Major Breaking News right now. Israel vowing to retaliate after iran launches a major Strike Firing about 200 ballistic missiles at israel. A Strike Iran assists was only a quote, portion of their power. Good evening. Im Wolf Blitzer along with Kasie Hunt, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. This is a Special Edition of this situation it is a sharp escalation between the two sides. One that could tip the region further into an allout War Air Raid sirens sounding across israel as flashes of light Lit Up the sky israels Air Defense System successfully knocking down most of irans missiles but there were some hits. This is one crater in central israel the massive strike coming a day after israeli forces launched a rare Ground Operation into southern lebanon, a mission aimed at taking out the uranium backed militia, hezbollah and tonight, iran is threatening what It Calls a Crushing Quote crushing response if israel carries through with its promise, promis
new york. i m chris hayes. tomorrow the january six committee will be holding what maybe, a little unclear but maybe their final hearing. they will be apparently divulging new evidence showing how the ex president directed the attempted coup. washington post reports that the committee quote is expected to highlight newly-obtained secret service records showing how trump was ribbed levy alerted to bloom violence that day, and he still sought to stop the conflict. that includes internal emails that further buttress accounts about staff members warning trump about the risk and then the reality of violence that day as he continued to press nervous secret service agents to take him to the capital to join the marching. when you know there s been some justifiable controversy around the fact the secret service deleted text messages from the key days january 5th and sixth after the oversight officials requested them. but the committee has been able to obtain other electronic communica
with deep content for the rules of war. that is the u.s. secretary of defense in europe right now rallying allies to support ukraine after russian president vladimir putin s latest wave of deadly missile attacks that struck civilian targets including university and playgrounds. president biden says he has no intentions of meeting with putin at the g20 summit next month and also had harsh words for saudi arabia wondering that there will be quote consequences after the saudis partnered with russia to slash oil production which will send prices higher ahead of what we re already have a hard winter in europe, particularly. senator chris mercy of connecticut was one of the four senators to call for reevaluation of the u.s. along to saudi arabia and he joins me now. it s good to have you. i have to say that have been washed the trajectory of the u.s. saudi relationship through several administrations, the basic fact keeps being that we are addicted to oil and they
poland or if he moves on one of the baltic states like lithuania, estonia or latvia, that would trigger article 5. president biden has been very clear, we will defend nato territory, every inch of it. i support it. vladimir putin has threatened quote consequences you ve never faced in your history for anyone who interferes with russia s campaign. do you, sir, take that as threaten for nuclear war. is there any evidence suggesting that is a serious threat by vladimir putin? what i will say, and i m always concerned about nuclear war, you know, as a senior member of the house intelligence committee and the chairman of the subcommittee on counter proliferation, and counter intelligence, you know, i think that the threat of reprisal attacks or lashing out by russia or vladimir putin are critically important in a nuclear capacity but also in the cyber domain, in response to the sanctions.
information about the war about, the casualties russian soldiers are facing, about russian attacks on civilians, and the russian people don t want this, let s put this out there for them to see. and it will also add pressure to get putin on stop this war. and when announcing that russia would engage ukraine, president putin threatened the use of nuclear weapons. should anyone stop him or at least implied the threat. and the kgb officers warned of quote consequences you never faced in your history for anyone who tries to and russia remains quote one of the most popular nuclear states. so how concerning do you find this language? well, it obviously is concerning. but keep in mind, putin is not, he doesn t want to commit suicide. he understands that threatening nuclear weapons costs him nothing. using them costs him everything. the united states is far stronger than russia in every aspect of national power, except