Its debate night in california but not for the frontrunner. Former President Trump is rallying for support in michigan but is he giving his rivals an opening to take on his growing legal troubles . And the u. S. Army private who crossed into korea is now back into u. S. Custody. The intense diplomatic war it took to bring him home and why north korea agreed to expel him with no concessions in the United States. Plus, hard liners are clashing with Speaker Mccarthy and hes blaming President Biden. Were following these developing stories and more all coming in here to cnn news central. Former President Trump will visit the Battleground State of michigan tonight while seven other republicans battle it out at the second president ial debate in california. Trumps skipping tonights debate. Instead, giving a prime time speech in front of current and former workers. A new york judge ruling that trump and his adult sons committed fraud for years by overvaluing their properties. We have Kristen H
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the president the next day uses the phrase mission accomplished . what s the danger there? well, i mean, look, secretary mattis is very thoughtful. general dunford, the chairman of jcs. they ve all been trying to be measured in the way they went about implementing the president s directives to, i think appropriately, send a strong military punishment to the syrians. don t use chemical weapons, particularly on civilians. maybe 80-some-odd instances by the way the syrians using chemicals on their own people. but at the end of the day, what they i think probably wisely decided to do is send a very measured, moderate strike on the syrians. these target sets were not crucial to the chemical warfare capability of the syrians at all. i mean we re not talking about the need for hundreds of metric tons of sarin gas and artillery shells such as we saw in the iran/iraq war. i m sure they have ample stock still concealed in populated areas.
the president the next day uses the phrase mission accomplished . what s the danger there? well, i mean, look, secretary mattis is very thoughtful. general dunford, the chairman of jcs. they ve all been trying to be measured in the way they went about implementing the president s directives to, i think appropriately, send a strong military punishment to the syrians. don t use chemical weapons, particularly on civilians. maybe 80-some-odd instances by the way the syrians using chemicals on their own people. but at the end of the day, what they i think probably wisely decided to do is send a very measured, moderate strike on the syrians. these target sets were not crucial to the chemical warfare capability of the syrians at all.
the president the next day uses the phrase mission accomplished . what s the danger there? well, i mean, look, secretary mattis is very thoughtful. general dunford, the chairman of jcs. they ve all been trying to be measured in the way they went about implementing the president s directives to, i think appropriately, send a strong military punishment to the syrians. don t use chemical weapons, particularly on civilians. maybe 80-some-odd instances by the way the syrians using chemicals on their own people. but at the end of the day, what they i think probably wisely decided to do is send a very measured, moderate strike on the syrians. these target sets were not crucial to the chemical warfare capability of the syrians at