President trump is set to meet with senior military leaders just a few minutes from now. He says all options are on the table after earlier today he condemned the suspected Chemical Attack this syria and said his administration would be making major decisions on how to respond in the next 24 to 48 hours. We will have much more on that, including the president s unprecedented criticism of putin. But first, the other news thats breaking right now thats tied to russia in a whole different way. The fbi raided the law office of Michael Cohen, president trumps long time personal lawyer today in manhattan. According to cohens lawyer, the fbi was acting on a referral by special Counsel Robert Mueller and Empowered By Search Warrants from u. S. Attorneys in the Southern District of new york. According to the new york times, the fbi seized emails, tax documents, and Business Records from cohens office. Thetimes says the seized reports include communication with president trump. The move today by
Almost everyone in power claims to believe it. The push to war in syria, by the way has united politicians have both sides. Lindsey graham and howard dean typically agree on very little. Not much at all. But today they are both calling for war in syria. Graham is ghanelding massive attacks on the syrian military, dean is going even further than that on twitter, he called the president , quote a wimp for merely sending thousands of troops and launching tons of bombs at syria. Thats not enough for howard dean who you may remember once ran for president as the peace candidate. Tonight he wants total war in syria. Television pundits, of course, strongly agree. This morning the Foreign Policy team over on Msnbc Exexplained that its far more important for american troops to fight in syria than it is to secure our own border here in america u watch. There is no question that now all these years later is Donald Trumps challenge. He has to take action. He has spoken to macron. What he ought too
Facility as well as another site. So three sites were struck tonight. We just heard from secretary mattis. Heres what he said. Tonight, france, the United Kingdom and the United States took decisive action. Clearly, the assad regime did not get the message last year. General dunford said that syrian surface to air missiles had been engaged at the beginning of the air strikes. They, however, have not reported that there were any u. S. Or allied losses as a result of those Sam Missiles Being fired. There was no sign that the russians engaged in any way. General dunford said that the Deconfliction Hot Line was employed but the u. S. Did not give russia any advance warning
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