kidnapped in mexico. look at the video. you can see a man with a gun as people are being loaded into the back of this pickup truck. you also see a second man in a black shirt. you can see him in the video. he appears to be pulling the people into the bed of that truck. now the fbi says unidentified gunmen abducted the victims friday, shortly after they drove into the mexican border town southeast of mcallen, texas. cnn s kylie atwood joins us live from the state department. mexican authorities are expected to give an update any minute now. what are you hearing from u.s. officials, though? reporter: as you guys were saying, this happened on friday in northeast mexico. it s four americans who were kidnapped and assaulted in this area. now, according to one u.s. official, this was a case of mistaken identity. the folks that attacked them didn t know who they were, presumably, possibly didn t know that they were americans. but according to that u.s. official, they were visiti
A News Conference for the forest time since hamas brutal attack on israel nearly three weeks ago. Ainsley comes as ant Antony Blinken brian hostages are lobbying on capitol hill and demanding lawmakers did moray to bring their loved one home. Steve speaking of capitol hill. Im in washington as louisiana congressman mike johnson emerges as new front runner in the race for House Speaker. We could see a floor vote starting at noon today. Well talk about that in just a moment. Lawrence overseas, middle east troops are attacked four times. Brian they forgot to tell us that. Ainsley israel face attacks on their northern border from lebanon and syria. Brian is anyone going to answer their attacks . Trey yingst is on the ground in southern israel. Hey, trey. Reporter hey, guys, good morning. Were following a number of developments in the reon and a Northern Front and Southern Front is active inside the west bank and along the israel and gaza border we watched as israelis continued air strike a
Vetera ns has put a lot of pressure on veterans who avoided been through an awful lot. The government is the same label nb claims brought against vetera ns same label nb claims brought against veterans from the afghan conflict. This is a very popular move across the country. Yes, there may have been things that were wrong but where other word criminal acts they deserve to be investigated properly and we have had cases where service men have been jailed and we have had cases where service men have beenjailed for what they did, which was wrong. A lot of these issues clearly were not and there has been significant investigation that has found no basis to the allegations made. Now they are talking about the closure of this ongoing investigation. 3600 claims we re ongoing investigation. 3600 claims were looked at by the iraq historic Delegation Team and that will be down to 20. The most serious cases need to be investigated, but this Consta Nt Need to be investigated, but this constant numb
Mistaken identity that they thought these americans were related to some folks related to drug trades or the like. but we really don t know yet. it s speculative to go there and we ll wait to hear more information from the state department, from the fbi, from the mexican government. and we re expecting to hear from the mexican government as we mentioned any moment now. kylie atwood, thank you. now to ukraine where after months of fierce and bloody fighting russian forces may be on the verge of capturing the eastern city of bakhmut. [ gunfire ] now even as fighters, russian fighters, surround the city, ukrainian commanders are not withdrawing and instead calling on president zelenskyy to send in re-enforcements. cnn s melissa beln kyiv, ukraine, and oren lieberman is at the pentagon. melissa, mercenary fighters re seen planting their flag there. what can you tell us about what and what it signifies?
You are making the same argument. he shouldn t have said they are rapists, they are this drug dealers and that. some are good people. he shouldn t have said it. true or false? i disagree. i believe mr. trump was making his voice heard. he doesn t have the right to say it. it s wrong. most people are not rapists and drug dealers and some are okay. we have a significant number of these individuals the fact they are crossing the borders that s not what he said. many are getting involved in drug trades. not the way he suggested. i don t think he said in any proportion. he said they are coming over they are rapists and drug dealers. some i assume donald trump, unlike the other politicians, he doesn t read off a stump speech. he doesn t have a teleprompter. you are excuse zing it.