Breaking news, were told Kamala Harris has yet to make a final decision on a Running Mate less than 24 hours before shes scheduled to appear alongside her vp well have the newest information on Harriss Selection Process and the timing of her highstakes announcement, also breaking President Biden and Vice President harris just wrapped up an urgent national Security Meeting in the white House Situation Room. Us officials warning that an iranian Revenge Attack on israel could be imminent. And Stock Prices plunged with the Dow Jones industrials closing down more than 1,000 points as Recession Fears sent shockwaves through the u. S. And global markets are those fears backed by the numbers welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, Will Blitzer is on assignment im Jim Sciutto and youre in the Situation Room the skis cnn Breaking News we begin with Breaking News on the final critical hours before Kamala Harris reveals her Running Mate, to democrats and to the world lets
In peoria because if you watched the video of all the agents standing on top of the roof next to the body of the gunman, theyre not having any difficulty standing there. The Fbi Isnt having difficulty standing up there collecting evidence. Numerous video feeds of people standing up there. The slope of the roof doesnt look that steep to me. The roof where the counter sniper team, that is a steep roof, but theyre used to getting on those. You know, Patrol Officers get on roofs all the time. On various calls for burglaries and so forth. So theyre not afraid to get on that roof. I hope theyre not going to try to settle that to the congress because theres a loser. Youre going to lose denying the obvious that you could have got an officer on that roof. Secondly, you Cant Slough this responsibility off to the township police. The responsibility remains always with the Secret Service to protect the life of their principal. In this case, former president trump. And you made a great point, chris
Good evening, i am Chris Jansing. Special coverage of the Assassination Attempt on former president Donald Trump. Next hour, President Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office with a critical question lingering in the minds of congress and the country. How could this happen . And at this hour, we do have some new information for you. A senior secret Service Source familiar with the planning of Yesterdays Event tells Nbc News that the roof was a well known, highpriority vulnerability. It was identified just the day before during a Security Walk through. We have also just learned that there were two Counter Sniper teams on site, and that the Counter Sniper did not need approval to shoot. One source telling Nbc News that prior protocols were not followed the fbi announces the alleged shooter, 20 rolled thomas Matthew Crooks , appears to have acted alone. This all provides new context for the shocking scene Last Night in butler, pennsylvania, already burned into our collective co
The right to choose her own lawyer as she tries to regain control of her personal affairs. Hello and welcome to the programme. Unbelievably bad thats the verdict of the former us president , George W Bush on the decision to withdraw us troops from afghanistan. Mr bush, who sent forces in after the 9 11 attacks on america, also said afghan women faced Unspeakable Harm at the hands of the taliban. The former president was speaking to german television. The progress that can be made for young girls and Women In Afghanistan is unbelievable, how that society changed, from the brutality of the taliban, and now all Of A Sudden, you know, sadly, im afraid afghan women and girls are going to suffer Unspeakable Harm. Is it a mistake . The withdrawal . I think it is. I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad, and im sad. I spent a lot of time with afghan women, and they are scared, and i think about all the interpreters and people that helped, not only us troops but nato troops, a
Hussein. He responded by crushing them and millions of kurdish iraqis fled. They fled into the mountains of Northern Iraq, they were trying to save themselves and their families. Turkey wouldnt let them cross the border, they had nowhere else to go. Saddam was after them in a genocidal of rage. The un ended up setting up what was intended to be a safe zone for the kurds in Northern Iraq, it was protected by no fly zone. It was an international coalition effort. Lots of groups provided help there to. That inherently unstable situation lasted five years. But, in 1996, Bill Clinton is now president , saddam attacked and the Coalition Forces that were protecting the iraqi kurds they backed out, they left. The reasons for that and the consequences of that are dark and complex, and that is a longer story. In the immediate moment in 1996 when that happened, the u. S. Realized that it had a big short term, simple, urgent, moral and strategic catastrophe on their hands. In the five years since