Director james comey. Is the president s new line of attack going after the Deputy Attorney general, the man now supervising the special counsel leading the russia investigation . This tweet is very different from what we were hearing last month from the white house about rosenstein. He made a recommendation, hes highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. The democrats like him. No one can question Rod Rosensteins yes dengss. He is someone as i mentioned who was confirmed 946. As you mentioned one of the longest serving u. S. Attorneys. Somebody like the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who everybody across the board has unequivocally said, this guy is a man of upstanding character and essentially the Gold Standard at the department of justice. In just a moment well go to the white house for reaction to all this. But first lets go to nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams who has some breaking news. Pete . Reporter well, greta, weve learned from federal investigators that
Those videos but we have them for you and we want to forewarn you that they are graphic. If you feel you have to look away now, if you dont want to see this, please do so. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] these are the people in eastern gutta lying on the floor of this underground shelter. What you see around there appears to be foam. Its a sign of a chemical attack. This is not the first time Chemical Attacks have been reported in syria. The government has been accused of on at least three other occasions in the last six years. The Syrian Government, however, denies being behind this consent. Cnn Senior International k t correspondent Frederik Pleitgen is there life. Get us up to speed on that incident. Reporter all of this happened around 8 30 p. M. Last night when those syrian antigovernment activists say that a hospital dropped some sort of largescale improvised explosive device they say contained that toxic gas. After that, they say many people came down with the respiratory probl