[explosion] harris they are taking out the targets they want to hit. Israel steadily eliminating hamas terrorist leadership. Idf forces say they now have taken out a top naval commander and killed nearly two dozen senior hamas leaders since the start of the war which was only 19 days ago. And we are learning about this. A literal whos who of Terror Leaders had a meeting in beirut. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the Faulkner Focus. A summit of hate i will call it. Top killers from hezbollah, hamas, Palestinian Islamic ji hard holding talks on achieving, quote, victory over israel. It is their first reported meeting since the war begin and cements concerns that analysts are having that the war is now getting wider and more intense and emboldening a host of The Middle Easts worst actors. Israeli forces striking syria after a Rocket Attack in israel, aleppos International Airport a target. State run media is claiming eight soldiers were killed. Secretary of state Antony Blinken confirms
see what the sources of it were, what the motivations were, what the actual contacts were related to poem election meddling, he s right in the middle of some of the when you re thinking about the movie or mini series of this, there are big scenes and don jr. is in a lot of those scenes. and the plotline, just to keep the movie thing going, and paul your name is invoked so i m coming to you, with the intersection of the construction plot and those characters and collusion plot and those characters intersect where they told calamitous lies aboard air force one that brought in a whole bunch of press staffers. i had to hire a lawyer after they were crafted. where we understand donald trump jr. s ability to lie, we lied on the piece of tape at the top of the show he lied, this is the most offensive thing and talks with his chin body language experts, the behavior of lying is something that he engages in and we just showed the tape. yes, so we know that the president of the use dictate
speak in a private meeting. we all said things in private, especially in smaller groups we work with. i think she s handled it appropriately and i was under the pressuimpression that she c the daughter. i m really disappointed that someone would undermine the president by leaking. i also think it s worth noting in that new reporting from axios, sarah sanders was upset that white house press staffers were effectively turning on each other and the fact that this leak really overshadowed the intended white house messaging about the return of those three americans from north korea. i have to tell you, alex. people who confirmed to me that kelly sadler made make that cruel and crude remark said she said it in such a way where it was clear she shot it would be well received in the room. and that, i think, can be read as a signal in many ways of the tone that president trump himself has set for what is acceptable among his own staffers.
to the u.s. it was on that flight where the president crafted this statement with a phony story that fell apart i don t think it even took days. it was within hours the new york times came up with e-mails and don jr. ended up in a jiujitsu e-mailing them himself that he d already have proven to lie about the substance of the meetings. before the president got on air force one to leave germany, he had an unscheduled sidebar conversation with vladimir putin. his cover story was that they talked about russian adoption. so what are the chances these are all coincidences that donald trump told his advisers in the press that he and vladimir putin in an unscheduled sidebar conversation with only the russian translator present and then on a flight that he gets on hours later, he overrules some press staffers who thought transparency was a good approach so they weren t proven to be liars. he overrules them and dictates a
can you talk about the stakes and i think there s a list of press staffers on it that s become public that mueller is seeking to talk to some of the aides on that flight. can you talk about the stakes for anyone involved in that and how that s really fallen apart and become a real flash point in the investigation? a number of staff. the communications staff, mueller wants to talk to hope hicks, sean spicer, rinse priebus and others.resistance. it s not easy to tell the president, sir, i don t think we should do it this way. there somewhere that suggested, i m not comfortable with this. some staff back at the white house who suggested we should do this differently. the president stepped in and said we need to, and whether he dictated word for word what he wanted to be said or said this is the thrust of what i want. and that s a story that fell apart. and that story fell apart the white house s story. the reporting was never challenged. phil rucker was on and this reporting they ne