study the smoke and is gearing up to fly right into it. this will be the most comprehensive attempt yet to measure and analyze wildfire smoke. we re live from denver. explain what they re hoping to do with this data? good morning, julie. one of the goals here is to be able to give all of us proper warnings about what exactly is in the air, what we re breathing in. so they are flying into these smoke screens to capture the data to tell us what is happening with the smoke that s traveling to places where we all live. this effort is called the western wildfire experiment for cloud chemistry aerosol ab shorping. they ve outfit a plane flying into smoke screens to collect the data how it could impact
commission, cnn political commentators matt lewis and joan walsh and larry, just start with you. the first question, i think, is does he have a legal foot to stand on here, and what s the point of it? well, the point of it is to delay. legal foot to stand on, yes, he can refuse to have trump testify and mueller can subpoena trump and it can go to the courts and if the courts order trump to testify, he can take the fifth amendment. i don t think he has a legal foot to stand on with the demand, with the idea that i want to know all the evidence you have and you have to prove to me that you have evidence he committed a crime before i m going to talk to you. every defense lawyer would love to be able to do that for your client but you generally can t. i think this is about the fact that they don t want trump to testify, and they re just trying to throw up smoke screens. matt, also about public opinion, right? obviously, rudy giuliani, even quoted in the new york times suggesting that
she meant. as for what he meant as kelly being a victim, that one is unclear. we asked him to come on the program. we asked the white house. they all declined. the white house has been instructed to not apologize. and now the staff and reporters are running around throwing smoke screens. this is a president who not only has insulted mccain himself, but as we found out during the campaign, doesn t want to apologize for anything. the idea of asking for forgiveness, is that a central tenet for you? i like to work where i don t have to ask for forgiveness. i like to be good. i don t like to have to ask for forgiveness. and i am good. if i do something wrong, i try to make it right. i fully think that apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong. i will apologize in the future
the white house has been instructed to not apologize. and now the staff and reporters are running around throwing smoke screens. as we found out during the campaign, they don t want to apologize for anything. the idea of asking for forgiveness, is that a central tenet for you. i like to be good. i don t like to have to ask for forgiveness. and i am good. if i do something wrong, i try to make it right. i fully think that apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong. what was the last time you actually po actually apologized for something? oh wow.
fence. and they say that also makes it a more dangerous situation for the soldiers. so, you know, this is a ttactic that we ve seen evolved, likely to see next week as well. and during the course of this last week, we saw them gathering thousands of tires from across the gaza strip to light them on fire to create these smoke screens. definitely something that they believe is effective. and again, probably see it again over the course of the next five weeks. ian lee following it all live for us in jerusalem. thank you for the reporting. now to syria, pro government forces there are getting closer and closer to seizing all of eastern ghouta. they have reportedly launched an assault on duma, the latest rebel held area. aid and monitoring groups say air strikes and shelling killed dozens on friday. rescue volunteers from the white helmets say at least 35 of the dead were civilians. state media report rebel shelling also killed four people