posted jihadist propaganda online. this is a picture now of the scene today. you can see where the truck slammed into that department store. the truck has now been removed. it traveled five blocks along the pedestrian street you c see there killing a maiming people who are going about their ordinary lives on a friday afternoon. ten people, including a child, are still in hospital. four people were killed. yasmin, five blocks in the other direction this way is the stockholm parliament. so comparisons will be made with that attack last month in london. again at near the british parliament and an attack the prime minister here has said is an attack on democracy. the police will be trying to figure out whether this was the intended target, what the motives were and whether this attacker was acting alone or had
the nation the night of the attack and he s saying it again now. he s throwing it down and not saying it wasn t just me being sad that i saw these upset pictures. this is actually in our strategic national interest to have done this. and that is, you know, he is stepping up, doing the opposite of second-guessing himself. he s acerting that there was a real role to play for the united states here on behalf of the united states citizens, not just to react to the chemical attack. the letter was like strangely normal. that was the thing. and the thing about this entire syria attack or bombing, it is not that controversial really. we re talking about something that obama was trying to do. trump did it. but controversial in the tactic that he took, right? very controversial in the tactic. according to washington, that is. and controversial in the problems that it could create in the region. obama tried to build a coalition and get congress behind him to do this exact thing. now trump d
welcome back. i m yasmin vossoughian. this week s chemical attack in syria was one of the worst in the country s history, and it drew s world s attention. heartbreaking images emerged showing children gasping for air, parents clutching their dead children and aid workers trying to save lives. joining us is nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres. thanks for joining me. the russians are now contending this was not a chemical attack. from what you can see. it s hard to think of anything else. some of the symptoms they re showing are very typical for this type of attack. their pupils are very pinpoint and that only happens a couple of times, and it particularly happens when they get that nerve agent attack. on top of that, no other external injuries. it doesn t appear to be any kind
by attack in iraq. that s what led to so many folks fleeing into syria since 2001 when the terrorists were confined on the afghanistan/pakistan border, every time we have intervened in iraq, in libya, it has created more terrorism. and so we really need a justification for what the goal is here. and one would hope we ve learned for the last 15 years of meddling that we ve made matters that are bad worse. what do you make of the reaction as i move on to the other development of this hour and it is a translation of a discussion that happened with rex tillerson, the secretary of state as well as sergey lavrov, the foreign minister from russia, statement in part saying here and i was asking some of our guests earlier this hour the same question, it reads in part here, quote, the minister also noted that the assertions about the syrian armed forces using chemical warfare on april 4th are not consistent with the reality. basically saying this was not a chemical attack. your response to tha
made, in particular with that attack in london. that taking place near the british parliament. this attack just five blocks away from the parliament here in stockholm. the truck had traveled five blocks along the pedestrian street behind me there. there are ten people still in hospital. one of them a child, four dead. richard. keir simmons, thank you so much. the aftermath of the chemical attack in syria, the u.s. its response and what it all means for the ongoing refugee crisis. s built with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that s why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business. which adds fuel to my bottom line. what s in your wallet?