going to overthrow this government. i m convinced he s going to try to do that. that s the latest rather grim assessment from secretary of state antony blinken, as russia continues its multipronged assault on ukraine. the u.s., in turn, isn t just responding with sanctions but adding additional military moves as well, deploying another 7,000 u.s. troops from the united states to europe. let s get some perspective from the former u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel, the one who oversaw the defense department when russia invaded ukraine in 2014, took over crimea. just a few days ago, you expressed hope for a diplomatic offramp, and yet here we are now, ukraine in the middle of a full-scale russian invasion. what do you make of this moment? well, when we look back over the last two weeks and what the president has said, secretaries blinken and austin, what our intelligence has shown us that
sore loser-dom and being a really nasty person but not a criminal, fine. when you look at the mounting evidence, particularly what we re seeing in the man we were told never sends emails, what do you see? oh, i see a lot and i see a lot that we have to get to the bottom of. this is not just an isolated phone call with the georgia secretary of state. this is a multipronged assault. we ve got mark meadows chief of staff going to bat, embarrassing himself in these emails. and you know, i m glad we ve got these email references. they almost read as though they were written for public consumption down the road. they are so clear in their horror. these two d.o.j. people who end up minding the store when bill barr leaves, trying not to do what the president wants, what mark meadows is telling them, trying their several funny ones because we all think giuliani is a cartoonish villain, no, i ll
the multipronged attack in a tourist district in indonesia s capital city of jakarta left at least two people dead and about two dozen wounded. it also raises disturbing questions about the terror group s global reach. let s bring in a former cia official, the cnn counterterrorism analyst phillip mudd, along with our national security analyst peter bergen and former chair of the house intelligence committee cnn national security commentator mike rogers. phil, let s take a look at the map. there s been one isis attack after another over the past several months. what makes this paris style attack in indonesia different? i think there s a couple things you need to think about, wolf. number one, you look at the orchestraters of this attack. in this case it looks like an indonesian operating out of raqqah and syria. in the case of paris that was native born belgians in france emigrated from north africa. isis developing the capability to draw on people from oversea who is have familiarity
leader osama bin laden has been urging affiliates of his terrorist network the take action, but one source cautions of linking bin laden to recent reports that he ordered mumbai-style attacks on european cities. the hub came under a series of uncoordinated attacks two years ago that left 160 people dead. could such a multipronged assault happen here in the united states? would the u.s. be ready to take them on? here is cnn s homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve. wolf, this is a colt m-4 semi-and fully automatic weapon and now every new york city police recruit is shown how to use one. why? mumbai. reporter: mumbai was a low-tech, high-impact attack, and terrorists armed with only semi-automatic weapons an grenades and bombs hit many
is disgraceful. washington post says steve bennett is urging his old colleagues in the white house to get more aggressive with a multipronged assault on the federal investigation telling administration officials get the president to fire rosenstein to rein in mueller and stop cooperation, have no presidential interview with a special counsel and bannon once the president to retroactively invoke executive privilege, to cooperate with special counsel, that he can noe longer use that material. shannon: we will see if the president is listening to his advice. the threat of legal action and more for the justice department, learning more about why trump administration officials have been reluctant to share the contents of a top-secret fbi memo involving russia and the 2016 election. catherine herridge late details. reporter: after threatening