good morning. i m victor blackwell. this is first of all and today we re starting in the middle east. iran is condemning airstrikes by the usa military in syria and iraq. the strikes are in retaliation for the deaths of three american soldiers killed in a drone attack in jordan almost a week ago. president biden says this is only the start. cnn s katie bolillis is in washington. let s start with you and tell us about the targets. reporter: the u.s. military striking 85 targets associated with both iranian-backed militia as well as also used by iran s own forces. these targets included everything from intelligence centers to rockets and missiles and other munitions facilities, to command and control hubs to logistics facilities. now, at this point in the coming hours and days the u.s. military will be doing what is known as a battle damage assessment, to lean on u.s. intelligence to try to independently verify the toll these strikes took, both the damage that they caused t
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not excited about that, but that is only the similarity that me and the other guy. half david plouffe, palmieri, they can both. that is all for all in tonight. good evening, alex, where are you? did you say, where am i? yeah, you re not here. it s not the dark cone of last night. lastyou know what it, is it s dp kornacki and the big board. all the board is there. i m here, come visit. i m isa. all right. thank, you my friend. and thank you to you at home for joining me this hour. donald trump handling winning the iowa caucus last night, was not that much of a surprise. but this, this was. i don t know if you know, but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020, do you believe that it was on us or not, 80% 82% said it was not. now, before we go on further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inauguration crowd or is square footage in his new york city apartment, donald trump is inflating the numbers again. the real number is 66%. nbc
now. where are you? good evening. did you say where am i? yeah. you re not here. it s just that you know what it is it s steve kornacki and the big board. oh, the board is here. i got it. so i m here. come visit. i miss you. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. donald trump handling winning the iowa caucus last night was not that much of a surprise. but this this was. i don t know if you know but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020. do you believe it was honest or not? 82% said 82% said it was not. now, before we go on any further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inauguration crowd or his square footage in the new york city apartment, donald trump is inflating the numbers again. the real number is 66%. nbc news constructed entrance polls of voters as they headed into those iowa caucus sites, and 66% of caucus goers polled said they did not believe joe biden legitimately won the 2020 elect
Good friday morning, everybody. I am erica hill with rahel solomon. Poppy harlow is off today. Nice to be friday. Isnt it . We are here for that. Five things to know for this friday. June 2nd, the Debt Ceiling Bill on its way to President Bidens desk and once signed the threat of a u. S. Default is off the table until after the 2024 election. Also, new questions this morning about that partial Building Collapse in davenport, iowa. Just days before the wall came Crashing Down an Engineering Firm said, quote, bricks appear ready to fall imminently. You can see the gap in the new pictures. Three people are still missing. The former president now responding to reporting that they have him on tape. The Denver Nuggets one step closer to making franchise history after beating the miami heat, they are up taking the first game in the nba finals. An Eighth Grader crowned the new National Spelling bee champ. We will put him to the test when he joins us live on cnn this morning which starts right