news, the u.s. launches break strikes in he ran in syria, in retaliation for the killing of three u.s. soldiers and jordan. more information from correspondence and the pentagon, white house at this hour, wolf blitzer situation room, i am mark in for wolf. this is cnn breaking news. that s get back to this breaking news, u.s. military retaliating for a deadly attack against a u.s. base and jordan, airstrikes underway in iraq and syria against targets tied to the rain iran backed targets, we are getting new information as we speak, oren liebermann, news of the strikes breaking just moments ago, what we know of the strike? we expect them to be more powerful in many ways, central command, a number of targets the were struck, and what was used to carry out the operation, let me read this out from u.s. central command. at 4 pm eastern time, if every second, forces conducted strikes and iraq and syria against the revolutionary guard and affiliated literary groups, striking
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doubt, not just in the united states, but internationally it s obviously early, but do you think that comparison that again, the white house is clearly aware of fits the current moment yeah i mean, look every generation, every president uses a historic anniversary like the one we have this weekend, d-day of d-day to make points about the present day. and for reagan, that was a question of his approach to what he portrayed as a very good versus evil struggle with the soviet union, echoing world war ii by cs echoes of world war ii in our present conflicts with one of our allies in world war to russia. and i think that he pretty skillfully draw upon that. i ll tell you, white house speech writers, democratic republican, they really look up to that reagan speech the pond to hoc speech.
ways has, has come to an end. but i think he s made some very strong speeches. they re connecting that history to how he sees the present challenges of today. so to that point, as he was arriving in france, the white house had to respond to that wall street journal piece that was entitled quote behind closed doors, biden shows signs of slipping. it evoke questions about his age how well do you think he did to counter that perception on this trip yeah. i mean, look, i thought these were very strong speeches by biden there is no question. you don t need some secret republican sources which is largely what that wall street journal piece fit to tell you that biden has visibly age to a certain extent over the last four years at a very different question. then the question of whether he is mentally up to the job. i ve done a lot of reporting on this, of course, are constantly checking this,