Inside the palace of Syria's deposed dictator

Days after Syria's longtime president, Bashar al-Assad, was driven from power and the country, NBC News' Richard Engel got an inside look at the palace where Assad lived in luxury.

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Inside the palace of Syria's deposed dictator

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