For it in public last week. Listen. What i would like to see with iran, i would like to see them call me. Call me, please. This, as new details are emerging on what exactly spiked tensions with iran in the first place. The New York Times is reporting on photographs showing iranian Paramilitary Forces loading missiles into small boats at iranian ports. Cnn last week reported movement of those missiles was one of the critical factors in the u. S. Sending a strike group to the region. Lets get the latest on this. Cnns abby phillip is at the white house. Barbara starr is at the pentagon. Abby, you have all of this going on and also reporting that the president right now is not happy with his advisers on this very issue of how to take on iran. Whats going on . Thats right, kate. Sometimes these discussions about whats going on behind the scenes can seem like palace intrigue, but it really goes to the heart of what is happening here when it comes to iran. You have what seems to be an escalat
Information. Mr. Trump is making it clear obstruction is his middle name. Good morning. Happy saturday to you. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Rudy giuliani making an about face. He will not be going to ukraine to push an investigation on joe biden. That trip cancellation came hours after the president said he was going to talk to giuliani about it. Also, in that interview, the president says it would be okay for the attorney general to investigate a rival and compare joe bidens primary surge to his very own. Thousands of products coming from china are going to be more expensive soon. Trade talks ended in deadlock. Where do we go from here . We are going to begin with Rudy Giuliani and ukraine. He announces he is not going. Here is what he told fox news. I will get out of it. In order to remove political suggestion, i will step back and i will watch it unfold. Giuliani originally said he wanted to convince ukrainian leaders to look into the call to remove a
there is no in-fighting whatsoever. different opinions are expressed and i make a decisive and final decision. it is a very simple process. all sides, views, ppolicies are covered. i m sure that iran will want to talk soon. and kate, i should note, it was the president himself who said he was the one who tempers advisers like national security adviser john bolton who has been very out front on this issue. this is not just our reporting from our sources. the president himself has made that very clear. a great point. barbara, it was your reporting on friday that first pointed to missile movement as what was one of the things behind this escalating concern and threat coming from iran. what more are you hearing about this today? well, i think it s important to remember just for a second where it all began, which was the u.s. military said there was intelligence that iran was possibly planning an attack against u.s. forces, intercepts of communications showed
preparing for another missile test. trace gallagher joins us live. a big part of the concern lies with the fact that will what you just saw president trump right now is in south korea just 35 miles from the border with north korea. about 120 miles from the capital pyongyang. that s about the distance from san diego to los angeles. there are reports that south korean intelligence has detected missile movement in the north which in recent years has been a fairly accurate indicator that kim jong un is readying for launch. we should note the pentagon has issued no such guidance. in recent days, north korea has also been ratcheting up the rhetoric, threatening to test the ballistic missile or even an atmospheric nuclear weapon which would greatly raise the stakes. kim has issued a statement calling president trump a lunatic old man. kim the younger has not launched a missile since september 15. that s the longest lull so far
very radical views on race. and missile movement. u.s. spy satellites now spotting movement of north korean mobile missile launcher, following the regime s threat to fire missiles towards guam. as u.s. forces prepare for war games in south korea, are things about to flare up again? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. breaking news, two days after he failed to condemn white supremacists for violence in charlottesville, virginia, president trump is finally calling out the kkk and the neo-nazis, declaring them repugnant and saying racism is evil, following blistering criticism, much of it from other republicans, the president stressed that the justice department has opened a civil rights probe, but made no mention of domestic terrorism.