Saudi arabia to join. And pakistan releases the alleged mastermind of the mumbai many attack. And chernobyl 29yearold Nuclear Accident continues to affects the people in the fallout zone. Good evening im barbara serra. And im antonio mora. We begin in panama, in the summit of the americas. President obama and cuban president raul cuba will hold a meeting. We certainly do anticipate that they will have the opportunity to see each other at the summit tomorrow, to have a discussion. Again we dont have a physical meeting scheduled at a certain time but we certainly anticipate that they will have a discussion tomorrow in the context of the summit on the margin of that summit. The administration also confirmed that the leaders spoke on the phone on wednesday. Both leaders first spoke in a december phone call announcing their intent to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries. Meanwhile the high level talks got off to a start on friday night. James bays joins you from panama cit
Sean hannity. I think its probably unwitting on his part but if you want to know and understand the psyche and the mood and the Strategic Thinking thats guiding the Republican Party at any given moment well hannity is just an unusually good barometer of that. To me thats what makes him unique. They have all their own quirks and hes first and foremost a Republican Party man and wants the democrats to look bad and lose. Hes more than happy to completely reverse himself or totally ignore past pronouncement of principle if it serves that underlying agenda. The contortions this requires can be absurd but if you pay close enough attention can be very revealing. Because what hes really doing is expressing the message, the strategy thats gaining favor or thats in favor at that moment among republicans. Case in point, the debate over immigration. In the immediate wake of last novembers election, its an election that republicans like hannity were absolutely convinced they were going to win right
And lets get right to the breaking news. A fresh round of u. S. Air strikes in iraq. American war planes attack targets belonging to isis as the jihadists who call themselves the Islamic State close in on a major city in Northern Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of christians and other minorities are now on the run. U. S. Aircraft have the also dropped food and water as the Obama Administration warns of what its calling a potential genocide. Our correspondent and guests are standing by with the kind of coverage only cnn can deliver. Lets begin with pentagon correspondent barbara starr. What are you learning . We have now in less than 24 hours had three rounds of air strikes against isis militants in Northern Iraq. It began early today with a strike by f a18 aircraft against a mobile artillery position that isis had outside the city of erbil in Northern Iraq. A short time later, a couple of hours later two additional strikes. A u. S. Military drone fired a shot against a terrorist mortar pos
Were following breaking news. A deadly shooting rampage targeting a u. S. Navy reserve center and u. S. Military recruiting center in chattanooga, tennessee. Four u. S. Marines are confirmed dead at least three other people have been injured, including a police officer. The gunman is also dead. Sources have just identified him to cnn as Muhammad Youssef abdulazeez born in 1990. At of now, it is being treated as an act of domestic terrorism. And a verdict has been reached in the trial of james holmes who shot and killed 12 people in a Movie Theater in aurora colorado. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Were stand i by for the verdict to be read. Were covering the breaking news this hour with our correspondents and our guests. Our justice correspondent pamela brown begins our coverage. Pamela were getting new details about this shooter. Tell us what we know. The fbi is now officially identifying the shooter, wolf as 24yearold Muhammad Youssef abdulazeez. In this statement just
I think you know the answer to that. When you say solution, are you talking about war . Will the u. S. Go to war . I think you know the answer to that. Is iran abiding by the Nuclear Agreement in your view . We have some pretty strong opinions. I would say they are certainly not abiding by the spirit of the agreement. And that goes for really a further step. I would say that the spirit of the agreement iran is not abiding by, absolutely. Staying in that region, do you have the right generals in place right now for the fight in afghanistan . Well, were going to make a determination, peter, in a very short period of time as to afghanistan. Ive been looking at it. Its our longest war in history, 17 years. Thats unacceptable. We will be making decisions as you know, very well. Were looking into that very closely. We talked about it a little bit today. We talked about venezuela today also, by the way. Venezuela is a mess. It is very dangerous mess and a very sad situation, but we talked abo