we first learned about these strange attacks, these strange symptoms with u.s. personnel in accounting. cbs radio first to report american diplomats were reporting incidents which caused a variety of physical symptoms. super vague in the initial reporting that was very unclear what types of incidents were happening here. the state department was totally bafflingly vague and confusing on the subject. we now thanks to good reporting on the subject, we now know it s as scary and weird as it seemed before we knew the details. we now know there are 21 medically confirmed cases, some involve permanent hearing loss or traumatic brain injury. yesterday the associated press published some scary details on the attacks. let me read to you straight from the a.p. story. quote, the blaring, grinding noise jolted the american diplomat from his bed in a havana hotel. he moved just a few feet and there was silence.
they didn t get a response? we first learned about these strange attacks, these strange symptoms emerging against u.s. diplomatic personnel in august. cbs radio first to report american diplomats were reporting incidents which caused a variety of physical symptoms. super vague in the initial reporting that was very unclear what types of incidents were happening here. the state department was totally bafflingly vague and confusing on the subject. we now thanks to good reporting on the subject, we now know it s a scary and weird as it seemed before we knew the details. we now know there are 21 medically confirmed cases, some involve permanent hearing loss or traumatic brain injury. yesterday the associate the press published scary details on the attacks. let me read to you straight from the a.p. story. yet, the blaring grinding noise jolted the american diplomat from his bed in a havana hotel. he moved just a few feet and there was silence.
press published scary details on the attacks. let me read to you straight from the a.p. story. yet, the blaring grinding noise jolted the american diplomat from his bed in a havana hotel. he moved just a few feet and there was silence. quote he climbed back into bed, the agonizing sound hit him again. it was as if he walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room. quote in several episodes recounted by u.s. officials, victims knew it was happening in realtime and strong indications of a sonic attack. we really don t know what is going on. yesterday the state department spokes woman said there is an aggressive investigation underway but offered no more information than a month ago. the state department s most recent line is the reality is we don t know who or what has caused this. we also now know the state department is not responding to the cuban government when they have been offering to by latter
this is someone who came in after lewandowski was fired. when asked the question which was a hypothetical would the president had hired manafort if he knew ten years ago he tried to help vladimir putin according to this a.p. story, sean deflected that and talked about manafort, and after that he talked about the podestas, clinton and kind of went off. big picture, why does this matter david chalian? paul manafort is a character to what director comey is talking about even though comey did not want to talk about individuals, we know from our reporting that manafort is central to the nexus of russia and russian associations and
shooting someone on fifth avenue and can an apology take care of that? i disagree with rebecca a. i don t think you can be contrite, i don t think you can be sincere. i don t think that will be effective. this is a man who has been quoted talking about stuff like this for 30-plus years. an apology for one single tape is not going to move the needle. there are other tapes. not necessarily in the access hollywood archives, but the apprentice archives, the apprentice is a reality show over a decade. what triggeled thred this pressn associated press talking about employees made sexist, lewd remarks on the set, on the scenes, then access hollywood went looking for the tape. the a.p. story has graphic details. trump being quoted allegedly saying i d like to hit that, talking about the nice rear end of one of the camera women, talking about having one of the women twirl for him, sounds like the allegations of roger ailes,