weekend strikes. iran denied any involvement while its houthi allies in yemen say they are responsible claiming they hit the sites with drones. but some u.s. officials are skeptical about that. one shared these satellite images. they say the angle of the strikes would have been difficult from yemen and that the attacks likely originated in iran or iraq. u.s. lawmakers have been weighing in on the saudi oil attacks. that s right. they have mixed views on whether there should be any type of military response. listen. i think it s safe to say that the houthis don t have the capability to do a strike like this without iranian assistance. iranian know how around technology think was certainly involved. whether the iranians directly engaged in this or through the houthi proxies is yet to be seen, but i think it underscores just what we really, frankly, came to expect from this unending war in yemen, that it
john to perform at his third wedding. trump has paid homage to elton john by playing his songs at rallies and affectionately nicknamed his friend kim jong-un little rocket man a reference to john s hit song rocketman. the rejection appears to have hurt the president. trump has focused on topping the attend records and ticket sales of john s. saying quote, i ve broken more elton john records. he seems to have a lot of records, and i by the way, i don t have a musical instrument. i don t have a guitar or an organ. no organ. elton has an organ, and lots of other people helping. we ve broken a lot of records. we ve broken virtually every record. that was quite a read my friend. i was trying to do it in dramatic interpretation. we ll have the top stories and headlines this morning from the saudi oil attacks, and the claim that has 2020 democrats calling for brett kavanaugh s
with a threat to our people, and vital interest. joining us from washington, political reporter from the hill, julia manchester. thank you very much for joining us. how does the push back here from several allies over who is the culprit of the oil attacks look to the u.s. we have to remember who the push back is coming from, japan, china, germany, countries that depend on oil from iran. it s important to keep that in context. this is a sensitive, geopolitical issue and it doesn t surprise me that saudi arabia and the trump administration are really in lock step on this issue. remember obviously saudi arabia and iran have long lasting tensions and it s not surprise that they are quick to side with the trump administration but the trump administration has had a very long lasting relationship with saudi arabia. saudi arabia was one of the first countries that president trump visited in office, and we know that president trump has been itching for a while for i
see the reports blaming syria, he believes, will be proven to be always. sean. sean: david lee miller j with us in jerusalem tonight. thank you. earlier today at the united nations security council, ambassador nikki haley talked about the threat thatbo iran is posing to israel and the rest of the lease being joining us from new york.en the u.n. ambassador nikki haley clearly not satisfied with the statusfi trying to check up the security council during her one month tenure as president. we saw during the regular scheduled quarterly debate on the middle east, which for the past 17 years has focused on the palestinian quest for an and defendant state, that s an israeli bashing session according to the ambassador. she has the 15 matters of the council to focus instead on state-sponsored terrorism is a greater threat to pace and stability in the region, singling out iran support for hezbollah blame for oil attacks and civility in many countries.
internet. that s where the bad guys will go because that s where our lives are and our money, our secrets and our intellectual property. they can go there at the speed of light. he wants those on capitol hill to protect companies for being sued for handing information over to the government. especially if the incidents have been targeted. law americas were reminded of the changing terrorism. on united states soil attacks has been lower since september 11th. over the last year and a half there have been a number of unrelated attacks that did have some type of link to al qaeda. that being said they were not carried out by a leadership group. it is something we are keeping an eye on.