That the vote will be fairly won. As president zelensky was taking power, mr. Giuliani was already engaged in an effort to convince ukrainian officials to announce two sham investigations. Following russias invasion of ukraine in 2014, the United States has stood by ukraine. When the funding for Security Assistance came up for a vote under this roof, 87 of you voted for the aid. President trump did not think the aid was important last year. He ignored you and the direction of congress. As a former chief of police, i think its quite interesting that ambassador bolton categorized the corrupt scheme, the pressure campaign, as a drug deal. We need to hear from ambassador bolton, and i know the america people want to hear from ambassador bolton, as well. On july 25th, President Trump could have endeavored to strengthen the relationship with this new ukrainian leadershiper. Instead, President Trump focused on securing a personal favor. The truth is going to come out. We can and will prove Pr
It did not conduct a dna test. An italian hostage, geovonna lo porto was killed in that same operation. President obama takes full responsibility for the drone strike that killed the two hostages and he expressed sympathy to their families. As a husband and as a father i cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the weinstein and lo porto families are enduring today. I realize there are no words that can ever equal their loss. I know that there is nothing that i can ever say or do to ease their heart ache. And today i simply want to say this. As president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our Counterterrorism Operations, including the one that ined a inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. I regret what happened. On behalf of the United States government i offer our deepest apologies to the families. All right, we are currently the White House Briefing has just begun. Were monitoring that. Well bring that to you. We expect the press secretary wil
Isis allies in algeria murder a french tourist calling it a message of blood to france who has joined the u. S. Led air strikes. Are americans in danger overseas . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer at the United Nations. Youre in the situation room. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com lets get right to the breaking news. U. S. And Coalition Aircraft this afternoon are carrying fresh strikes against isis targets in syria and iraq each as they avenge from the rubble of earlier strikes and under strong pressure from president obama the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution to stop the flow of money and foreign fighters to isis. That follows tough talk to the General Assembly. The president of the United States calling on World Leaders to join the war against a jihadist group, but that hasnt stopped isis allies from beheading a french hostage calling it a message of blood for the french government which has joined the fi
Targets in the latest airstrikes in syria . Reporter u. S. Warplanes struck oil facility producing 300500 bares of oil a day. They tried to avoid destroying the facilities so Friendly Forces could come in and occupy them. Even attorney general eric holder suggested that Ground Troops will be needed to take over these areas following the airstrikes. Well have to look at the impact of the strikes we are taking. I also assume those will not be the only strikes taken against the Khorasan Group. It will take a prolonged period of time for these strikes and ultimately for the Ground Troops that have to come in and deal with these people. Reporter the Free Syrian Army they plan to wont be ready. They do not know who carried out the airstrikes along the turkish border. They say it was not u. S. Or allied war planes. That leaves syrian or turkish planes. It has been reported this morning that saudi arabia when it became the first to joint u. S. Coalition paving the way for the other four arab n
First wave was a flurry of tomahawk missiles launched from air carriers and then followed by jet fighters. And it is a goal to retrain and command the fighters. And the u. S. Is the only nonarab member of the coalition, and sources tell cnn that five countries took part of the operation, saudi arabia, bahrain, jordan, qatar, united emirates, and the support is greater as they learn that the goal of isis is to topplek is you lar governments and control one strong state from aftera ka to the east and beyond. And one big surprise, the u. S. Expand expands the mission in the very first hours and goes it alone to target an al qaeda offshoot operating in syria. The pentagon says the group, khorasan, plotted an attack against the u. S. And interests. They targeted a weapons factory, a Communications Hub and command and control facilities within syria. Wolf . Clearly, carol, this is a major u. S. Led operation. We have our team of reporters and analysts across the globe. They are all standing