Who will join me live on the show in a minute. Why President Trump is trying to get rid of another. Rod rosenstein, in 48 hours from now, the same day as the blockbuster hearing on capitol hill. Reporting on the political and legal fallout. We wait to bring you the president s remarks from the u. N. Right now, we are looking at what the Supreme Court nominee had to say, Brett Kavanaugh, fighting back about sexual misconducazandi] assault in an 3 Unprecedented Television interview. Watch. Im note1 going to let false accusations drive us in this 1i. We are looking for a fair process where is7 can be heard d defend my integrity, my lifelong record, my lifelong record of promoting equality for omen, im not going anywhere. So, thats Brett Kavanaugh there. I want to bring innr kristinnr welker at the white house. We talked about this. The strategy moving from defense to going on offense, right . Thats right. I think you hit the nail on the head. This is, essentially taken from out of thexd p
The terms. The president has managed to avoid attacking Brett Kavanaughs accuser and were told hes bragging about the positive response to his restraint. And fourth quarter, the fired fbi director james comey thinks the special counsel may be in the last phase of his russia investigation. How soon will Robert Mueller make his final play . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following two breaking stories including Michael Cohens cooperation with prosecutors. Abc news is reporter that the president s former lawyer has been interviewed by the special counsels team for hours and hours on the president s russia dealings, possible collusion and whether anyone from the trump camp spoke to cohen about a pardon. Also breaking Brett Kavanaughs awe caccuser, Christine Blasey ford, wants to testify next week if the terms are fair, but ruling out a monday hearing. Ill talk t
Them now. We have Fox Team Coverage, the decision to take at the iranian general responsible for american deaths. Benjamin hall has the latest on the new round of airstrikes. What have you got . Reporter everyone was waiting for some retaliation from iran. There was a possible second us strike. It is not yet been confirmed but if true it took place just north of baghdad, two car struck by an airstrike, one containing a finance operator of the shia militia and someone close to Qasem Soleimani. The architect of irans foreign aggression, many of their terrorist acts responsible for the deaths of hundreds of americans. That took place early this morning. Qasem soleimanis convoy hit by a drone with the head of the militia that led the attack, the storming of the us embassy earlier this week. Qasem soleimani was said to be developing plans for further attacks against americans in the region. Iran said it will retaliate and the state department has told americans in iraq to leave immediately.
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Multiple usual officials and the Prime Ministers of khcanada and the uk are all now saying intelligence indicates the passenger plane that crashed in iran wednesday morning killing all 176 people on board was shot down by iran. Possibly accidentally. The british Prime Minister saying minutes ago there was a, quote, body of information showing an iranian air missile brought down that passenger plane. Brand new video sent to cnn report s s to show a missile fi into the sky and striking an object right around the the time that Ukraine Airlines flight crashed. Cnn has not independently verified the authenticity of the video. Another new video showing the fiery moment the flight hit the ground just minutes after taking off from the tehran airport. Our correspondents are covering the story from every angle including on the ground in iran. Well start with alex with new reporting about how the plane full of civilians may have been the shot down by accident.
About targeting certain usa asset as revenge is for our ridding world with of our terrorist leader who would just kill an american and badly wounded many others not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime including recently hundreds of iranian protesters. He was already attacking our embassies and preparing additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a warning that if iran strikes any americans or American Assets, we have targeted 52 iranian sites representing the 52 american hostages taken by iran many years ago, some of very high level and important to iran and the iranian culture. And those target as and iran itself will be hit very fast and very hard. Usa wants no more threats. A clear message to an american enemy now my open is coming up in just a few minute bees first were joined live by president Trumps National security advisor robert obrien. And ambassador obrien thanks so much for being on justi