ever embrace american values. us lawmakers grilled the ceo of tiktok about the wildly popular platforms ties to the chinese government and digging in israel s prime minister vows to push on with a judicial overhaul , despite widespread protests and international criticism. zeye from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with john voyeurs. we begin with it for 10 airstrikes in syria that are having deadly consequences for u. s forces deployed to fight isis, depending on says the u. s has launched a retaliatory airstrike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the east . this happened after a drone attack on facility housing u. s personnel in the northeastern part of untr. in a response, u. s defense secretary lloyd austin. said the u. s. will take all necessary measures to protect its people and that no group will strike us troops with impunity. cnn s early even spoke with me a short time ago. a one way drone, essentially a suicide drone carried out attack i
decision very, very shortly in that discussion to authorize the strikes against these particular targets. is there anything you can tell us about the u. s contractor killed. i m afraid not. i mean, we re trying to give the family some time and in space here to grieve. they just got devastating news yesterday. we do know that he was an american citizen and a contractor working for us at that particular base. but again , poppy, i think you can understand where we re going to give them a little bit of privacy right now, just to follow to poppy s question there. what are the things that us can the us do anything to help keep the personnel and u s contractsafe tre? well, the actions that we took yesterday are part and parcel that effort, don, i mean we re going to work to protect our people and our facilities as best we can. it s a dangerous environment. you said it at the top were there to defeat isis to ensure the enduring defeat of isis. they are still a threat in syria. they a
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disagreements on what the supreme court is doing. would i call it an extremist supreme court, but, setting that aside, i think that the american people can understand that the supreme court should have a code of ethics, they should not be taking trips on airplanes and being wined and dined to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars and there s absolutely no disclosure, and not to mention, that shouldn t a justice recuse himself when his wife is involved in a case that comes before the supreme court? and, senator, there are questions about whether this kind of law would be constitutional, the supreme court is a separate branch of government and if this passes, ultimately, there might be a challenge, so, wouldn t the justices wind up then, deciding on the merits of a potential bill that might change their conduct? we have already had a hearing with experts on
fact singaporean. he lives in singapore with his wife, his two children, and that, of course, is t base for tiktok headquarters. let s take a listenow to and i would als like to talk about national security concerns that you have raised. that we take very, very seriously. let me start by about biden s of which we are a subsidiary. by dance is not owned or controlled by the chinese government. it s a private company. to talk is likely to challenge any attempt to ban the when the trump administration tried back in 2020 tiktok was successful in quashing the attempts to ban it, john thank you, anna coren live for us this hour in hong kong. now to the unprecedented level of legal pressure surrounding the former u. s. president donald trump in the classified documents probe a federal grand jury just hours away from hearing potentially significant testimony from trump s attorney