Then, renewed calls for congress to take action on authorization of military force. Well talk to one of the congressman demanding that. Plus, new political attack ad highlighting isis. President obama and senator shaheen seem confused about nature of the threat. Not me. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Its being described by the pentagon as only the beginning. Part of the expanded Bombing Campaign which began with an extensive attack on isis in syria last night and now includes strikes on a different group. President obama announced this morning that five arab countries are participating in the operation. A key victory looking to tout its broad support, particularly from sunni nations. We are joined in this action by our friends and partners, saudi arabia, jordan, bahrain and gitar. Well, bahrain, jordan, saudi arabia and the uae all confirm they have flown missions in saudi arabia. On the sidelines of the u. N. General assembly in new york, the pres
Authority . Again, you dont have an explicit authorization from congress on the air strikes, on what were doing now. What congress voted on was arming syrian rebels. The question im asking, is the Legal Authority to go into syria now, to do air strikes now, based on this idea of an imminent threat, is that how youre coaching it to congress . With respect to this group of al qaeda operatives and this group of al qaeda veterans, yes, they pose a threat to the United States and to our partners, and we were watching them conduct what we determined to be advanced stage plotting. And the president s been clear under current authority, he has the authority to go after, take that fight to disrupt al qaeda operatives and their associated forces to disrupt that plotting. Hes also been quite clear hes got the authority he needs to take this fight to isil, but this is not americas fight alone. What you saw last night was five arab nations working in a Broad Coalition to take that fight to isil und
An africanamerican woman who spoke out against Police Brutality is arrested in a traffic stop and later found dead in her cell. Police say it was a suicide, but her family doesnt believe it. Will dash dam video shed new light . Loose cannon donald trump leading in a brand new poll. And once again, driving debates stirring up controversy by insulting the parties former president ial nominee senator john mccain saying the former prisoner of war is not a hero. Has trump gone too far this time . We want to welcome our viewers from around the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Were following disturbing new details emerging right now about Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez the 24yearold man who opened fire on two u. S. Military centers in chattanooga, tennessee, killing four marines and a u. S. Sailor. Sources are telling cnn he was bipolar and depress and abusing drugs and a young man is revealing what he thought of isis. We are following the Obam
We are live there. Wildfires in california prompting thousands of evacuatio evacuations and relenting winds. A key player of the inquiry. Mary ma mary yovanovitch. Sondland was supposed to appear this week but blocked for doing so by the Trump Administration. Sondland was subpoenaed as al result. First, i want to focus on ambassador yoyanovitch. She was removed back in may months before her schedule. Yovanovitchs tenure was cut short. Yovanovitchs former colleague came to her defense. They also say it would be out of character for her to engage in partisan politics. There is another key player in all this w. Fiona hill. She plan to say that Rudy Giuliani and Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland circumvented the National Security council to pursue a shadow policy on ukraine. A white house official adding hills appearance stoke fears among close the the president. Given her role overseeing russia and ukraine policy throughout her time working for the administration. Lets talk all about this and
chanted death to america and death to israel. the ayatollah called them the slogans of the iranian people and the position of the entire nation. lea gabrielle is live. the unites nations security council endorses the deal yesterday. that s right. a unanimously passed a resolution that starts a three-emergency clock for the u.n. nuclear watchdog to verify that iran has taken steps. if iran is not compliant economic sanctions will be lifted and there s a mechanism to snap them back. president obama calling on lawmakers for their support. there s a broad international consensus around this issue. not just among the international community but also among experts in nuclear proliferation and my working assumption is that congress will pay attention to that broad-based consensus. congress does have 60 days to review the deal, but lawmakers on both sites of the aisle