Nikki Haley: Trump saved lives in Syria

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley credited President Trump for preventing a chemical weapons attack in Syria after the White House issued a statement Monday warning Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“I can tell you that due to the president’s actions, we did not see an incident,” Haley told the House Foreign Affairs Committee during a hearing Tuesday. “What we did see before was all of the same activity that we had seen prior, for the April 4 chemical weapons attack, and so I think that by the president calling out Assad, I think by us continuing to remind Iran and Russia that while they choose to back Assad, that this was something we were not going to put up with.”