grilled by us lawmakers and legal peril for donald trump. soon a federal grand jury will hear testimony from the former president s own lawyer. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. and we begin with tip for tap air strikes in syria after a deadly attack on u. s personnel deployed to fight isis. the pentagon says it launched a retaliatory strike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the eastern part of the country that followed a drone attack on u. s forces in syria, killing a u. s contractor and wounding six other americans. let s bring in cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson live in london, nick what more are we learning? well this retaliatory strike on groups affiliated with the iranian revolutionary guard corps who are believed to be responsible for that drone strike that killed one contractor wounded five u. s servicemen and another u. s service contract to their this retaliatory strike is being called
innovation. ainsley: so good, so good. brian: this is ainsley happy hour. ainsley: being from the carolinas, we play this a lot. brian: what is the story neil young, neil diamond wrote this about caroline kennedy when she was a little kid? i also heard it was about a babysitter. do you know anything about this, pete? i have no further details. no report. nothing but speculation. i will have to defer to ainsley on this one. ainsley: those are the rumors. i have never looked it up to confirm it. let me see. history of sweet caroline. neil diamond rented a house in my town. massapequa he had a piano in a basement. some say he wrote about a baby-sitter he had there. other people say it s not the story. ainsley, what have you got? ainsley: this says different explanations for the song s origin according to wikipedia. in an interview he stated the inspiration ever the song was for sara line kennedy. hold on, i have to click on it to read the rest of it. here we go.
track in the country killed a u.s. contractor. five u.s. troops and another contractor was kilt will not wounded. prepared to forcefully protect our people. norah: when a telco takes the stand after a ski collision. tonight, the mystery of missing footage of the crash. i was skied directly into by mr. sanderson. xcel energy said it discovered a new small leak of water contaminated with tritium. can t penetrate your skin. the cause of the leak has not yet been determined. not many people get to return to the scene of their death. what does that feel like, when all is said and done and you ve saved a life? it s honestly one of the best feelings in the world. good to see you. i love you, man. norah: that evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. we want to begin with growing concerns about violence, as donald trump is using increasingly ominous and threatening rhetoric as his legal challenges amount. the top democrat in the house mor
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfasc
come in and supply ukraine with so much money, and so many weapons. but this is a significant escalation from vladimir putin. the fact that he s calling up the reservists shows that he has no intention of backing away from this war. in fact, in his comments, he framed the war not against ukraine, he described this as a war against the west. and that the west, he didn t mention the united states, but clearly, that s the main power he s referring to, has been propping up ukraine and intends to bring down russia and bring down the russian federation the same way that the west primarily the united states, toppled the soviet union. so he is framing this very much as an existential fight for russia. and in order to fight this fight, he s calling up the reservists and making nuclear threats to show that he is serious and that he has no intention of backing down. so, richard, is there a sense this could lead to some sort of nuclear standoff? i think that is where this is heading.