i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for joining us. new today, iraq is now summoning a top u.s. diplomatic official in protest of a barrage of punishing u.s. air strikes in the middle east. the u.s. says those strikes hit 85 targets linked to iran s islamic revolutionary guard quds force and affiliated militia groups in iraq and syria. the strikes a response to a drone attack in jordan which killed three american soldiers on sunday. iraq is claiming the explosions that just happened involving the u.s. killing 16 people, including civilians. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin says the strikes are just the beginning of the u.s. response. iran says the u.s. has made a strategic mistake, while iraq and syria say the u.s. actions could inflame more conflict in the region. cnn has teams around the globe covering all of these developments. let s go first to cnn s ben wedeman in jordan. ben, these strikes were sudden, devastating. how are officials on the ground? how are thos
plus that is the road, but check this out, it is washed out just over here. more destruction as relentless rain pounds parts of the northeast. and for the first time today, u.s. senators get a classified briefing on artificial intelligence. what they could learn about bots and national security. good morning. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. we begin with president biden preparing to address fellow alliance leaders as the two day that nato summit gets under way. biden s major win overnight. melissa bell is live at the summit with the latest. and this win coming at the 11th hour here for president biden. what do we expect him to say? reporter: he was wrangling until the very last minute that brought to an end the deadlock that had for a year prevented sweden from becoming the member of nato as it wished to do. and what it means is that essentially securities architecture of europe is transformed with now not just finland with the huge border it shares with
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