produced and were not launched from yemen, as was initially claimed. all indications are that iran was responsible for the attack. defense secretary esper says the forces deployed to the middle east are defensive in nature. likely antiaircraft missile systems, missile batteries and hundreds of troops would be deployed. he also called for other nations to step up and condemn iran for its increasingly hostile behavior in the region. of course, this follows just a host of different events, including the shootdown of the american drone back in june. the capture of different warships and the blowing up of different tankers in the middle east. martha: everyone will be at the u.n. to work the diplomatic angles on forming that kind of potential coalition. thank you very much. good to see you tonight. also developing this evening, a shocking arrest in our own backyard. a new jersey man is charged with scouting u.s. targets for a
simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. we re continuing to follow the breaking news tonight. boy, is it big. in three separate filings, federal prosecutors have provided a number of new bombshells tonight. federal prosecutors up in new york say trump directed lawyer michael cohen to cover up a campaign contribution in the form of payments to two women with whom he had sexual relations. we re also getting new insight into what michael cohen has told the special counsel in the ongoing probe of potential coalition, well, sinnynergism w russia, they call it. according to the filing from mueller s office, cohen not only provide information about the moscow real estate project over there that trump pursued during the election but also provided information about attempts by other russian nationals, trusted nationals, they re called, to reach the campaign and set up a sort of synergy between the trump people and the campaign
a coalition off the last general elections but then pro-business free democrats pulled out how likely is that consolation again when you look at the very landscape but also looking at berlin right now as always. this evening i don t want to be speculating about potential coalition coordinations we re just pleased about was his story never reached over ten percent very before and had three targets is the green party want to double digit we want to get a second strongest party and we want to end the absolute majority of the c.s.u. so i m just happy that we ve done it and of course we want to deal responsibly with the result as is the green party it s clear that we can always talk about just environmental policy but we can t talk anti european or authoritarian we said it during the election campaign and we re saying it now of course we re prepared to take on responsibility but it s always about. concha you would want to tackle if you were to go into coalition talks with the c.s.u.
one alternative and house to go to the greens and the free democrats if she can at least claim look you know i m going to talk to the s.p.d. who knows maybe they ll change their minds she has a little bit more leverage a little bit. and so those two potential coalition partners the difficulties there seem to be that they don t get on the greens in the f.d.p. true certainly during the election campaign there were some very nasty remarks made on both sides about the respective other party particularly coming from the environmentally minded greens who rather harshly attacked the free democrats they disagree on some points that are pretty important both for any potential coalition and also perhaps for a lot of our viewers abroad one of those points is policy toward russia the free democrats leader christian the nurse young thirty eight year old who has shot up