newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with fears of growing escalation in the middle east. the pentagon says an iranian attack drone struck a commercial ship operating in the indian ocean on saturday. a u.s. defense official says a fire broke out on the chemical tanker with nearly two dozen crew members on board, but no one was hurt. it comes as newly declassified u.s. intelligence suggests iran has been deeply involved in a series of attacks by houthi rebels in the red sea. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is announcing a d deepening of the conflict saying the fighting will intensify until there s a vikt rip over hamas. one of the deadliest days of the conflict with 15 soldiers killed on friday. several hamas militants also killed as mounting slin deaths grow, beyond 20,000 according to hamas-controlled health ministry in gaza. we re covering this story from all angles. let s go to kevin liptak at the white house for us. kevin, how are the u.s. and other
What we found out he is come i there would have been a new cant remember if it is zero or that never happened with me and they are. Round of massive sanctions near 0 from any european county to the larger point of the against turkey. And you will see in the meeting one of the things you missed the president didnt want for lee legal aid. Meet you for the president say to take the meeting. Agreement that on the basis of we gave them tanks and they give he didnt want the phone call. Them pillows. The pause of 120 hours, a that is absolutely right. That was rick perry was as vocal as the europeans are pushing for that. Mick at the end, he has ceasefire over the next five about supporting ukraine, they are really, really stingy when a courtesy extended at the time. It comes to legal aid. Days, that we will not be they were not helping ukraine implementing additional he was never realistically sanctions during that period of and that is still to this day are not in the president did not time
morning. i saw a tweet from the middle east correspondent. something he tweeted was small request as the east coast wakes up. can we please make a man for countless thousands days into a psycho drama about american politics and trump? this has been a bad week for the president. we can. the question is can trump? does he congratulate himself for this brilliant raid when seven years ago he said obama should not get any credit for what happened. will he make this about himself? will he say his brilliant brain and his decision to move out of turkey and let syria go, the kurds the british journal tweeted out that she was talking to iraqi officials who say
they have a large army numbers, but of course, they would be no match for the united states, not even close. so i doubt that they would undertaken these operations had the united states not taken the troops out of the zone. but number two come in terms of the campaign promised upcoming year is a problem. the trips are not coming home. we are sending 2,000 trips to saudi arabia. the president and the middle east will continue on and on and on. especially as tensions increase between the sunni coal states and the chia in iran. as it gets worse as things evolve in the region, and united states presence will not end and in fact this is not a drawdown but a moving around. the president s goal, people can either support or not support the president s goal in syria. it s not about bringing troops home here, it s about letting syria go. he does not want the united states to be responsible for what happens in syria next. he wants the russians and the turks and probably the iranians to take over
rob: it is hilarious that iran goes to the un and complains about sanctions and tries to sue the us and un to get them removed and then behave like this. how does the eu support this agreement? their behavior is ridiculous and they say no sign of stopping. jillian: the administration has put forward a comprehensive strategy to counter iran in the region and the middle east but that strategy is meaningless if we let syria go. i understand the compulsion to not want to have a military presence in syria and the middle east but what happened in a rack after president obama came in office and got rid of our troops, al qaeda, isis, if we do the same in syria, allow them to attack again, and counter them