charlie dent, many thanks to both. we re going to talk again in the next hour. so you guys. thanks rosemary. while the u.s. military has says a cannot could carry out precision airstrikes on iran-backed groups and syria. president joe biden ordered the strikes, in there is or on bunkers used by groups tied to iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps. u.s. central command says no one was killed, the strikes are meant to defend and protect american forces from attacks like one on august 15th. when the drone strike targeted a compound run by u.s. back syrian opposition fighters. still to come, ukraine is celebrating independence day. wow locked in a fight for its very existence. we will look at where the war stands right now. six months after russia s invasion.
retake all russian occupied territory including crimea, which moscow illegally annexed back in 2014. the many hours ahead, the u.s. is expected to announce its largest ever security package for ukraine, with around three billion dollars. a u.s. official tells cnn it will include western air defense systems,, as well as stockpiles of ammunition. it also earmarks money for training and maintenance. ukraine s president says foreign support is critical for his country to stay in the fight. [interpreter] we need to be clearly aware that as soon as the world becomes tired of this war, it is gonna be a great threat to the whole world, and the threat of an eyeliner ukraine. so, we are grateful for any kind of assistance. we need more of it, that is true. [end of translation] jill dougherty is a cnn
months of the war, and since 1991, they re independents all coming this week. so, this all kinds of leads to the conclusion that there would be something. the concern, i think from the united states at least, is that it could be directed against individual citizens, you know, citizens as opposed to the military. that could be very dangerous. but, you know, i think also we have to watch also what s going on in russia. and i do think that they were television could also be against people who are opposed to the war and opposed to putin, because that already is kind of part of the drumbeat that you are hearing from the media and from officials. right, and after calling on ukrainians to respect the curfew and respond to any air raid signals that they hear, president zelenskyy pledged to retaliate against any russian attack. do you see this as a turning
jury failed to reach a verdict against croft and fox. two additional defendants were acquitted in april while two others flipped and testified for the prosecution. the assistant u.s. attorney who helped prosecute the case chillingly told the jury this, you can t just strap on an ar-15 and body armor and go snatch the governor. that wasn t the defendant s ultimate goal. they wanted to set off a second american civil war. a second american resolution. and they wanted to do it for a long time before they settled on governor whitmer. in a statement today, whitmer said that today s verdicts prove that violence and threats have no place in our politics, and those who seek to divide us will be held accountable, but we must also take a hard look at the status of our politics. plots against public officials and threats to the fbi were a disturbing extension of radicalized domestic terrorism that festers in our nation, threatening the very foundation of our republic. we re back with harry li
released a statement that the two officers involved will be reinstated to the police force and be given additional training. we have still yet to hear from the brooks family, but that is going to happen eminently. they have scheduled a 5:00 p.m. press conference that s going to happen in just a matter of minutes. nick valencia, thanks so much. two men could face a maximum life sentence after a jury convicted them in a kidnapping plot against democratic governor gretchen whitmer of michigan. today, a federal grand jury found adam fox and barry croft guilty of conspiring to kidnap governor whitmer and use weapons of mass destruction. you might recall their arrest in 2020 at the height of tensions in the early days of the pandemic. at that time, whitmer faced some backlash over covid restrictions in her state. prosecutors say fox and croft planned to kidnap governor whitmer from her summer home. they even practiced detonating explosives at a so-called shoot house. they had an ultimate