face backlash will survive it. and who are we facing backlash from honestly, it s people who i assume a year or two down the road if they re stopping at a gas station in the thirsty for beer, they re going to still buy the beer. okay but to be fair here, like there are some real serious issues here. you had a florida legislator this week, calling transgender people, mutants and demons and you have kid rock shooting beer cans because he s upset that they have someone who s transgender as a part of their you know, marketing campaign. what s happening is transgender people already filled targeted. they already face an outsized amount of violence. and here we are again. jennings something up for what for what? what is the endgame here, people exist. they should be able to exist in their bodies the way they are, and instead you re hearing these these horrible things about transgender people, and they are going to be targets of violence . the more this sort of thing happens. that i
Happening now. Breaking news. Standoff. Police are facing off with at least one gunman in philadelphia right now. Were told multiple Police Officers have been shot. Stand by for new details. Nosedive. Stock prices tumble as a reliable single for a recession flashes. Is the trump economy going south . Blame game. As the president was watching the markets fall, he was trying to pin the problem on his hand picked Federal Reserve chairman. Tonight, were told mr. Trump is frustrated as he may be losing his economic argument for reelection. And courting moscow. As the House Speaker embraces a nickname for the Senate Republican leader, a nickname the president hates, a new report shows how Mitch Mcconnell helped boost a russian backed project in his home state. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following Breaking News on a very dangerous confrontation between police and at least one shooter in philadelp
force, we really have to give credit to these offices the way they went in there from the moment that they arrive, and they will be sieged by gunfire. you know, you see the rookie officer being guided in by his field training officer and basically telling him where to set up and the moment they even arrived with the car they hit. you know, gunfire is heading their way. so it actually shows that they re in an ambush situation. and one of the things that we learned tactically is when we re being ambushed. we have two separate time and space, so we see that tactical retreat that they do. they set up immediately. they pull out their heavy weapons. there are 15 and you have a brand new rookie police officer with 10 days and here he is engaging in this in this violent, you know, bank robbery that we have multiple homicides. and at the end of the day, you see the way the officer had to pull out and it s almost very rare, but they quickly reassessed themselves. they went in there and try to ha
officers were ambushed. an ambush situation. the officers responded. they were fired upon and the firing has just continued. even now, police warning in a tweet just moments ago that the suspect is still firing. telling people to stay out of the area. and you can see officers. in video that we re not showing because we don t want to reveal the tactical positions of officers. you can see the officers still hiding behind cars. trying to take cover. trying to figure out how to get to the suspect in a situation like this. officers will have to go in and try to figure out how to stop him. it seems that officers are just taking cover. trying to figure out, they re coming up with a plan. the atf is there, the s.w.a.t. team is there.
provided? i think we moved it along a little faster than otherwise it would have been. they re late in getting us the information. we now have it. we now need to make sure it s implemented properly. there is a review process that is contemplated by statute and there are ways in which we can make sure that they are effectively implemented working with our international partners. that s what we expect from the administration. senator mccain and i will be following this very, very closely. i also want to ask you about niger and really the u.s. role in that part of the world, because as we re learning more about what happened with these four americans who lost their lives in that ambush situation in niger, i know your colleagues on the senate armed services committee came out of their briefing yesterday expressing great concern about isis getting a foot hold in this part of the world. what do you see as the american role moving forward combatting terrorism there? the senate foreign r