alongside syrian pilots six day war and first nuclear reactor. what is new how they learned to get around international sanctions and work on these horrible, horrible criminals which kill indiscriminately. martha. martha: they said they are not using chemical weapons. they remember what happened the last time they did, the trump administration sent in missiles shortly after that. these are chlorine bombs. and chlorine weapons. describe to us the nature of what they do and the damage that they do, ben. martha, as i said. they are indiscriminate. i have spoken to many survivors lost entire families. they attack children first. they have the most susceptible lungs. they get into the lungs and start dissolving them. the nerve agents they have used in the past the saran gas has hit the nervous system excruciating painful. many mothers and fathers have to watch their children die they are the ones go
hitler who didn t use chemical weapons. reporter: ignoring history. when you come to saran gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. reporter: spice e er attempto clarify. he brought them into to the holocaust center. i understand that. i m saying in the way that assad used them and went into towns and dropped them down on innocents. reporter: and apologizing in a written statement. there is no explaining it. it is to say, especially this week, it was not something was appropriate. it was insensitive. reporter: the blunder coming at the beginning of passover and parki sparking speculation. it is unfortunate and we should never have comparisons with hitler. ever. it is obvious spicer needs to
investigation. what are the chances of the conclusive investigation actually being carried out, given the fighting that is going on? reporter: well, there is a preside president, wolf. after the 21st of march attack, that attack left hundreds of people dead. the united nations did conduct an investigation. it was an area where there was active fighting, but they managed to have a daily five-hour cease-fire to allow the u.n. inspectors to do their job. now, they were able to interview victims, take blood and urine from the affected. and they did come out with a report. it concluded that saran gas was used in that instance, but what is significant is that the report did not lay any blame. it just laid out the scientific facts. and, in fact, the report
has despicable as hitler who didn t even sink to using chemical weapons. quote, hitler didn t even sink to using chemical weapons. what did you mean by that? when you come to saran gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. uh-huh. sean spicer spent much of tuesday afternoon on the telephone apologizing for that. there was more, we edited down. he made a public apology on cnn this morning and there was more. i made a mistake. there s no other way to say it. i got into a topic that i shouldn t have. and i screwed up. it s a very holy week for both the jewish people and the christian people. and this is not to make a gaffe and a mistake like this is inexcusable and reprehensible. on a professional level it s disappointing because i have let the president down. and so on both a person and professional level, that will
continue right after a quick break. wrol olf, thank you so much. i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. the u.s. response to a toxic massacre in syria. the commander in chief reacting to one of the worst chemical bombings in history. and for the first time, the president of the united states has placed the blame on syrian president bashar al assad. as we tell you this story of the atrocities in syria, the pictures are graphic. barrel bombs with saran gas, a nerve agent dropped from the skies killing dozens, including young children.