there is no way to fully win without an enormous commitment of money and troops, which the united states people the american people don t have an appetite for, then you manage the situation. i think that s what we re going to have. the other question is, how much do we have to continue to manage the situation in iraq and syria even with isis on the run right now, it may be that in a couple years we re in a very similar spot in those places. the local authorities are not able the maintain order and we re going to have to maintain some sort of a presence. it will just be managing to make sure it doesn t get worse. thanks, michael. great to talk to you again. thank you. thank you, shep. shepard: more than 200 people in south korea are taken part in a defense drill that involves bombs and a staged poison gas attack in a subway station. again, this is a drill in seoul, south korea.
in 2003, but that again, was an aborted plot, the high command of al qaeda that said they weren t going to go through with that, but al qaeda was developing these kind of poison gas techniques in various camps in afghanistan before 9/11. the concern has been that isis, with all of their resources have also been doing research and development into chemical weapons into poison gas, and they want to get some sort of chemical component through in an attack against the west because they think that will cause panic and propel them back into the global headlines. i can tell you that officials on both sides of the atlantic very worried that we could see a poison gas attack on the streets of the western capital within the next couple of years. paul cruickshank, renee marsh, appreciate the detail sglo. breaking news on the russian investigation and what the fbi was doing to stop it. we ll be right back.
i love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other people s lives. together, we re building a better california. tonight we have alarming new details about isis plots for a poison gas attack as well as an airline bombing and it s raising troubling new questions about the group s capability of staging terror attacks far from
no evidence of civilian casualties. the shocking carnage we see in syria is deeply disturbing to just about everyone, except the leader of that country. the president there. bashir al assad questions whether those scenes are real. perhaps the safety of the presidential palace makes it easy to deny atrocity such as the recent poison gas attack on a rebel held town. nick pa the video of the victims is very difficult to watch. here s nick s story. reporter: this is the world of most syrians. indiscriminate slaughter and even chemical weapons. welcome to the world according to bashir al assad where things that make him look bad simply didn t happen. we don t know whether the dead children, were they dead at
the difference between citizen trump and president trump was enormous. in 2013 when bashar al-assad launched a first major poison gas attack on his own people, donald trump was repeatedly against any action against syria. that s when barack obama was president. what changed? it was a crime against humanity in 2013. it was a crime against humanity a week or so ago. bill: let me reply to that analysis. from my reading of the tweets, you re basing that on your tweet stuff? yes. bill: it s a tweet thing. it s not paper. central point, we messed up iraq. we shouldn t have gotten in there. sadaam was a war criminal. we removed him.