ally to hezbollah though, it might not go big unless the united states goes big. the folks here are still remembering the 2006 clash between israel and hezbollah, which left a lot of devastation, a lot of destruction, they don t want to have that one more time. as you can see, shep, a lot of assessing and reassessing, on all sides, all corners of the globe. backing to you. shepard: greg palkot early this saturday morning in beirut. there is more word from russian s navy that we have word that the russian navy ships have heading to syrian s doorstep in the eastern mediterranean. according to a russian news agency. the u.s. already has a number of destroyers in that region. a kremlin official says the main reason for boosting its naval presence there is to organize a possible evacuation of russians from syria. here at home, the u.s. senate held a special session today to get a jump on the debate over a possible military strike. congress isn t officially back from summer vacation until
a senior military source tells fox news that according to an intelligence intercept, iran has ordered militants to attack the united states embassy in baghdad in the event of a strike on syria. but that source warns that the intelligence is not solid as the source puts it. a separate u.s. official says it s common for iran to order these sorts of attacks and that iran may not have much of an impact because the united states embassy in baghdad is among the most heavily fortified diplomat facilities on the plan netted. still iran has other friends including the militant group hezbollah in lebanon. that s where the united states today issued a travel warning. greg palkot is in lebanon s capitol city of beirut. greg? shep, add the fact the state department ordering all nonemergency personnel out of its u.s. embassy here in beirut lebanon and warning americans thinking of coming to lebanon to stay away. this due to in part some indication that analysts
did you recognize the donald there? officials say it s ferris fink, the same irs official who played mr. spock. he apologized at a house hearing a few months ago. lawmakers said irs workers made those videos for leadership conferences. they tell us the apprentice alone cost us $10,000. now, the meeting of minds in north carolina featuring the dictator there kim jong un and the worm dennis rodman. the two buddies got together during the nba star s second trip to the secretive regime. dennis rodman arrived in north korea a few days ago. the guys watched a basketball game and lil kim hosted the dinner. no word on with rodman brought this up man the american missionary locked up in north carolina in a prison there for hostile acts against the state in a tweet dennis rodman previously encouraged kim to do him a solid and release the man and remember what rodman said when he arrived?
0 jennifer? shepard, by asking congress whether he should strike syria. the president has opened itself up to the advice and potential veto of 535 generals. and now the head of syrians supreme military council is weighing in urging the u.s. to hit hard if it hits at all. we think that there would be very the president has pushed back that the military mission itself is expanding despite reports that the military may consider using air strikes. that report is inaccurate. i believe that when you have a limited proportional strike like this, iraq, not putting boots on the ground, not some long, drawn out affair, not without any risks, but with manageable risks, that we should be willing to bare that responsibility. u.s. defense officials say the only reason to add air strikes to a naval mission by deploying stealth b-2 bombers from bases in missouri among other things would be to go after mobile missile launchers, assad s chemical weapons delivery systems which have been on the
between north and south korea. the countries trying to agree on a date to begin talks that would result in the reopening of a jointly operated industrial complex. today south korea offered to begin high-level talks next wednesday in seoul. pyongyang responded with a request for a preliminary meeting to take place sunday. north korea halted activity at the facility in april following months of it tension in the region. the veteran irs official seen in a now infamous training video as spock from star trek had a new role to play at a congressional hearing in washington. he was playing the role of witness and certainly didn t seem like he was having quite as much fun. ferris fink called before the house oversight committee thursday to testify about a 2010 irs conference in anaheim that cost taxpayers more than $4 million. dana bash has more from washington. reporter: the star witness was the star of this now infamous irs star trek video, spock. total anarchy will occur in