nato as the 32 country. regarding ukraine. president biden okayed a giant new package for tax dollars, $8 hundred million to fight off russia. approved sending controversy cluster bombs to help them. he chose the cluster bombs because the united states stock of other ammunition is so low. how does that make us look? you shouldn t be telling your adversary you have a problem, you have a supply chain set of issues and an excuse to do something. that s the quiet part. the task is to fix it and make sure you do have the things you need. harris: the wall street journal editorial board is asking biden admits the problem but then why not do something about it? in focus house foreign affairs committee chairman mike mccaul. let s go to jacque heinrich traveling with the president at that nato summit. jacque. hey there, harris, the white house made clear after the president s interview that u.s. read enes to defend itself was never a question. the military has specific requir
happening now, president biden is on his way back to the united states after a final round of talks with allies here in europe. he s touting the nato summit as a success and declaring that vladimir putin and i m quoting him now, already has lost the war in ukraine. also tonight, defense secretary lloyd austin tells me he has no doubt ukraine will join nato after the war ends. stand by for all of my exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin here in lithuania. the pentagon chief also telling me that gop senator tommy tuberville s hold on u.s. military promotions is a national security issue. and breaking news we re following right now. donald trump s son-in-law and former adviser jared kushner has testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. our correspondents are working the story. they re getting new information this hour. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuani
this is the source. we start with breaking news. as the u.s. retaliation for the deaths of three american soldiers is underway tonight. the u.s. hitting more than 85 targets in iraq and syria against iranian-backed militias. b1 bombers flying nonstop from an air force base in texas ultimately striking 7 facilities in a mission the white house says was successful but also not over yet. it is without a doubt a sharp escalation of the war in the middle east. those bombers in the air today as president biden was attending the dignified transfer for those three soldiers at dover air force base. we start with team coverage tonight. oren leiberman at the pentagon, retired air force colonel cedric leighton in washington, and nic robinson in tel aviv. the pentagon confirming these strikes and laying out their rationale. what s the latest you re learning tonight? the u.s. carrying out strikes in iraq and syria. going after not specifically iran. the u.s. didn t strike directly in i
that operate in iraq and syria that launch attacks on our service members. i understand that. but this attack led to the death of three service members. is iran responsible for the death of these three service members that you just read their names and their families have been notified of their death? again, iran certainly bears a responsibility as they fund these groups that continue to use capabilities that they get from iran. and of course, killed three of our service members. can i take a step back? sure. just looking at last week, maybe from saturday of last week up until saturday or sunday maybe, nine days, the u.s. launched strikes in syria, in iraq against houthi positions, inside yemen with the aim of re-establishing deterrence and degrade their capabilities of whether attacking u.s. forces or shipping in the red sea. nonetheless, as throughout those days what we saw is unprecedented escalation. different sites were targeted with drones, more u.s. soldiers
come again. -sorry, what was that? introducing the next generation 10g network only from xfinity. hello i m alicia menendez the future starts now. with ali meridian thank you for joining our coverage as the world watches a crisis unfold in russia it has been a while 24 hours testing vladimir putin s hold on power. the kremlin now protecting the world and it reached a deal with the leader of a mercenary group that has gone rogue. prigozhin the leader of the mercenary group ordered his forces to return to their bases abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading towards moscow the new video showing prigozhin greeted with cheers as he left the city of hours ago. that is where he had taken control of the key russian military facility an act of retaliation after russia s military launched a missile strike on wagner group camps, the kremlin has said that prigozhin would quote go to belarus and wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted, nbc news has not independently confi