today the pentagon was finally forced to admit the details of the growing number of attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east. so far iran affiliated organizations have launcheds 12 attacks against our troops in iraq and another 4 in syria. now, the news comes as israel s ramping up its strategic strikes inside gaza ahead of a full-fledged ground invasion. we will have a live report from jerusalem in moments. but we start tonight in lewiston, maine, where police have launched a massive manhunt for the man suspected of killing 18 people go different locations. surveillance video showed an individual heavily armed at the scene of these shootings. he was later identified as robert card, an army reservist, with documented mental health issues. now, at this hour, the search for the alleged killer continues. of course, as darkness falls, temperature drops, law enforcement sources tell fox that there are multiple surveillance aircraft scouring the area that are equipped with heat se
And that is even as he was not able to own firearms. he was a felon, because he pleaded guilty to a battery of trying to strangle his wife nearly a decade ago. the story is so crazy, not just because of what these men were able to get away with, but how long they were able to do it undetected. and the fact that they could become so close to the very people who are trained to have a sense about these things, and to be on the lookout for anyone who might try to infiltrate. the biggest thing, what we really heard from prosecutors today, arguing that they are a flight risk, is that there may be a connection here, although the dots aren t completely connected shun, but there may be a connection here to pakistani intelligence. but it is still not completely clear who funded them, and what their objective was. right. so the common as i understand is these to get impersonated dhs agents, and got badges, and gear, and kit, that made them look like they were. then they went around, and they me
Judgment, for senators on either side of the aisle to prejudge the evidence. reporter: senator susan collins of maine criticizing mcconnell s vow to work in total coordination with the white house in the president s impeachment trial. revealing she is now open to witnesses in the coming proceedings. collins, now the second senator to be critical of mcconnell. she follows alaska republican lisa murkowski, who says she is disturbed by his comments. on the other side of the aisle, their own potential flip votes to worry about. senator doug jones, a democrat from deep red alabama, up for re-election in 2020. he s now calling on the senate to allow witnesses for a full, fair and complete trial in a washington post op-ed, but he has signaled he s open to siding with republicans in a final vote. if those dots aren t connected and there are other explanations that i think are consistent with innocence, i will go that way, too. and kyra phillips is with the president in west pal
Relations. this ukraine saga really has rattled relationships between the united states and ukraine, precisely what russia wanted. and so i think mike pompeo is there to reassure them that the u.s. will be standing by the ukraine side. joel, to garrett s point, we haven t seen any cracks in the republican position on impeachment, but on the democratic side, bam senator doug jones is being eyed as a potential defector. here s what he said last week. i ve been trying to read this, i m trying to see if the dots get connected. if that is the case, and i think it s a serious matter and i think it s an impeachable matter. but if those dots aren t connected and there are other explanations that i think are consistent with innocence, i will go that way, too. so nbc news interviewed alabama voters who break down into three categories. we ve got republicans who won t vote for jones no matter what he does, democrats who are willing
Aid was being withheld? so far, katy, we haven t heard any response from the president or from any staff down in florida with him to the article in the times itself. the president continues to tweet about the impeachment hearing in the senate, the trial, continues to go after nancy pelosi, but nothing about this article and give than this president is such an avid consumer of news about himself and he often reacts very quickly to stories he doesn t like, it tells you either he s fine with this, that he doesn t see this story as all that problematic, or that there is still trying to formulate some sort of response and really haven t come up with what to say just yet. what about the optics of mike pompeo going to ukraine, even as the president still, eli, hasn t had a white house meeting with him and as a president has just been impeached by the house. what do you make of the optics? this is peak awkwardness. you saw the second come out