With blake burman at the white house, gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange, Edward Lawrence is in d. C. And grady trimbull is in chicago with all of the news coming out of 1,600 pennsylvania, blake we start with you. Reporter hi there, connell the president s top advisors continue to insist the attack potentially directed by Qassem Soleimani against the u. S. Was imminent, as the secretary of state, mike pompeo, at one point saying that the president s advisors would have been negligent, had he not told the president he should have struck soleimani like he did. As far as the president goes he gave an interview today to foxs Laura Ingraham and said u. S. Embassies were at risk. Dont the American People have a right to know what specifically was targeted without revealing methods and sources . Well i dont think so but we will tell you probably it was the embassy in baghdad. So the large scale attacks planned for other embassies and if those were planned, why cant we r
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Fighter aircraft missiles, Missile Defense systems and air Defense Systems and then ships and particularly ships in an anti missile configuration. What this represents is the emerging technology or technology to stop that emerging technology. So i think what were seeing is a bow wave of spending trying to find a solution to these problems of cheap multiple drones and ballistic missiles, as well as maintaining conventional mass on the battlefield with artillery a wrong supreme data i to the human eye is praise the middle tree for its reason strike on israel, he said the on forces show the power and mice of the country. This is the 1st time supreme nita has spoken since iran launched to more than 300 missiles and tries. It is around a week ago that ron says it was a retaliation for an attack on the iranian can see that building and syria on the night was speaking during a meeting with ami come on, does get them turned to wish and the issue of how many missiles were fired with the number
Deconfliction channel. Of course, the russians are backing those Syrian Regime forces. And they backed up for about two hours, but then those Syrian Forces, pro Regime Forces, came back, started bombing the u. S. Backed forces again, and essentially, the u. S. Shot down the plane. A statement from the Coalition Said the u. S. And the coalition are not looking to get into an escalation with the Syrian Regime, but they have pledged to collective selfdefense, and thats defending and protecting those syrianbacked forces as they go against isis. Their statement says theyre not looking to create an escalation of events, but should this be regarded as an escalation in military action . Reporter well, i certainly dont think the u. S. Is regarding it as an escalation. We havent seen anything since then. We have to wait and see what this Syrian Regime will do. We have to wait and see what the russians will do, whether this will lead to an escalation. I certainly dont think the u. S. Is looking t
Major obstacle to Nuclear Weapons deal with north korea. Greg palkot in seoul, south korea and questions about whether the north actually dismantled its Nuclear Test Site but we begin as we usually do with chief White House Correspondent john roberts and talk that the historic summit could still happen. Good evening, john. Good evening to you, mike. Last week a team from the white house went to singapore to meet with the North Koreans to set up the whole summit. That team sat on the ground for three days. The North Koreans never showed there was word that they were going to go back again tonight. That was off and back on. Now there is talk swirling around the white house that, in fact, that team may be headed back to singapore to meet with the North Koreans to get this summit back on track some time this weekend. What a difference a day makes. 24 hours after he sent a letter to kim jong un canceling their summit. President trump today said it might be back on. Were going to see what ha