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being on. let s reset at the top of the hour now. i m anderson cooper. thank you for joining us. we re following two major breaking stories that the hour. the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. and i m wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. the other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. a lot to get you up to date on in this hour. president obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the airline crash in the ukraine. the priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. the u.n. security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. in order to facilitate that investigation. russia, pro-russian separatists and ukraine must adhere to an immediate cease-fire. evidence must not be ....
i had them take the test in the book and it said, have you ever been on a factory floor? were you raised in a neighborhood where over 60% of the people didn t go to college? if you get a chance to go to starbucks or mcdonald s for coffee, where do you go? do you know anybody who has whole milk in their refrigerator? because everybody else has skim milk? elitist. so part of it is that it s understandable, the good news is, it s based on merit advancement in many cases now, but the bad news is that these folks who were the people who are not the salt of the earth, they re the stuff that makes everything grow. and they re capable of so much more. that s why i think our focus on free college education, our focus on making sure that there s child care and get women back in the job market. our fox on things that are just basically simple fairness. minimum wage. i mean, people want to know that we really do my dad used to have an expression, chris. he said, i don t expect the g ....
confronting internal revolt over the house health care bill and his unsubstantiated claim that president obama wiretapped phones at trump tower. a lot of americans need to know. reporter: amid this turmoil, fbi director james comey could confirm today whether the bureau is investigating ties between trump s campaign and russia. leaders of a senate judiciary subcommittee also hopeful comey will also respond to their request to provide evidence regarding the wiretapping acquisition. they re about to screw up big time if they keep running to the intel committee and not answer that letter. reporter: earlier this week sean spicer qualified trump s accusation, but now he s sounding defiant. he feels very confident it will ultimately come of this, it will vindicate him. reporter: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle showing growing frustration about the white house s failure to provide any evidence to support trump s extraordinary claim. i think, frankly, the administra ....
casualties. there has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u.s. air campaign against the so-called islamic state. and under trump, a massive increase in u.s. drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u.s. foreign relations. today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u.s.-led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u.s. killed in a coalition air strike in syria. the pentagon blamed partner forces. that news comes on the heels of last week s air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. and we are just 84 days into the trump administration. i m joined by steve schmidt larry corb. larry, i m going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. he claimed during the came papa that you knew more about the generals, that he was smarter about isis, now he s in office he s ....
assumption that there is a price somehow for which kim jong-un and his predecessor, his father and his grandfather, would give up this nuclear program. i m not sure that s right because the nuclear program, to their mind, is the one thing that guarantees their survival. and the moment that they give it up, they re in the position that mow mar qaddafi was in when he gave up his nas entitle nuclear program in 2003. and he got a lot of promises of integration with the west and of course as soon as his people turned on him, the united states and europe and the arab states all joined in to drive him from power. the koreans were very, very aware of this and i would doubt that there is a price out there for which they would give up everything. and therein lies the big problem. let me go to you, ambassador. we tend to look at this through our own eyes, thinking like, why in the world would anyone want to risk being even using the artillery on the southern border north korea. as ot ....