Firing even as ambulances arrived to try to respect the injured. President trump tweeted and said in part, horrible and cowardly attack on innocent and defenseless worshippers. The world cannot tolerate terrorism. Patrick marky joins us over the phone and said he is the roadwayers bureau chief in cairo. What more do we know about the attack . So far we have 235 people kill and 109 wounded. This is the deadliest attack in their history. They told us that four groups surrounded the mosques and enough people came out and opened fire and set fire to cars and blocked the road. There was a lot of chaos. And thats the remote area. This is a shift also to tell the mosque is there anything distinctive about this area or has there been turmoil or anything that would have precipitated Something Like this . This is in the area with one of the few areas that still has a foothold after the fall of so many cities in iraq and syria. They continued with the armed forces and continued to attack and trie
Representing the first whistleblower that this person also works in the Intelligence Community, that this person claims to have firsthand knowledge about some of the interactions some of the accusations that the first whistleblower brought up in their complaint that they filed with the Inspector General. And we also know that this person, the second person, has spoken to the Inspector General, and we had seen previously the Inspector General said that they had corroborated some of the things that were made in the first claims. Thats one of the reasons why they had they believed that the claims were not only credible but an urgent concern that deserved to be notified to the intelligence communities in capitol hill. Is it an issue, does it matter, that the first whistleblower and now the second whistleblower share the same attorney . No, i dont think it really matters. I think what matters most of all is that you have somebody who is coming forward and claiming to corroborate what these
Articles of impeachment . Democratic candidates announce their critical cash hauls. Who raised the most money . Who raised the least . And which candidate is dropping out of the race . Man of his word . President trump offers new praise for north koreas kim jongun, despite new threats from the dictator. Tonight, newly released propaganda video may belie kims frustration. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. A new twist in the ukraine scandal at the heart of President Trumps impeachment. National security website just security is reporting its review of unredacted Trump Administration documents found that a white house budget official told the pentagon that the order to freeze u. S. Military aid to ukraine came directly from President Trump. Democrats are seizing on the new revelation with Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer calling it a devastating blow to gop plans for the impeachment trial. And House Speaker nancy pelosi just tweeted moments ago, blasting the president sayi
Leaders of iran and north korea testing President Trump. Iran today, declaring it is prepared for war if necessary, vowing its military is Strong Enough to break the United States. The escalating tensions heating up during a dramatic 48hour siege at the u. S. Embassy in baghdad by an iranianbacked militia. Showing the extent of damage inflicted on the u. S. Embassy as more u. S. Military members are on their way. The world will witness, quote, a new strategic weapon, one feared to be a nuclear weapon. The regime also dismissing any talk of denuclearization. Here is how richard haas explained it to the New York Times. Quote, after three years of no international crises, mr. Trump is, quote, facing one with iran because he has rejected diplomacy and another with north korea, because he has asked too much of diplomacy. As cnn Kaitlan Collins reports, despite these threats, President Trump seems preoccupied with impeachment. Reporter President Trump is airing the same 2019 grievances about
Paso, texas, tomorrow trying to push border wall funding and his reelection. What are he and the white house doing to avoid shutdown . Ana, theres no indication that the president or his team are trying any new routes to get democrats to sign off a proposed bill to not only keep the government open but sign his version. He went after them, saying therch acting irrationally. I should point out his acting chief of staff, mick muchlt lvaney took to the morning talk show tas, making it clear there are a number of possibilities on the table. He did not rule out a second Government Shutdown or executive action on behalf of the president to secure funding for his border wall that way. He did also say a deal was still possible. Although that seems unlikely at this point, there are law measurings out there who are optimistic and holding on to hope. Listen to this. I certainly hope were not headed for another shutdown. I think the president has been clear and the republicans in the house have ce