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00:00ONLY CONFRONTING, BUT QUITE AGGRESSIVE STATEMENTS. PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID THAT HE CALLED PRESIDENT ASSAD A BEAST, AND ANIMAL, AND ALSO THE COMPARISONS OF ASSAD TO HITLER'S BY SECRETARY PRICE, THAT HITLER'S NEVER USED TO THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS. DO YOU THINK IT IS DIPLOMATIC? IS THE RHETORIC LIKELY TO CHANGE? >> WELL, I THINK THAT THE PERSPECTIVE FROM THE UNITED STATES, SOME ORDERED BY THE FACTS THAT WE HAVE, ARE CONCLUSIVE. THE REASON CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK CARRIED OUT IN SYRIA WAS PLANNED AND IT WAS DIRECTED AND EXECUTED BY SYRIAN REGIME FORCES AND WE ARE QUITE CONFIDENT OF THAT. THIS IS JUST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF A USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS BY THE ASSAD REGIME. NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR USE ON MORE THAN 50 OCCASIONS OF CHLORINE BOMBS AND CLUSTER BOMBS , AND OTHER TYPES OF WEAPONS THAT ARE INTENDED TO MEAN -- MAIM AND KILL IN THE MOST TERRIFIC OF WAYS. I THINK THE CHARACTERIZATION IS ONE THAT PRESIDENT ASSAD HAS

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Tillerson Says U.S. Confident Syria Executed Gas Attack

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at a news conference about the chemical attack in Syria. (Source: Bloomberg)

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