Correspondent barbara starr is getting information. what are you learning about the syria attack? this is the largest single suicide attack against american troops in syria. tonight, isis far from defected. without warning, a suicide blast on the busy streets in northern syria. u.s. troops and civilians killed and wounded. people suddenly thrown to the ground. devastation in this commercial area where u.s. troops had been on what the u.s. military originally called a routine patrol. cnn has learned from u.s. officials the troops had a civilian intelligence expert with them, actually hoping to collect information about security and adversaries in the area. two u.s. troops, along with that civilian intelligence expert and a contractor were killed. three service members were wounded.
Basically saying for the second straight day the president will be basically behind closed doors, not making any kind of public statement during this government shutdown. a lid doesn t preclude the president from tweeting. right? reporter: that s right. he can tweet at any time. there s no lid on the tweeting as we know. it is rather striking, remarkable for nancy pelosi to say, president trump, you can deliver your state of the union in writing and the president seems so far to be not wanting to engage with the house speaker. see if he tweets about it. jim acosta, thank you very much. more breaking news coming in right now into the situation roo room . a georgia man has been arrested for allegedly plotting to attack the white house and other federal buildings. the fbi says the suspect planned to use homemade explosives and an anti-tank rocket. let s bring in josh campbell. a former fbi supervisory special agent. what are you hearing? as our officials in washington are talki
In response to isis taking responsibility for the suicide bombing in syria, just weeks after the president declared he had beaten the terror group, gop senator lindsey graham called on mr. trump to rethink his strategy. my concern by the statements made by president trump is that it set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we are fighting. i would hope the president would look long and hard before he said it in syria. reporter: the attack caught the white house flat footed even after they announced the deaths of u.s. troops. vice-president pence delivered a speech that stated the organization this been defeated. thanks to the leadership of this commander and chief and the courage and sacrifice of our armed forces, we re now actually able to begin to hand off the fight against isis in syria to our coalition partners and we are bringing our troops home. the caliphate has crumbled and
Isis. also this hour, the economic damage from the longest government shutdown in history is growing. we are tracking the impact. our national correspondent jason carroll is joining us from washington wall street. what s become painfully clear, whether you are watching what s happening here on wall street, or on main street, the longer this shutdown continues, the more it s going to start to affect the average american. worry it s taking its toll on the economy. the white house economic adviser admitting the administration underestimated the fallout. the damage is a little worse because of government contractors, something excluded from our first analysis. 800,000 federal workers
In danger. these weapons were all inert. you had fbi control over this operation. it shows this was someone predisposed to conduct an attack here in the united states. you read through this complaint and it describes that they had schematics of the west wing, white house compound. they noted where secret service officers were on the exterior of the building. they were attempting to distract them and bypass and conduct this attack. very chilling. we hear that this isis has been defeated. but there are people here in the united states who as of this arrest today shows that are predisposed to actually act with violence. one person i talked to noted he is not charged with terrorism as of this point. these are charges, attempting to attack a federal building. this person also noted, tieing this to the shutdown, that the fbi agents who have been working to stop this threat are not getting paid. i m reading this complaint. as you point out, it s chilling.