president obama adamant on cbs s 60 minutes that putin s moves into syria were closely watched. we knew that he was planning to provide the military assistance that assad was needing because they were with the help of anti tank missiles like these. missiles many reports say were provided through the cia. 50 tons of ammunition, a boost to the pentagon s program to arm other anti isis rebel groups and drones operated by the special u.s. operations command flying over syria looking for isis leader and other top operatives. the head of special operations general joe votel in an
they were running out of ammunition. the u.s. made the decision to help them and continue to help them. the hope by the pentagon is this time it will work out because these rebels are fighting isis. the program that got cancelled. those were rebels interested in fighting the assad regime, wolf? barbara starr reporting for us. thank you. let s go to tulsi gabbard. congresswoman, in the interview the president gave to cbs, he said the russian president putin acknowledged that president putin was doing what he was doing in syria, that the u.s. knew what his intentions were and the u.s. was not caught off guard. is that your understanding, as well? wolf, there is so many different accounts of this of who knew what when and whether people were surprised. the real issue is what are we
bombs killing at least 97 people and wounding nearly 250 at a peace rally in ankara, turkey. the turkish prime minister saying his government suspects isis is behind it. russian president vladimir putin offering his condolences to the turks and taking a swipe at the obama administration. translator: let them name for us the specific places where terrorists are hiding, where their headquarters and warehouses with weapons and equipment are, give us the targets. but russian-backed attacks finding their own targets. mostly far from isis in the latest clashes in northwest syria. anti-regime forces and civilians targeted with more than 500 missiles and hundreds of shells according to an observer group. cnn could not independently verify the video.
doing? what s the strategy on the ground? that s what i find confusing. there is no clarity on who our enemy is in the united states and what kind of mission we re trying to accomplish. we re seeing this very contradictory statements saying that from administration saying they are going after isis but in the same token, they are allowing turkey to bomb the curcur kurds who are our most effective trous worthy ground allies. they are saying they are focused on getting rid of assad and directly and indirectly helping rebels made up of al qaeda and other islamic extremists groups including isis. people who are sworn enemies because they are working ocho over throw assad. there are so many issues with what is happening on the ground that i think have to be dealt with otherwise we re going to continue to see what we re seeing which is isis and islamic extremists groups getting
to a officials that isis is behind it. turkish officials saying earlier today the method of the attack, some of the things they saw and how the attack was carried out matches isis attacks that happened in turkey earlier this year. so a lot of concern and turkey and important nato ally, u.s. war planes flying over northern syria out of turkish air bases and looks like turkey has been hit very badly here, wolf. after that train program last week that was clearly a failure, you re learning about a new u.s. effort to arm the so-called moderate syrian rebels. yeah, wolf, overnight we know now that the u.s. air dropped some 50 tons of ammunition across that turkish border into northern syria to help out about 5,000 rebels in a coalition on the ground. these are rebels that are already fighting isis.