This is cnn breaking news. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. Thank you for being with us on this sunday. Breaking news this hour, the white house and the kremlin exchanging threats and warniing o over an alleged chemical attack in syria. President trump confront eed Vladimir Putin directly in a tweet for supporting syrias president , a man trump is calling animal assad. Now moscow is threatening serious consequences against the u. S. If it takes military action. A number of activists groups say helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the town of duma, unleashing toxic gas. The images we are about to show you are disturbing. They are graphic. But they are important to see because the horror that is bombarding Eastern Syria has become truly routine. Saturdays attack has killed at least 48 people, and hundreds have symptoms of exposure. Suffocation, convulsions, seizures, one video obtained by cnn shows the family who couldnt escape this attack. Their lifeless face
An entire community stunned. 15 killed when a truck collided with a bus, many of them just teenagers. And now, what caused the fatal crash. And, tony robbins apologizing. The superstar life coach. What he said about the me too movement. The outrage that caused one fan to take him on in front of thousands. And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. We begin with the horrific attack overseas. And the forceful threat here at home. The pictures coming in. A warning, they are difficult to look at. Children being hosed off, treated after an alleged chemical attack that reportedly killed at least 40. President trump vowing on twitter, a big price will be paid. Slamming syrian president bashar al assad, and calling him an animal. And calling out Vladimir Putin by name. It was one year ago President Trump launched tomahawk missiles into syria, but last week the president suggested the possibility of pulling troops out of that wartorn nation. Well have more on the whi
Im alex marquardt. Nice to see you. Im christine romans. Stories from moscow shortly. First we begin here sources familiar with discussions in the white house tell cnn it looks like President Trump is considering firing Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein in the wake of the fbi raid on trump fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen. Rosenstein has been supervising special counsel muellers russia investigation since Jeff Sessions recused himself. The president has talked about firing all three sessions, rosenstein, and mueller, at various points. The widespread assumption was that federal regulations barred President Trump from firing mueller directly, but yesterday we learned the president does not share that assumption. Listen does he believe he has the power to fire Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders did not suggest that the president that President Trump is, in fact, planning to fire mueller. Cnn has learned that
Be looking for and i will give you my annual bah humbug advice. You will not get deals, but paying interest. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Very iminformation. Im Polo Sandoval in for dave briggs. 5 00 a. M. On the east coast. The busiest land port of entry back open this morning. The Border Crossing at san diego closed for hours after 500 migrants rushed the border from the mexican side overwhelming police bloarricade. Border patrol agents firing tear gas into the crowd and regaining control. Tensions have been mounting since groups started arriving on the mexican side in tijuana a fee weeks ago. Few weeks ago. The Mexican Interior Ministry says those identified will be deported to the home countries. The Ministry Warning far from helping the migrants cause as this is resulting in a Serious International issue on the border. This is inflaming the president s rhetoric on immigration. We have cnns nick watt with more from the san diego port of entry. Reporter
Parliamentary, the net effect was to tell President Trump, you are not welcome in my house. Thank you. A presidency that has seen its fair share of first, this truly was unprecedented. The speaker of the house canceling her invitation to President Trump to deliver the state of the union on january january 29th. This shutdown, lets Work Together. We will welcome you. Speak with a income is much as a surprise to the president. The state of the union speech has been canceled by nancy pelosi because she doesnt want to hear the truth. She doesnt want the American Public to hear what is going on. President trump called the decision a horrible precedent. We will have a response to nancy pelosi, what she is doing to the American People and what she is doing to our constitution is a disgrace. And a letter earlier in the day President Trump called out her claims that security concerns were the basis on which to delay the address. He wrote, i was contacted by Homeland Security in the United State