right now. out front next, the breaking news u.s. air strikes in the middle east tonight. u.s. fighter jets right now striking parts of yemen with tomahawk missiles. we are waiting to hear directly from president biden as the entire middle east and the world right now are on edge. and more breaking news tonight. trump s tirade, a judge shutting the former president down after an outburst at his fraud trial in new york. could this be the beginning of the end for trump s business empire? and christie s hot mic moment everybody s been talking about. we have the man on the other end, who was speaking to christie on that mic. what else did he say and what was it really an accident? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett, and we do begin out front tonight with the breaking news, the united states striking the middle east this hour. a u.s. official telling cnn that right now the u.s. military is carrying out strikes with fighter jets and tomahawk missiles on ye
oren, thank you very much. and back with me in a significant moment, in a significant attack as oren describes it, general, the uss florida that was the subresponsible for launching some of these tomahawks. when you hear that and releasing this information, sharing the name, saying the name of the vessel what due you take away from it? you have several different submarines. you ve got boomers, your nuke capability. the navy is never going to let you know where those babies are. the attack submarines, on the other hand, make themselves known. this is significant announcement by the department of defense saying we have defense capabilities, very precise attack, and we re going to do very significant bomb damage assessment in therms of what the damage was against the target, was there any collateral damage as a result of that? and alter their attack platform accordingly. this makes perfect sense when
iran is watching. president obama said that he would not allow eran to develop a nuke capability which is an intelligence matter. i don t have to tell you is a much more difficult thing to assess than whether or not there has been a use of chemical weapons. if the president backs off as he appears to be from the red line and enormous consequences in syria what do you think of the lesson that is being seen by the mullahs in tehran? the chemical threat is serious. but you it is of a typically different magnitude of the iranian nuclear threat which threatens the existences of the state of israel and threatens world stability. the iranian mullahs if they are looking at the syrian situation i don t know what they are seeing what definitely they have seen in a little over a on imonth is a visit by the u.s. secretary of defense. the u.s. secretary of state and the president of the united
iran is watching. president obama said that he would not allow eran to develop a nuke capability which is an intelligence matter. i don t have to tell you is a much more difficult thing to assess than whether or not there has been a use of chemical weapons. if the president backs off as he appears to be from the red line and enorms consequences in what do you think of the lesson that is being seen by the mullahs in tehran? the chemical threat is serious. but you it is of a typically different magnitude of the iranian nuclear threat which threatens the existences of the state of israel and threatens world stability. the iranian mullahs if they are looking at the syrian situation i don t know what they are seeing what definitely they have seen in a little over a on imonth is a visit by the u.s. secretary of defense. the u.s. secretary of state and the president of the united
iran is watching. president obama said that he would not allow eran to develop a nuke capability which is an intelligence matter. i don t have to tell you is a much more difficult thing to assess than whether or not there has been a use of chemical weapons. if the president backs off as he appears to be from the red line and enormous consequences in syria what do you think of the lesson that is being seen by the mullahs in tehran? the chemical threat is serious. but you it is of a typically different magnitude of the iranian nuclear threat which threatens the existences of the state of israel and threatens world stability. the iranian mullahs if they are looking at the syrian situation i don t know what they are seeing what definitely they have seen in a little over a on imonth is a visit by the u.s. secretary of defense. the u.s. secretary of state and the president of the united