called a barbaric chemical attack on innocent syrians and vowing everybody will pay a price and a possibility u.s. strike will come in the next 24 to 48 hours. and meeting kim jong-un, president trump predicted a very exciting summit with the north korean leader. saying plans are well underway. we re learning those plans include secret direct talks with the community regime. i ll wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. . announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the fbi raids the office of president trump s personal lawyer and long-time fixer michael cohen. a source said some of the do. s had to do with stormy daniels. and they say the raid is by a referral by robert mueller and president trump will decide
doctor. be thankful for saving their lives. wow. that, of course, is referring to the idea he s cutting off a limb, the limb being terrorism, being isis. somehow, a whole lot of innocent syrians have become involved in this. a whole lot. joining us now, nbc news international correspondent. and david miliband, the ceo and president of the international rescue committee. he is, of course, also the former british foreign secretary. and nick cristoph, new york times columnist. set the stage. the latest from the administration in terms of responding. listen, you saw the tweets from president trump. we heard just in the last hour and a half from the u.s. defense secretary, he was welcoming the qat qatari leader. he had this to say. take a listen. something we have to look at is why a chemical weapon is still being used at all when russia was the framework here of removing all the chemical weapons. working with our allies and partners, from nato to qatar and
any school-aged syrian child has known all their lives. the fate syrian parents know could come for them or their children today or tomorrow or any day under the onslaught of the assad government. more than 70 civilians, including children, including children, were killed in this attack. according to humanitarian group, the international rescue committee. the syrian government has denied using chemical weapons. other video shots show children being treated for chemical inhalation, as people know, chillingly, being familiar with the response of chemical strikes and work to save lives. if you re a 7-year-old syrian child, you don t know any other world. 11 million syrians have been displaced. 400,000 to 500,000 people have died. in a series of tweets, president trump called the alleged use of poison gas mindless and an atrocity, and blamed and this is noteworthy president vladimir putin for backing bashar al assad.
the past seven years. this is according to the syrian observatory for human rights. it s a watchdog group. the u.n. refugee organization reports that more than 5.6 million syrians have fled the country. the majority, more than 3 million, hosted by neighboring hurt k turkey, many in jordan, and others are seeking relief in europe and north america. they re a nationalist boogie man in recent years. more than 6 million people still in the country left their homes. they are considered internally displaced. the assad regime is accused of using chemical weapons at least 30 times since the uprising began in 2011. according to u.n. investigators and recent news reports. what s the assad regime accused of using? while the chemical alleged to be involved in the most recent attack we showed you video of is not known, the regime previously used chlorine gas from world war i, causing a burning sensation
argue we as an international community care. we manifestly don t. right. clearly, primary responsibility is about the assad regime. it s about russia and iran. but the international community also failed syria. failed the syrians in terms of i mean, you know, since 2012, there have been reports of poison gas being used, mostly chlorine in syria, almost once a week. it s hard to know whether all these allegations are true or not. there is clearly a continuing operation of poison gas, because it works. you know, look, i m in favor of raising the price of this kind of behavior. i think some people say, you know, what does it matter, whether it is poison gas that kills people or conventional bombs or bullets? one of the principles of the world, since world war i, has been that there are some kinds of brutality that we should try to wall off and stigmatize and