vowing to forcefully protect u. s citizens as his administration cast blame on iran and seeks to punish its proxies. also tonight, former white house chief of staff mark meadows is under orders to testify along with other top x trump aides. in the january 6th criminal investigation. it s another win for the special counsel after forcing trump s lawyer to face a grand jury today, and north korea threatens to unleash a giant radioactive tsunami as it claims to test a nuclear capable underwater drone. kim jong un ramping up his dangerous taunts. as we re learning more about human rights abuses on his watch , welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world is on assignment. i m alex marquardt york in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news and let s get right to that breaking news out of syria, u. s forces targeted with rocket fire tonight by suspected iranian backed fighters. this comes after a deadly drone attack on americans and retaliatory airs
police after firing a nail gun into the fbi s cincinnati field office. while on saturday, armed protesters gathered near the fbi s office in phoenix, arizona. and in the last 24 hours, just checking the ex-president s truth social account, he is still releasing statements criticizing the fbi and justice department, just as his explanations for why he even had classified documents at mar-a-lago keep shifting. as the new york times lays out, first, he says that he was working and cooperating with government agents, who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. then, when the government revealed that the fbi had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence. finally, his aides claimed he had a standing order to declassify documents that left the oval office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney general/client and executive privilege. the evolving arguments are ex
planting evidence at mar-a-lago. then, after it was revealed the documents were classified, trump s team said he had taken them home to work on them, falsely claiming that president obama had done the same. then, this third reason why it was okay from trump s team, quote, he had a standing order that documents were moved from the oval office, taken to the residence, were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. former national security adviser john bolton told nbc news this. i think that claim is almost certainly a lie. i was never aware of anything even remotely approximaing that policy and haven t heard anything of it since i left. so i think this is made up. and i think a key point here is when somebody is making up stories like that, i think it indicates a level of desperation. as we try to figure out why and how those classified documents ended up at mar-a-lago, nbc news has uncovered new details about the final days of the trump presidency and the last-
collaborators would not forgive us, she says. we knew there would be serious retribution. still they did it. they even managed to put one baby in a ventilator machine. they didn t hook it up, obviously, but they managed to fake those illnesses . those conditions and save a couple of children from being taken to crimea or russia. whether other kids are it s unclear, but certainly there s no indication when and if they ll ever come back, alex genocidal kidnapping in broad daylight, just horrible. david mckenzie in ukraine. thank you very much. for that report tonight. to israel and a new fallout from prime minister benjamin netanyahu s moves to overhaul israel s judicial system. the israeli attorney general, accusing the prime minister netanyahu of acting illegally, cnn said. ask gold has details. alex just hours after benjamin netanyahu landed in london for an official visit, the israeli attorney general issued a scathing letter telling
live in a country squarely under taliban control. afghanistan s economy is in free fall, and malnutrition is rampant, especially among children. sky news chief correspondent, stewart ramsey filed this report from a children s hospital in kabul. it s a tough one. there s over 500 patients in this hospital, they have only room for 300. ward after ward is the same, jam-packed with really poorly babies and children. the head doctor says they re overwhelmed by demand and lack of equipment. foreign aid lost after the taliban takeover is critical, he says, if they are to save lives. this is a problem, to get drugs. our people are very poor. we need a ventilator machine. we don t have ventilator.