katai hezbollah is not to be confused with lebanese hezbollah. the administration isn t necessarily taking away yet their major capabilities but they are sending a clear message in targeting a senior commander that the administration will try to degrade their capabilities as well as part of their ongoing efforts, but clearly, the intention here is to try to deter and actually in the wake of those three american service member deaths, hezbollah put out a statement saying they were standing down their operations, would no longer carry out attacks against u.s. forces. now, remember, there have been some 160, 170 attacks against u.s. coalition forces since october 7th. since the war in gaza began. major question now is whether what we re seeing in terms of reaction or these strikes from the u.s. will actually serve to deter because we have seen a handful of strikes since that retaliation on friday. more than 100 strikes against u.s. forces from many different groups. thanks so
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you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across america s skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. cnn has team coverage of this very tense moment in u.s./china relations. i want to start with warren lieberman who is over at the pentagon. what are you learning about the recovery effort that is gong on? i say sum that officials want to get their hands on it as quickly as possible. absolutelily. but the debris, what was left of the payload, the length of three school buses has fallen in 47 feet of water.
giuliani. if he really believes this stuff, you know, he s lost contact with he s become detached from reality. he had to have known he was spreading a big lie, and he continues to spread it to this very day. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom req with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is tuesday, june 14th. 9:00 a.m. in london. 4:00 a.m. in washington. a u.s. house committee is revealing bombshell testimony from members of trump s inner circle, even his own family. the former president refusing to listen to facts, instead embracing the drunken claims of his personal attorney that the election was stolen. all of it leading up to the violent attack on the capitol just weeks after the 2020 presidential vote. a parade of trump s own top aides said the former president was told repeatedly his claims of election fraud were not true. listen to former attorney general william barr. when i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy
headed near a pride event that was happening here at this park and in other parts of downtown here in this town. and they said, you know, they had riot gear with them, including shields and smoke bombs and some weapons, although not firearms. the men were apparently standing outside of the truck when someone spotted them. they all had the same clothes on, so someone said they looked like a little bit of an army, according to a witness. that s how police were alerted that they were in town, and i should mention, this group is familiar to us because they are an offshoot of a group that was at the charlottesville deadly unite the right rally that white supremacist rally in charlottesville that ended in the death of heather heyer who was run over by a man who also subscribed to this group. so this group was a splinter of that after what happened in 2017, the publicity was so high, they changed their name from american vanguard to patriot front. the leader of american vanguard bec