Oh, wow. Oh, what, what . What . I love. Tonight, events in The Middle East spiraling out midd. Trol i an airstrike at a hospital in gaza has left hundreds dead. But its not what it seems. Hamas claims israel struck the hospital. Israel denies struc it. Fault they say a Faulty Hamaset Rocket fired from gaza hit their own hospital. Number one, israe numl does r target places like hospitals. Theyre not a target for us. S ouldnt and we wouldnt have deliberately hit a hospital. Number two, we know that at the time of the of this tragedyt that hamas was firing a barrage of rockets at tel aviv and thevr center of the country. The idf has just released Surveillance Footage showinghed a rocket launch towards israel, igniting midflight and thendire propelling directly down into gazactly. There that is right there, the surveillance Camera Timestamp also directlyo th corresponds to the moment the hospital was struc thek. The idf also reportedly have recorded a Conversatio N among jihadists that l
Telling him, that there was great risk here based on this decision. paul: and the risk extends the, as the generals made clear, to counterterror operations now going forward. i was surprised that they were as forth right as they were in suggests with having as much skepticism as they did about the ability of u.s. to control terror bases or new terror groups in afghanistan. did that surprise you? yeah. well, it did in terms of, yeah, you re right, the directness of it all. and i think there s been so much speculation around this testimony that somehow, some way they would not be forthright, but i know these people, i knew they would be. you know, it does it started, i believe, with general milley when he labeled the operation a strategic failure. and the reason, we have a terrorist organization running afghanistan, something nobody wanted. and he mentioned it damaged our relationship and and credibility
US is reportedly in talks with countries bordering Afghanistan about housing "over the horizon" counterterrorism operations that would allow the US military to more easily surveil and strike targets in the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Healed, do you think? i mean, there s still the scars here, but has the city. the city has done remarkably well. even better than i thought it would. i asked the people of this city the night of september 11th to be stronger as a result of this, and they ve more than exceeded my expectations. i think that, however you judge a city, this city is a stronger and better city now. more people come here, more tourists come here, more people live here. the economy of the city is doing better than the economy of the country, which is pretty unusual for a major city in any country, so i think this city has healed to the extent that it can. but is it a city that lives with apprehension? i mean, i guess it has to. associated press reported just a couple of days ago that 1,000 new york city police officers, day by day, on average, are assigned to counterterror operations. i think it would be