hit a base housing u. s personnel. they believe that drone was iranian. it made u. s forces quickly struck back targeting facilities used by iran s revolutionary guard, so, says u s officials say u. s officials this morning cnn got reaction from the white house. we don t seek a war with iran. we re not looking for an armed conflict with that country or another war in the region. we do seek to protect our mission in syria. all of this is unfolding as president biden is set to meet with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau. we are alive in ottawa. we re waiting to hear from the president himself. on this attack in syria. also just a few minutes ago. you can see him there in the back of him. that is trump attorney evan corcoran, arriving at a washington dc courthouse. he just entered the building. he is going to testify today before a grand jury in the mara lago classified documents probe and he will do so without the protection of attorney client privilege. first that we
john berman. we have new developments on the u. s contractor killed by a drone strike in syria. we are now seeing video of an iranian military facility engulfed in flames. this is after president biden authorized a retaliatory strike retaliation. from what the u. s says was this iranian backed one way drone attack an attack that killed an american contractor and wounded five u. s service members. president biden is in canada this morning. we re waiting to hear from him on all this. also at this moment, a top lawyer for donald trump, you can see him there. evan corcoran. he is inside washington, dc courthouse and there is no attorney client privilege protection. corcoran is testifying before a grand jury investigating the former president s handling. of classified documents first, though the deadly flare up of hostilities in syria overnight scene as natasha bertrand at the pentagon following this for us new information, natasha. yeah, john. so we are told from a u. s official
hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom. boris sanchez, everyone boris great to be with you. i m jessica dean and we begin with breaking details another major legal blow to former president donald trump. on the day his attorney had to testify before a federal grand jury. in one case. we re learning. in a separate case, his former top administration aides have now been ordered to testify, and that includes his past white house chief of staff mark meadows. this specific investigation is the federal criminal. probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election loss. cnn senior crime and justice reporter caitlin poland s is with us live standing outside of the department of justice on a rainy day. caitlin tell us so much about this development, the claim of executive privilege by the former president thrown out by this judge. right so this is another attempt where donald trump was coming into court secretly behind closed doors and trying to say that people around him sh
when he delivered his testimony on the hill. did he know about the attack? and if so, why didn t he inform the congress about it to refer you to general carrillo? thank you, jennifer. general writer. what kind of drone was this iranian drone. and how fast was it flying when it came towards the base and did it in the end, actually crash into the base or did it a fire? it s missiles at the brace. thanks jennifer. so we re still assessing some of those pieces. i don t have that information to provide. other than we are very confident that based on the forensics based on the intelligence analysis that we ve done that it was of iranian origin crash into the facility or fire a weapon at the facility did not fire a weapon to my knowledge. um if you say the radar was working, and if you were tracking it, and drones don t fly that quickly. um how is it that it was able to crash
were targeted by the u. s or affiliated with the iranian revolutionary guard. one american citizen was killed. six more were injured. do you and the department and secretary of defense hold iran responsible for the death of an american citizen? look, we know that these groups are sponsored by iran, so iran certainly plays a role in terms of ensuring that this type of activity doesn t happen. so is he runs responsible for the death of an american citizen or not? look iran certainly again backs these groups and by default, therefore has a responsibility to ensure that they are not contributing to insecurity, instability but clearly they continue to do that. thank you, jennifer. let me let me go questions. make it quick. so yesterday, general carrillo was on the hill delivering his testimony. according to the d o d statement. the attack happened at 1 38 local type, so that was before prior to his testimony