right now on the story, we re awaiting word from the supreme court as the push continues for the justices to tackle former president trump s disqualification from the colorado ballot. on the ballot for now, after an appeal by the state s republican party. this as the gop frontrunner faces a new challenge in the election interference case. special counsel jack smith asking the judge to limit what trump can say during his expected march trial. writing he shouldn t be allowed to propagate irrelevant disinformation or inject politics in to this proceeding. trump firing back that smith wants to take away my right of free speech. jonathan turley standing by with his analysis. first to fox news legal editor, carrie kupec. this filing from jack smith, you think it s necessary or overkill? where does it go from here? it reminded me a lot of the gag order that jack smith wanted in september. that was a gag order that the aclu characterized as election interference. it would limit h
We always say that about the syrian press but if you look at these ten targets struck, virtually all have to do with chemical weapons, either the research and development, production, storage, or the employment or kpand and control there of and the two air bases involved in the recent attacks. so you know, the intelligence looked to be very good. and they have focused on the chemical weapons capability as they said they were going to do. so it s a pretty impressive list. now we don t know the extent of damage to the facilities. but if they were able to hit this target set it would put a real dent in syria as chemical weapons capability which is the focus of tonight s mission. general marks show us what alliance assets are in the area. sure will don. py orientation we know what syria looks like, capitol of damascus, homs one of the critical areas for chemical weapons storage. this is the assets routinely in
Produce and nuts the world has come to rely on. if the drought does its works, it could turn the part of america referred to as the world s salad bowl into a sand pit. cnn, california. 5:00 eastern, you re in the cnn newsroom i m poppy harlow. we are watching the movement aftermath and advances made by terrorists is and extremist groups in three parts of the world all made more unstable this weekend by more violence in syria where a group linked to al qaeda is closing in on the capitol of damascus in iraq where isis was pushed only to have lynchings fall in behind them. and in east africa where the extremist group al shabaab murdered 147 people on a university campus this week. some of the attackers were killed by police, but the group
Fighter jets had taken off from the u.k. for a base in cyprus which would have put them just a couple of hundred miles from the capitol, the syrian capitol of damascus. but those jets now according to the prime minister will not see any action. there will not be british participation in a military strike. that is the surprising and bottom line tonight, harris. hairs harls i understand there is really virtually no chance the u.s. would get any backing from the u.n. security council either. there are 15 members on the united nations security council. even if 14 of them voted in favor of military action, russia as a member of the permanent five on that body has a veto. they will veto any military action. and many other nations believe that the u.n. weapons enemier who s you see here need to be allowed to complete their work. leave syria as scheduled on saturday morning and then deliver their report in days or even weeks if it
Leader with a strong sense of syrian s hopes and fears. the syrian people will continue to benefit from his service. but it s orbit to undercore that leadership transitions are inevitable in any democratic process. reporter: but it is also on the other hand to underscore the opposition is terribly fractured. there irdifferent groups and precious little unity. shepard: yet they still seem to be taking the fight into the capitol of damascus. they are. there s been intense shelling, and one journalist in damascus reported counting more than 200 separate explosions today. some of those are shells we hear being fired by the rebels towards the presidential palace in damascus, but the vast majority of the barrage of motor shell fired back by government