Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im 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, prorussian separatists
and ukraine must adhere to an immediate ceasefire. Evidence must not be tampered with. Inves
Tense relationship with the cold war adversary is getting tense still. The chill is growing and rhetoric is heating up as new facts emerge in the investigation. Well cover all the angels tonight. We go live to phil black in a moment, the only correspondent to get access to the crash site and we will as always, take time and great care to try to remember the lives, to honor the lives of the men, the women and the children on board flight 17. Images from inside Malaysia Airlines flight 17 before take off yesterday as the 298 passengers and crew prepare for the journey. A surface to air missile downed the commercial jet, who is responsible for the act is still unknown. But take a look at this video released by the Ukrainian Government. It shows a system, the same kind believed to shut down the plane driving through prorussian territory. Look closely, notice one missal missing. The video saying to be taken off the plane was shot down. A Senior Defense official says the theory is russia pro
Of representatives is looking more like a house of cards. Dana bash reports. Reporter there is congressional chaos, then theres this. A republican meeting to vote for a new speaker ending abruptly after the frontrunner, Kevin Mccarthy shocked everyone. Suddenly dropping out of the race. You were behind him. Are you stunned . Yeah, totally stunned. No idea tf coming. You were just in there, what happened . Kevin mccarthy, just like john boehner did, put the country and the congress and the conference before his own interests. It was a very honorable thing to do. He recognized and shared with the congress that he was afraid his candidacy might further divide the caucus and the party across the country. Behind closed doors thats exactly what Kevin Mccarthy told his colleagues. I think i shocked some of you, huh . A a and. Reporter and what he repeated to reporters after the News Conference got out. If were going to remain united and strong, we need a new face to do that nothing more than
Officially lost and still officially hanging on. Filing a complaint overnight to delay the certification of the special Election Results in alabama. In a late night filing his Campaign Quotes three so called Election Integrity experts who believe voter fraud occurred. The campaign also says he took a polygraph test proofing allegations of Sexual Misconduct that derailed the campaign are false. You remember he lost to doug jones earlier this month. The alabama secretary of state is scheduled to certify the results today unless the new court filing forces a delay. Jones is expected to be seated early next year narrowing the republicans advantage in the senate to just 5149. President trump touting his legislative record but might be giving himself a bit too much credit. A surprise visit to a West Palm Beach fire house he claimed he signed the most legislation of any president. That doesnt exactly pass the fact check. He also got back on the golf course. Not that we can prove it because a
Probably more unified and wealthier as a group than ever before. Paul joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan henninger, Editorial Board member mary kissel and Columnist Bill mcgurn. So dan, did the transalantic Alliance Survive the visit by hurricane trump . Hurricane trump, yeah, i guess they did. You know, paul, theres an old expression from t movies, detectives, good cop, bad cop. Usually its played by two different people not by the same guy. [laughter] but trump is good cop, bad cop and indeed in the morning of nato meeting he whipped them over spending and by the evening hes saying there was more love in the room than you can imagine. [laughter] its pretty confusing, you know, the statement that nato put out, lets talk about that. 80 of it was explicitly about russia, i mean, europe, the nato allies have a big problem with russia and have a long particularlies f nato is allied to do it is because of the russian threat, but there wasnt too