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i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for joining us. new today, iraq is now summoning a top u.s. diplomatic official in protest of a barrage of punishing u.s. air strikes in the middle east. the u.s. says those strikes hit 85 targets linked to iran s islamic revolutionary guard quds force and affiliated militia groups in iraq and syria. the strikes a response to a drone attack in jordan which killed three american soldiers on sunday. iraq is claiming the explosions that just happened involving the u.s. killing 16 people, including civilians. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin says the strikes are just the beginning of the u.s. response. iran says the u.s. has made a strategic mistake, while iraq and syria say the u.s. actions could inflame more conflict in the region. cnn has teams around the globe covering all of these developments. let s go first to cnn s ben wedeman in jordan. ben, these strikes were sudden, devastating. how are officials on the ground? how ar ....
democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because ....
i m sandra smith in new york. we will get the latest in the twist of the classified document scandal, ongoing at this hour, quickly becoming president biden s biggest headache, i should say biggest headache yet, right? new at 2:00 with the fox news alert. john: still early. a question we are hearing more and more, and harder to answer, what in the world is happening in the nation s school. from critical race theory and rewriting history, redefining centuries of science, the push to go woke in the nation s classrooms is no longer causing controversy, but real world consequences parents say are hurting their kids. sandra: supporters say it s making sure every student is regarded equally. angry parents say the focuses on differences like gender and race only serves to further divide us. in fairfax county virginia, and the merit awards scandal has the governor taking action, a total of 17 high schools in three virginia counties admitting to withholding national merit aw ....
tactics. so-called eco-warriors armed with typically went after priceless works of art this weekend in italy. i say leave them there. other protesters blocked rush-hour traffic. the i-95 beltway in maryland, we showed it to you when it happened. other climate activists deflated tires on suvs in cities all across the nation. in recent months, far left activists have also scaled buildings, lit themselves on fire, and threaten to disrupt a congressional baseball game. now former vice president al gore seems to take things to a more extreme level, making this stunning comparison between climate deniers, as he calls them, and botched police responders in eve all day s school shooting. let s watch. climate deniers are in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in uvalde, texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred. they heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward. confron ....
control. inflation hit 8.6% last month, the hottest inflation since 1981. the fed meets later today. fed funds futures markets are pricing in 0.75 point rate hike to curb inflation. the wall street journal reporting the fed is likely to make a move larger than the 50 basis point move a few days ago. a terrible day yesterday, a terrible two days. cnn s claire severe webastian i london. is there stability in europe? a little bit more stability today in europe and asia as they continue to sort of digest the falls that we saw those inflation fears out of the u.s. a mixed picture. asia is now closed. tokyo is the outlier there. that economy vulnerable to monetary tightening in the u.s. japan is doing the opposite to try to maintain inflation there. the yen is around a 20-year low. again, the dollar, china rising despite renewed covid restrictions there. here in europe again a mixed picture. there is still they are digesting the worry, faster rate rises in the u.s. in e ....