Also today, re forging an old alliance. As brexit negotiations begin, the uk government travels to india to begin the early work on a future trade deal. And picture perfect . Or is itjust too perfect . What melania trumps First Official portrait tells us about the new first lady. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The pictures are appalling, the pattern all too familiar, and the International Response predictable. Civilians in a rebel held area of syria have been gassed and murdered. It has happened before, with Red Lines Crossed by both sides with impunity. Today, in the seventh year of the syrian civil war, it seems President Assads regime can do what it wants. So far, at least 58 people are known to have died in this latest attack. The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights said the air strikes in Khan Sheikhoun, in the north west of the country, came early in the morning while many were still sleeping. Our Correspondentjames Robbins has the report. He is alive
just a conversation away to going back to threatening one another. what we need to make sure is that they do not have nuclear weapons. the only way that you can do that is by putting a process in place similar to the process put in place in iran, where you have people on the ground testing and checking on a consistent basis and free to do so at any time. the one area from a broader perspective, where republicans in the senate have shown a significant willingness to president this president, at least symbolically, has been in some areas of foreign policy, whether syria and support for nato. there have been places where they have broken with the president of their own party. do you see any opportunities inure committee on the house to work with republicans on any related issues or do you feel things are still too partisan for that? i hope. i just came back from brussels and munich, germany and
efforts in trade in general i think are good good and he s gotten a much better deal with canada and mexico than we had before. i think he ll achieve the same things with the eu and japan. i think he s been better for us in terms of our regulatory policy, and has put much more of a focus than we were putting on when we controlled congress and could have done more too on regulatory issues. i think there are times in foreign policy where he acts impulsively, whether discussions about syria, i think he should take a more deliberative approach. i think he is now taking a more deliberative approach. in the main i think he s made the party better because he won. he beat hillary clinton laura: okay. yeah. i mean do you think, you know i ve been a big fan of yours for a long time. everyone listens to the interviews on the radio with you, no. that do you think you could have beaten hillary clinton in ohio,
you don t even need it? look at you. laura: i asked you whether the party went in a good or bad direction and you said the old guard wouldn t have beaten hillary, you re absolutely right. they have the couldn t win their home state, they couldn t win florida, their key states, mitt rom any couldn t win michigan when he was up against obama. so the new guy comes in and says look i think all your policies have been wrong on trade. he thinks the foreign policy was too intervention any of the in iraq and other parts of the middle east. we ve upset the apple cart there and that got their attention. people are very war weary, whether syria, be they re very war weary, we have 2,000 troops in syria, everyone wants to knock the crap out of isis and trump is like, well okay, why exactly are our guys still getting killed there? i think ultimately he s probably going to be more cautious. but the party s turn was in the right direction under trump and i think you were closer to that
in four hours, i ve reversed all of this. well, that was music to putin s ears. wendy sherman, you were involved in negotiations with vladimir putin as well. you know the u.s./russia relationship. how important it is is not just because of europe but because of russia s influence on north korea, around the world, iran, syria. nothing else really matters coming out of this meeting now that the president has conceded american intelligence to vladimir putin. it s really extraordinary, andrea. i asked early this morning on morning joe which team would donald trump be on, and it s now clear. he s either on his own team or on vladimir putin s team. but this is an america first policy. this is a donald trump first policy. and it s actually quite a devastating interview. i want to go to something, though, that katy tur just spoke to you about.