night for all 100 members of the united states senate on the situation in north korea, and the administration is taking new steps against syria after the sarin gas attack on civilians earlier this month. today the white house imposed sanction on 271 employees of the syrian government agency it said produces chemical weapons. those sanctions freeze any assets those employees may have in the united states. we re joined now by john mclaughlin, former acting director of the cia, a 36-year veteran of the cia. john mclaughlin, this is the area where donald trump has had some successes, at least from the public s view of things. for example, on the action he took in syria, the military action, the poll shows 62% support that action. 33% oppose that action. let s start first with your scorecard of how the president has handled the situation with syria. well, the cruise missiles strike was popular, but they always are popular, unless there
place leading up to the u.s. response. united states fabricated the whole story. whether they are dead at all. ainsley: were those children dead at all. pete: he is saying they could have been child actors. ainsley: we interviewed someone on our show after that saying he had had lived through one of those sarin gas attack. watched his family members die. pete: folks who have reacted to the moab in afghanistan have said this is a tactical issue in afghanistan. of course it is. it s. also sends a clear message around the world to syria, to bashar al assad. we are willing to use chemical weapons to. ainsley: some of those kids are 1-year-old: they shouldn t they wouldn t
videos now. those dead children, were they dead at all? yes, they were. children died in the sarin gas attack committed by assad. assad and his wife and children are living in an alternate universe. peyton walsh takes uttus there. reporter: this is the world of most syrians, rubble, bombs, indiscriminate slaughter, even chemical weapons. welcome to the world according to bashar al assad where things that make him look bad simply doesn t didn t happen. we don t know whether those dead children, were they dead at all? who committed the attack if there was attack? reporter: it s nothing new for a man who was an eye doctor trained in london yet has found himself a hated dictator. in his 17-year reign, from
paula, thank you. new overnight cnn is learning u.s. mill tar and intelligence officials enter cemented commune kagtss between syria s experts between the gas attack in idlib, they have helped confirm syria s role in the deadly bombing, we re told the u.s. did not have prior attacks, and there are no intercepts showing russian military officials communicating about that chemical attack. the president s slew of u-turns, live in washington this morning to you. reporter: good morning. let s start with what the president had to say yesterday. it would be wonderful as we were discussing just a little while ago if nato and our country could get along with russia.
discussing preparations for last week s sarin gas attack. it still remains if they will come up with similar intercepts indicating that the russians were involved. number one. nato is obsolete. i complained about it a long time ago. i m glad he is squaring up philosophy with reality. from nato to china. this is a president doing a lot of 180s. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. welcome viewers around the world and under. it is new day. up first, the president doing a 180 on nato, syria, russia, china and economic policy. we will explore what is fueling the breakneck pace of shifting positions. and the pentagon telling cnn they have new evidence connecting the syrian government to the gas attack last week