President trumps u. N. Ambassador, nikki haley told congress what u. S. Intelligence has observed. They have seen activities similar to preparations of a chemical weapons attack, much like what we saw on april 4th. According to pentagon officials an Aircraft Center which once housed the syrian jet that carried out april chemical attack is once again in use. U. S. Intelligence has also picked up increase in communications, by the Syrian Military unit responsible for chemical weapons. Pentagon officials cautioned the intelligence does not add up to a smoking gun. Still, the white house rushed out a statement. Warning that if the regime of ba sheer al assad conducts another chemical attack he and his military will pay a heavy price. Ambassador haley expanded that to include syrias two main allies. The goal is at this point, not just to send assad a message, but to send russia and iran a message. About the same time haley was making the statement, syrias assad was given a tour of russian a
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Vladimir putin, with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and its clear that they have solved very little. Secretary tillerson emerged with his meeting saying it is a low point between the u. S. And russia on their relationship and there is a low level of trust between the two countries. They cannot even agree on fundamental facts. The Trump Administration is arguing that Bashar Alassad responsible for a chemical attack against its citizens there last week. Sergey lavrov the foreign minister says thats not the case. He says he wants an investigation to figure out who is responsible. We asked him if that investigation comes back and says that assad is responsible, what was his posture towards russia be quick to mark what would the posture of russia toward syria bequest . He refuses to speculate. Secretary tillerson it says his time is ending. We do think it is important that assads departure is done in an orderly way. We are asking at the request of a legitimate government which is a member o