Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. This is cnn is continuing breaking News Coverage. If iran strike on israel im Christiane Amanpour in london alone inside my colleague, Alex Marquardt in washington. Now this morning, israel remains on high alert after iran launched and unprecedented fivehour attack on israel the idf says more than 300 missiles and drones were fired. The majority were fired from iran some were launched from iraq in yemen, they say only a few were able to pierce israels defenses hitting an airbase in southern part of the country causing minor damage. And there are no reports of injuries suffered directly from the strikes israel is now saying that the us, britain, as well as france also acted during these iranian strikes. Us forces intercepting more than 71 Attack Drones and based three Ballistic Missiles thats according to two us officials who are familiar with matter. The attack was in response to an israeli strike last week on
Reporter yeah, wolf. As you said. This is going to be a campaignstyle rally here in phoenix. One of several the president has held since the inauguration. Its actually going to be the furthest west that donald trump has gone since becoming president , and we should expect some familiar faces on hand with him. The Vice President , mike pence. His chief of staff, john kelly. Its also notable who is going to be absent from this rally. Arizonas two republican senators. Both john mccain and jeff flake, very critical of the president. Both of them had very harsh words for him after his response to the violence in charlottesville at that Press Conference in trump tower one week ago. And the president Didnt Hesitates when responding to that criticism, specifically from jeff flake. He took to twitter last week saying that the arizona senator is weak and a nonfactor in the senate. And praising his potential gop primary opponent dr. Kelly ward. Its unclear whether or not dr. The response hes gott
regard to factors that are of interest to america. in his mind. he wants america to basically determine the regimes all around and have to be regimes he likes and that he thinks that america should like. that is his modus operandi for a long time as you pointed out. tucker: it hasn t worked well. robert merry, it s great to see you. thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. tucker: clinton bingewall cofounded the interceptor and he joins tonight. the reaction of the president not going to war last night has been striking. it s very little celebration about it. in certain quarters out-right attacks. we played a tape of the cnn national security analyst attacking the president for it. liz cheney, the congresswoman from wyoming attacked the president. others did, too. what about washington makes war the first resort for both parties every time?
interest to america. in his mind. so he wants america to basically determine the regimes all around, and have to be regimes a he likes and that he thinks that america should like. that is his modus operandi for a very long time as you pointed out. tucker: it hasn t worked well. robert merry, it s great to see you. thank you very much. good to see you. thank you. yy tucker: glenn greenwald cofounded the interceptor and he joins tonight. the reaction of the presidentt not going to war last night has been striking. very little celebration about it. in certain quarters, out-right attacks. we played a tape of the cnn national security analyst attacking the president for it. liz cheney, the congresswoman from wyoming attacked the president. others did, too. what about washington makes war the first resort for both parties every time?
one of the reasons he s going to arizona in the first place, symbolism of visiting. at the wall, have an opportunity to talk about it. i do think this issue of afghanistan and how we deal with fortune wars is profound about the trump administration and breitbart is correct that trump sb bought into this war last night. acknowledged it wasn t going to end anytime soon. that isn t going away. underlining who is trump and is america first going to survive now that steve bannon is no longer in the picture. another risk this rally has tonight. this is a president who is probably aware of the way that breitbart covered this. probably aware of the fact his former chief strategist, steve bannon, is unhappy with him and ready to go out and knock him on this afghanistan decision and he now needs to go out tonight and reassure his base. he needs to rally his base. and one of the ways he does that often is by making controversial