vowing to forcefully protect u. s citizens as his administration cast blame on iran and seeks to punish its proxies. also tonight, former white house chief of staff mark meadows is under orders to testify along with other top x trump aides. in the january 6th criminal investigation. it s another win for the special counsel after forcing trump s lawyer to face a grand jury today, and north korea threatens to unleash a giant radioactive tsunami as it claims to test a nuclear capable underwater drone. kim jong un ramping up his dangerous taunts. as we re learning more about human rights abuses on his watch , welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world is on assignment. i m alex marquardt york in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news and let s get right to that breaking news out of syria, u. s forces targeted with rocket fire tonight by suspected iranian backed fighters. this comes after a deadly drone attack on americans and retaliatory airs
drone. north korean state media says the mission of this weapon is to quote make a super scale radioactive tsunami to destroy enemy warships and ports. it claims this drone traveled underwater for nearly 60 hours, then detonated warhead and blew up a mock enemy ports. some analysts are skeptical of the real capability of this weapon. there s a lot we don t understand about how they re controlling this weapon, whether it s pre programmed or whether they re actively maneuvering this thing underwater and panda says this drone would likely be vulnerable to being destroyed by the u. s and south korean navies before it flushes out to sea. but he says it could still be a threat. there is nothing preventing north korea from in principle, putting a nuclear device on an underwater vehicle like this and detonating it, they could use it against massed formations of surface warships in testing. an underwater drone takes a page from vladimir putin s playbook. russia claims to have developed a submar