An ad outrage. The new pepsi commercial featuring Kendall Jenner sparking a huge firestorm. Using protesters and police to sell soda. Critics calling it tone deaf. Social media having a field day. Will the ad be pulled . Good morning, america. It is a busy wednesday morning right here and, boy, you got to say if Kendall Jenner and pepsi wanted some attention, they got it. Yeah, theyre getting a lot of it this morning. A lot of backlash being compared to this famous image of a black lives matter protester and a lot of people taking exception. Perhaps not the attention pepsi was hoping for. Well have much more on that coming up. First President Trump facing one of his first major challenges oversea, the crisis in syria. The white house is condemning that chemical attack that killed dozens of people. The worst there in years and the u. N. Security council is now holding an emergency meeting about this today. Our chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with all the latest. Goo
Frances rivera. The president says atrocities carried out in syria are now his responsibility. The president declared the horrific attack as an affront to humanity, claiming the attack has changed his mind about syria and its leader bashar al assad. These heinous actions by the assad regime cannot be tolerated. When you kill innocent children, babies, little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many line, beyond a red line, many, many lines. Its very, very possible, and i will tell you its already happened that my attitude toward syria and assad has changed very much. However the president will not say what, if any, action hell take against assad while still pointing blame at the Obama Administration for not take action. Despite cautioning against action himself in 2013 saying there was no upside. Still mr. Trumps new stance and the first real test on his America First doctrine comes as u. S. Officials confirm it
Reporter he said Bashar Al Assad might be a partner in fighting terrorism. Now it seems many groups work with terrorists in the have said they welcome this move. Very surprising development. Frances . Certainly watching the assad regimes response. And any actions taken from it. Nbcs matt bradley in beirut. Thank you. The president explained his decision to order these missile strikes from his Maralago Club where hes currently hosting chinese president xi jinping. Here is what the president had to say. Tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this Vital National security interest of the united stat states. It is in this Vital National security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention, and ignored the urging of the u. N. Security
Conflict . We have full coverage today, friday, april 7th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today. Strike on syria. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a. Welcome to this special edition of today. 7 00 oclock on the west coast on this friday morning. We have a lot to get to, including the u. S. Mill take strikes on syria. But first breaking news out of sweden. A truck has crashed into a Department Store. Several victims are dead. Police are treating this incident as possible terrorists. We have the latest on this. What can you tell us . Were just getting details of this, but in the last few minutes, the swedish Prime Minister saying this indicates a terror attack. Two people dead. Many people injured. Other reports say three many people have been injured. Other reports say three people are dead and there are eye witness accounts of bodies on a pedestrian street, a busy pedestrian street. There are also pictures of a struck that appears to have slamm
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