contractor inside syria, plus a trump lawyer testifying in front of a federal grand jury in the classified documents case, but the former president s attention is on new york. he calls the manhattan prosecutor a degenerate and he recklessly warrants of death and destruction if he is charged with a crime, and right now president biden meeting with his counterpart to the north prime minister, justin trudeau, the visit happening in the united states and canada strike a new deal too slow or growing migrant search. now, though, we begin with the commander in chief moment for the president of the united states. president biden signing off retaliatory airstrikes in eastern syria. social media video. you see it here, capturing the smoldering fire fury of american missiles fired from f 15 fighter jets president hitting back in iran after a kamikaze drone flew directly into a coalition base, killing a contractor and wounding five other u. s service members. cnn obtaining video of ambul
this iranian drone suspected iranian journal i should say it was a one way attack drone and it attacked infrastructure, essentially the u. s military base there in northeastern syria, and it exploded on impact right. it was targeting very specifically that base and we re also told that the us deliver. really targeted facilities in syria that it believed were being used by iranian proxy groups to store munitions and also for intelligence gathering reasons. but look, this is not the first time that the us has conducted this kind of airstrike targeting iranian proxy groups in the region. in fact, the us has about 900 troops in syria as you mentioned and they have really undergone multiple attacks from these iranian proxy groups over the last two years, as many as 78. attacks according to the commander of central command general eric carola, carola, also in testifying to lawmakers last week, he did say that the us is changing its defensive posture in syria to better protect us personnel. b