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newsroom continues now. good morning. thank you so much for joining me, i m carol costello, video you will only see on cnn. we want to warn you, the pictures are disturbing. they re from the syrian capital of damascus where a mass grave has been dug. the area reportedly sustained the highest death toll from last week s alleged chemical gas attack. cnn s frederik pleitgen joins mess now. hi, fred. reporter: hi, carol. yeah, obtained by cnn. so a ground furor, if you will of the chemical weapons attack, among them, a mass grave.
chemical gas attack. here is u.n. ambassador nikki haley followed by national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. the first reaction from russia wasn t, how horrible. it wasn t, how could they do this. it wasn t, how did this happen. it was, assad didn t do it, assad didn t do it. why was that the reaction? that s why you re seeing investigation on russia. that s why you re seeing the fact that we know the evidence on assad, we ve seen it, we know exactly what happened. so we re calling them out. but i don t think anybody is off the table at this point. truly it is amazing that they continue to cover for assad. it s very telling and it s not putting russia in a good light in the international community. with a we should do is ask russia, how could it be, if you have advisers at that airfield, that you didn t know the syrian air force was preparing and executing a mass murder attack with chemical weapons? meanwhile, secretary of state
at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that s the power of and. hello, everyone, i m alex witt here in new york, thanks so much for joining us. here s what s happening right now. there are new calls for sanctions against russia amid growing concern it may have been complicit in syria s chemical gas attack. here s what senator lindsey graham told my colleague chuck todd earlier. you want him to punish russia more for his support of assad. what is something concrete you think he can do in the next couple of months to punish russia for its support of assad? sanction russia for not only interfering in our election, but