president joe biden retaliating tonight, five days after three army reservists were killed in attack on jordan, strikes across iraq and syria is the beginning of what will likely be strikes on iran backed militias making attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east and will continue at times and places of our choosing unquote. while avoiding a full scale blow up with iran in a region already in turmoil over the israel-hamas war all this on the day the president performed one of the most solemn duties of the commander-in-chief, attending to the dignified return of the three american soldiers killed in the attack in jordan on sunday. tonight we are covering all aspects of this breaking news. orrin lieberman at the pentagon ben wedeman. orrin what do we know about these strikes in iraq and syria tonight. laura a series of strikes that are order of magnitude larger than what we have seen the u.s. do the last couple months simultaneous strikes in iraq syria seven different location
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commitment to he spond militarily if china intervenes in taiwan. we agree with one china policy. we signed onto it and all the attendant agreements made from there. but the idea that it can be taken by force is taken by force is just not appropriate. it will dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in ukraine. cnn is live for us this morning in tokyo. hi, kevin. you know, the president catching some off dpafd with that commented on taiwan. what is the white house saying now? i know china has responses as well. yeah, some of the president s aids were caught off guard. they should be, the u.s. long adhered to the policy of strategic ambiguity. they will provide the defensive weapons against invading. they won t necessarily spell out what they would do if china were to invade. so the white house says the us policy hasn t changed, essentially saying the president didn t mean what he said. with enthe president was speaking. he said something
the man who admitted shooting him had been identified as hispanic or white hispanic. there s disputes over whether zimmerman used a racial slur when he called 911 after the shooting. but right now, the public has seen no definitive evidence that race played a role in this incident. still, that s not at all stopping all this rhetoric. you have a white supremist hacker claiming h he broke into trayvon martin s e-mails accounts and has evidence show heavyweight s a drug dealer. we re seeing more even more examples of this each and every day. there are so many people who see racial come poebt to this case. ment as you have been watching the coverage of this case, what do you find most troubling? well, i think what s most troubling i can t help think back to rodney king, back to the o.j. trial and the fact that this case is becoming increasingly racially polarized and quickly getting to the point where i don t think we re going to be able to talk about this case and talk about t
don t feel as though you re doing enough to control gas prices. what did the president say? we ll hear his response. former news of the world editor rebecca brooks is arrested. they arrested the former aid and five other people. it stems from the alleged phone hacking scandal that now closed the newspaper. we begin this hour in depth in afghanistan and a reality check on the safety of american troops there. antiamerican protests are boiling up again two days after a killing spree. the taliban vowing to avenge the killings by beheading americans anywhere in the country. the suspect of the attack, a u.s. army sergeant, has been moved to a safer confinement area in kandahar. a fou hours ago defense secretary leon panetta arrived in the region. he ll try to shore up the strained relationship between the two alleys as it threatens to unravel. also this morning, unsurge gents opened fire on a delegation of afghan rebels as they visited the site of the massacre. one brothe