Compared hitler to Bashar Al Assad. Is that enough to stop calls for him being fired . In the drivers seat. My one on one sit down with fords ceo mark fields. His message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. Good morning, everybody. Im ali velshi at Msnbc Headquarters in new york. Rex tillerson and Sergey Lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. The two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a News Conference. We know that there has been tense talk over syria. Todays meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house Intelligence Report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. President Vladimir Putin saying in an interview today, quote, wheres the proof of Syrian Forces using Chemical Weapons . There is none. End quote. Putin also says relations with the u. S. Have, quote, degraded since President Trump took office. President trump had his own criticisms of Vladimir Puti
hitler who didn t use chemical weapons. reporter: ignoring history. when you come to saran gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. reporter: spice e er attempto clarify. he brought them into to the holocaust center. i understand that. i m saying in the way that assad used them and went into towns and dropped them down on innocents. reporter: and apologizing in a written statement. there is no explaining it. it is to say, especially this week, it was not something was appropriate. it was insensitive. reporter: the blunder coming at the beginning of passover and parki sparking speculation. it is unfortunate and we should never have comparisons with hitler. ever. it is obvious spicer needs to
once assad crossed a line that the administration properly felt the world had to respond to, i think it illuminated how big a gulf separated the two sides. now you are seeing the dashed expectations of president trump and president putin of what is possible in the harsh light of how much our interests diverge in syria. it is not just the interests. carol, you have the white house struggling with the message and line they will tolerate in syria. certainly believing they had actual intelligence of the chemical weapons attack. the russian president says he has two theories for what happened. one, a near miss of rebel munitions and the other is it is completely fake. how do you bridge that gap? it will be difficult to bridge that gap.
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