West. Tonight, the eagleeyed view of how it rattled nerves. And good evening. And its great to have you with us on a very busy thursday night. Im tom llamas, in for david. And we begin tonight with President Trump, speaking publicly for the first time about the scandal involving Stormy Daniels. The president insisting he knew nothing about the 130,000 paid to the adult film star by his attorney, Michael Cohen, to keep her from talking about their alleged relationship more than a decade ago. Its been a day of surprising comments from the president , who tossed the script, you saw it right there, during an event in West Virginia today. President trump launching into a tirade about illegal immigration, making false claims about voter fraud and revealing he wants up to 4,000 National Guard members along the southern border. Abcs senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega leads us off. Reporter President Trump today breaking his silence on Stormy Daniels. On air force one, the president
Dictator assad in response to syrias use of nerve gas against civilians. One year later the world is reacting to reports of yet another devastating chemical attack on civilians. Be warned the images youre about to see are graphic and disturbing. Dozens of civilians including children were killed in a rebel held town near damascus currently under sieged but the russian backed forces. The state department condemned the attack and pinned the blame on russia, saying they upt bear responsibility for the brutal targeting of count is syrians with chemical weapons. Its unclear exactly how the United States respond. Right now American Foreign policy exceptionally ruder is even by the standard of the trump era. Trumps new pick of pompeo has yet to be confirmed and Uber Hawk John Bolton starts his job on monday. The president tweeted about syria only after a typical weekend morning tweet storm attacking the Washington Post and fraizing fox news. In true trumpian fashion he blamed the crisis hes f
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