closed captioning brought to you by invent help. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, the u.s. strikes several targets. the impact is being assessed right now. the u.s. president is making it clear that this is just the start of retaliation after the deaths of three americans in jordan. this is video from what appears to be one of those strikes early saturday morning local time. the mayor of this time says the strikes hit houses used for weapons storage. the pentagon says u.s. bombers hit 85 individual targets in iraq and syria. the u.s. says the locations were used by iran s revolutionary guards and by iranian backed militia. the pentagon says each was used by iranian backed groups. the video you saw comes from iraq on the border with syria. the attacks violated iraq sovereignty. the white house says iraq was notified before it unleashed it s military might. president biden released this statement. lets all those who seek to do us harm know this. if you harm a
trump s gag order is mostly upheld in the federal election subversion case. an appeals court admonishing the former president while giving him a green light to attack the special counsel, jack smith. also tonight, the new criminal indictment of hunter biden and the legal and political fall-out. the president s son accused of spending millions on a lavish lifestyle instead of paying his taxes. and the michigan gunman who killed four classmates at a school back in 2021 is now sentenced to life in prison without parole. the teenager hearing emotional statements from the victims families and then telling the court, and i m quoting him now, i am a really bad person. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, donald trump gagged again. an appeals court agreeing the former president of the united states should be barred from public statements about witnesses and other key
asked her sure. reminder, smarter, at your mom by morning. got it. got it. boss. daughter, you ve got this. we go for is in america thursday, july 4. they 70s dirt on see it in this is cnn breaking news hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield and we begin with this breaking news. several us military bases across europe are on heightened alert right now due to a potential terrorist threat and one of those bases, it in germany hey, where the u.s. european command is headquartered. a us official tells cnn that they haven t seen this threat level in at least ten years. joining me right now for the pentagon on his cnn correspondent, oren liebermann, or in watch the latest fredricka according to two us officials, at least several us military bases in europe have elevated or threat level to what s known as fp kohn charlie force protection condition, charlie. that is the second highest level of alert within the u.s military, only force prote
i think putting the politics aside, there are genuinely senators who feel torn at having watched that hearing last week. they feel like they watched christine blasey ford and saw someone who was credible and they were sympathetic to, and then they saw how extremely forcibly brett kavanaugh denied the allegations. when the time comes they want to be able to point to the fbi investigation and say, see, we did our extra due diligence, we made sure there was an extra investigation. but this is also why, wolf, the scope of the investigation is so, so important. obviously we are seeing right here in this twitter fight why the republicans and democrats are so not on the same page when it comes to the size and scope of the investigation. democrats and christine blasey ford s team would like something wider and broader and that gets to brett kavanaugh s conduct. stand by for a moment because breaking news is coming into the situation room , very disturbing room. five law enforcement officers