charlie dent, many thanks to both. we re going to talk again in the next hour. so you guys. thanks rosemary. while the u.s. military has says a cannot could carry out precision airstrikes on iran-backed groups and syria. president joe biden ordered the strikes, in there is or on bunkers used by groups tied to iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps. u.s. central command says no one was killed, the strikes are meant to defend and protect american forces from attacks like one on august 15th. when the drone strike targeted a compound run by u.s. back syrian opposition fighters. still to come, ukraine is celebrating independence day. wow locked in a fight for its very existence. we will look at where the war stands right now. six months after russia s invasion.
iranian-backed groups in syria. video obtained by cnn reportedly shows the strikes that come a week after rocket attacks near a military base in syria that was housing u.s. troops. let s bring in cnn s oren lieberman. what are you hearing from officials at the pentagon. the u.s. attacked a series of bunkers in northeast syria. these bunkers according to u.s. central command used as ammo warehouses and storage facilities and logistics support by these iranian-backed groups. the military was looking at a group of these bunkers, 11 of them, as the target here. bunkers not used specifically in the august 15th attacks, but that in general were used for support for these iranian-backed militias. according to a spokesman, they were surveilled for hundreds of hours before the strikes. in the end, that spokesman says the military attacked nine of those because there were few people near a couple of those bunkers that meant that it wasn t an appropriate time to carry out the strike.
the u.s. seems willing to go after iran militarily when it deem it is necessary despite hopes to try to get back into the nuclear deal. is it possible to keep these things apart? i have to tell you that and chuck knows this well, the department of defense, when our troops are attacked, we have to respond. on august 15th, iranian drones attacked our forces in syria. fortunately, no one was hurt but because of that attack, i think president biden made the right decision to basically go at those that were responsible. and those responsible are militias that are supported by the iranian revolutionary guard. so i think this was the right response at the right time. i also want to talk about your very important work. this veterans issue, a
no. you know, i feel pretty good about how those contests will come out. senator elizabeth warren, always great to see you. thank you. we want to go back to phil mattingly at the white house. we just learned that the first lady tested positive once again for covid? another rebound case? that s right. president biden caught covid, then shortly thereover after taking paxlovid had a rebound case. now the first lady is experiencing the same thing. kate bennett breaking the news that jill biden has tested positive again for covid-19. he s not experiencing symptoms. back on august 15th, they tested positive. she stayed in south carolina, later rejoined the president in delaware. she s in rehoboth beach where the president came back to.
and they had been stored in an unsecure room at trump s beast house. the letter makes clear that despite trump s claim that he s being mistreated by the justice department and he s a victim of political prosecution, the biden administration has given trump a great deal of differential treatment. for weeks, trump asserted that he may want to assert executive privilege over some of these documents. finally, concerns from the intelligence community and the fbi prompted the archives to let the fbi examine the documents. and that led to the criminal investigation, and the unprecedented search of mar-a-lago just over two weeks ago. evan perez, cnn, washington. the u.s. military says it carried out precision airstrikes in syria, targeting groups linked to iran s revolutionary guard. president biden joined the strikes on bunkers in syria. u.s. central command says no one was killed. the strikes are meant to defend and protect american forces to protect against attacks on august 15th, drone str