and cruise missiles, and we should note that two of those wounded service members from the strike on thursday were treated on site but three additional service members and that u. s contractor were actually medically evacuate, evacuated to coalition medical facilities in iraq, poppy don really significant overnight, natasha. thank you very much for that reporting from the pentagon. don thank you were very lucky to have our military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton to walk us through that. colonel thank you so much. listen so the first strike happening in the northeast and then just south of that is where biden authorized that strike back again. can you tell us what happened? yeah, don. good morning. it s still basically with the first strike at the iranians conducted the iranian proxies conducted. i should say i want to. we re looking at here is in the northeastern part of syria. the us maintains a major presence with british forces. so this is a vestige of the wor
services committee, and we just heard testimony yesterday from centcom about the iranian threat. so to see these drone strikes, um you know was really concerning given what we ve seen iran doing with their drones across the world, not just in syria, but certainly supplying russia and the ukraine war. um, and so i think what we saw with the response by the united states as promised from the president and the secretary of defense, it was measured. it was not meant to be escalatory, but certainly you cannot attack us service members and u. s contractors and have that gohan meant with equal force. thank you for responding to that congresswoman. yeah and if we could also talk to you about your significant hearing last night on the chinese continued treatment of the weaker muslim minority population in xinjiang province at the u. n. has now called crime, a crime against humanity, both the trump and by the administration s deem it genocide. though china denies
face of any additional iranian attacks. testifying on capitol hill thursday, carrillo said that iranian proxies have carried out attacks on us forces in the middle east 78 times since the beginning of 2021. so what iran does to hide its hand as they use iranian proxies. that s that s either waves or rockets to be able to attack our forces in either iraq or syria. are these considered acts of war? by iran. they are being done by the iranian proxies is what i would tell you. congressman biden administration is carried out multiple airstrikes against militias affiliated with iran following previous attacks on u. s facilities in the region. biden s first known military action was a strike in february, 2021 after rocket attacks on us troops in iraq. now adding to this concern is yet another thing that parrilla, the commander of us central command, told congress last week, which is that today, iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the middle east with thousands of ba
retirement age by the end of the year, more than a million people turned out improvements just stuck to his economic argument that he knows best. and ultimately, what we re seeing from the street is that people disagree with that. basket wins it wild start to the sweet 16 for the lead. gaga survives going to the elite eight. good morning. everyone welcome in its top of the hour. let s start with the deadly drone attack on u. s troops in syria, shall we? the pentagon says in iranian made drone killed an american contractor and wounded five u. s service members after it struck a base in northeast syria. president joe biden, responding with airstrikes against groups affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in syria, and you can see ambulances
overnight, trump raised the possibility of quote. death and destruction, close quote that could happen if he s indicted with the former president. continuing on to write quote. no crime has been committed our senior political correspondent anchor of inside politics on ankara fascinating specializing on tiktok, which we ll get to in a moment. abby phillip is here. good morning. good to see you. great to be here with you guys. abby. death and destruction. given the history and the background of the death and violence on january 6th and the insurrection. why is the president saying this former president, he doesn t see any downside to upping the ante? and why would he every time that he s escalated the rhetoric the response on capitol hill from republicans, even the ones who are typically more measured about trump has been to circle the wagons around him, so these things really feed on themselves when trump sees the reaction to one post, the previous one