all right. we start this friday night with a foxes alert tonight, retaliatory ai r that began in the middle east. according to the pentagon, the u.s. the military conducted strikes against iranian backed militiass in iraq and syria, striking more than 85 targets. the u.s. says, it had commandmad and control operations and intelligence centers and. t now, this comes after three american soldiers were killed, dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. wen launched by, of course, iranian proxies. iran is responsiblian proxe preh for all the trouble in the region. here are the very latest on jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. jennifer, any word on whgon. y the targets were not in iran considering? o they are the source of all of these proxy attacks and terror attacks. well, sean, officials who ik? spoke to said that they were ruling out striking inside iran an this first set of strikes and they want to messageing to g to iran that they ar
minutes? the lead starts right now. from iowa to new hampshire to the white house, candidate hit parade, kissed babies, and tried to make their case face to face with voters with one notable exception. then a burst of blast, but not fireworks. three more mass shootings in texas, indiana, and philadelphia are the latest sites of a uniquely american tragedy. plus, hidden cameras in the women s locker room exposed a troubling pattern of sexism and abuse. in this case, it was the police behind the offense. see what a cnn investigation reveals, and meet the brave women who want answers. welcome to a special edition of the lead. i m abby phillip in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. today is independence day in america, but it is no holiday for the many who are hoping to become the country s next commander in chief. republicans are all out on the campaign trail in the key battleground states of iowa, new hampshire, where voters pride themselves on getting
and while the world searches for the missing owner of a dime bag, he puts a dim his feet uphl and chills at camp david. maybe it s because hunters ba is innocent. reports are the bidenshe left cam isp david on fridayon i and the coke wasn t found until sunday. it is pretty hardad to believes. cocaine would sit around for 70 2 hours in the white house, so therefore, it should be pretty easy to clear the bidens. i m just saying once and for al clear the.l, whether or not e belonged to the biden familythe so a couple of things there. he mentioned the hatch act because. the question was posed to him in the donald and using donald trump. and so he was trying to be very mindful, oh t, okay, i hear you. but you re asking me a question, so i m answering it fou ar ngr you. and so that s why he said the hatch act. so i would i would, you know, th have you read the transcript and read the transcript fully tr exactly what he was trying to say. so that s number one. so we re not a
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and in some cases until today to even comment on this scandal. now, the first tactic.hi it s no big deal. this is saying that the irs wanted actually tougher charges for hunter biden. it s not unusual forl fo investigators and prosecutorsth to have disagreements beforeey they you know, as you go through these cases, how many times do they have disagreement they ha way? alonga all the time. yeah, all the time. i mean, this is the waf thy thi is part of the process. this is the way that it and it s what we wan e t. onl this is what we want. well, that s the only honest thing said that exchange.co oh, that, of course, refusesurse to acknowledge the most incredible claim of all thatjoe joe was in the room where it happened when hunter was demanding money for his family from a chinese businessman, which are all ccp approved, ofe. course. here s how they cover that. hewe have not verified it s basd on a whatsapp. we don t know the verification of that. we don t know whether