to have something moving forward even if it isnt the assad regime. The rest of the world is simply saying what are you doing backing a killer of his own people . And thats essentially the message that we expect secretary of state Rex Tillerson to take directly to the kremlin as he meets with his russia counterpart. House officials have been consistent in saying this. Russia needs to get on board with the rest of the world or be left behind. When you see the very decisive, resolute actions of President Trump late last week after he said exactly what he said he would do on the campaign trail, with
This as they start a new week. According to a new nbc news wall street journal poll, 29 of the decision to remove comey and 38 disapprove and 32 at the moment, no opinion. When asked my President Trump fired james comey theyre saying that 46 agree that the president did it to slow down the russia investigation. 38 saying its because of comeys handling of the clinton email investigation. Which is what the president has been saying. But has it hurt the president s Approval Rating . It now stands at 39 . Thats one percentage lower than last months poll. Well within the polls margin of error so Little Movement there. That is the back drop of an acti active search of eight names for the next director. Lets go to Kelly Odonnell, she has been following this. Weekends have been very busy here, kelly. When we look at the names even Merrick Garland being added to the list, although we dont know i think whether hes actually been interviewed. He has not been interviewed and that was the suggestion
Washington, d. C. , with a special report on the events from charlottesville, where a White Nationalist rally erupted in violence this morning. White nationalist groups attending a unite the right rally to protest the removal of a confederate statue clashed with counterprotesters and clergy and members of the black lives matter movement. The rally ended before it began when charlottesville officials and then tear rry mcauliffe declared a state of emergency. The most Serious Violence happened when a driver plowed a car into a crowd of peacefully marching counterprotesters killing one person and injuring 19 others. Several witnesses say they believe it was intentional. Police have arrested one person in connection with the crash. Its being investigated as a criminal homicide. Police say in addition to the crash, another 15 were injured at todays protest. Lets go right to nbcs correspondent who has been in the crowd. Maya, where do we stand now, including on those injured . Reporter right
A difficult visit in chile the pontiff faces a week in Catholic Church their leading followers after in waves of sex abuse scandals involving. The prophets of war we connect the dots to show how a German Company is reaping millions of euros by supplying weapons for the saudi lead in yemen. And britain barrels toward bribes it as lawmakers there debate the last stages of the of. A special report on a key Sticking Point the rights of e. U. Citizens in the u. K. Welcome to the program. In germany the leader of the social Democrat Party Martin Schultz is urging members of his party to back moves to form a new grand coalition with chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives now the two sides hammered out an agreement last week that paves the way for negotiations on a new government delegates to a key Party Conference on sunday must now approve that deal but schultz faces a hard sell among the rank and file with many say that it betrays social Democratic Values so he has traveled to the partys h