julie: evacuation orders now lifted following a massive gas line fire near detroit. this fire broke out monday night on vacant land. eventually burned itself out. the blaze occurred after a gas transmission line ruptured but they re investigating the cause. no injuries have been reported. jon: new information now on syria with russia s president putin meeting with his syrian counterpart bashar al-assad ahead of a summit and u.n. sponsored peace talks. this after putin and president trump spoke informally last week and agreed to principles on war torn syria. president trump just wrapped up a phone call with president
i m not saying everybody in illegal should be kicked out but the criminals shouldn t have a safe haven. that makes no sense. depends if what you are saying a criminal. somebody with a broken taillight or somebody with violent crimes. they re being turned over to ice. when they are doing something less like a broken taillight. that s a violation of the constitution. let s solve it in a comprehensive way. vladimir putin meeting with syrian president bashar al-assad. might they be brokering an end to the syrian civil war? how the white house is involved. residents in detroit back in their homes after a massive fire forces them to run for their lives. what caused this inferno. excuse me a minute.
level, they would probably impose something like the territorial-based sanctions we ve seen on iran in which case there is no exception to the sanctions. you look at the country, the entire country is sanctioned, not just the government and certain individuals or institutions within it. that s the direction i would expect the trump administration to take. it would align the approach we use on north korea from a sanctions perspective. with the approach we ve used on iran. we treat north korea the same way we treat syria and the trump administration will step that up. julie: the move mostly symbolic. likely not preventing kim jong-un and his defiance in developing nuclear weapons. however, does it set up the u.s. to position itself to take harsher measures against the rogue regime? we ve talked how the president has met with the prime minister of japan and met with south korea and their leaders in order to put the pressure on north korea. the missile defense program, for example. somet
putin as well. connor powell with an update. bashar al-assad during a quick trip to russia yesterday thanked publicly vladimir putin for, quote, saving syria. that according to a russian statement put out earlier this morning. while putin again is backing the u.n. peace talks that are set to take place in geneva here in the next couple of weeks. this comes, however, as russia s military operation in syria both against isis and anti-government troops is beginning to wrap up. putin and assad congratulating themselves publicly for their joint work battling terrorism. that, however, is according to the syrians and russians not just groups like isis but also anti-government forces. at this point the syrian government controls much of the country of syria, although there are still pockets where isis and other rebel groups do control some area. despite the calls by putin and others to sort of work on this
public solution, this negotiated peace for syria, moscow isn t about to see assad and his regime be kicked out or voted out of syria. this is very much a call to opposition groups to accept that the syrian government led by bashar al-assad have won this war and come to the negotiating table to accept that victory. putin has spoken with president trump here just in the last few minutes. they are in agreement to begin this negotiated peace agreement. what more they will discuss and agree on in future talks is still being worked out between the white house and the kremlin. but they do see eye-to-eye for the most part that assad is the seeming to stay in syria in control. the larger question going forward is what type of government will this assad regime lead there. jon: connor powell in our mideast bureau. thank you. julie: stunning new