Anywhere because i want to bring in christiane amanpour, who joins us now and christiane, you know, full well that the biggest one of the biggest concerns aside from hamas and hezbollah inside israel, maybe a bigger concern has been the kind of thing were seeing right now, which is iran, which has a very, very, very deep bench of very strong artillery and missiles. And it appears that they are using them right now indeed. And its incredibly important to be absolutely precise about whats going on so far, there is no evidence that anything has landed that it is being intercepted according to our correspondents, on the ground. And also the united states and israel said that the they assessed that the targets would the three israeli Air Bases and intelligence and an intelligence base, again, as our correspondents have said, thats very important to keep in mind. The second thing is that ive been speaking to Foreign Ministers from the region just today, the lebanese Foreign Minister, current
Ila i mean, he is one that tomorrow please donate. Now joining we are following Breaking News, iran launching a barrage of missiles into israel, major escalation in the conflict in the Middle East. Im Anderson Cooper alongside my colleague Wolf Blitzer. Weve witnessed missiles intercepted across israel a short time ago as Air Raid sirens went off on the ground below the israeli military now confirms some of those missiles made a direct impact in central and southern israel. Its estimated iran launched nearly 200 missiles, hundred projectiles iran says this attack was in response for the killing of Hezbollahs Leader Hassan Nasrallah and other assassinations a source says the israeli Security Cabinet is in their Emergency Bunker right down the israeli military says, irans attack and im quoting now will have consequences. The White House says both President Biden and Vice President harris are in the white House Situation Room monitoring the situation. Were standing by to get an immediate
we re just talking at the top of the show about the difference between joe biden and his approach to the press, not calling them enemies of the people, and donald trump, who not only called the press enemies of the people but wanted to send some to jail, threatened to send some to jail and now of course you have here donald trump because people protesting, asking secretary of defense why they couldn t just shoot the protesters. yeah, we ve had reports before that trump asked this but it certainly carries more weight coming from the former secretary of defense. and i think it is important to briefly reinstruct those days in late may and early june of 2020 where after george s death there were protests across the country including some big ones outside of the white house in lafayette park there. and one night, and only one did things get a little bit out of hand and there was a fire at a church nearby and that when trump and his family were put into the safe room, the emergency bunker
let s remember that there were peaceful condemnations, largely, at lafayette square in the days prior to this. now, certainly, there was an act of vandalism at the church, the northern end of the square, st. john s, where there was a fire. that, obviously, no one condones. that was the night that the president and his family were rushed down to the emergency bunker at the white house. something he, of course, found sort of humiliating and humbling and he wanted a strong message to push back. that s how this was hatched. we all came up with this idea for him to walk across the park and then at his daughter s suggestion, ivanka trump, display a bible in front of that damaged church. upside down or just wouldn t work. that was a key part of this, joe. overlooked by many. and, you know, so therefore, they wanted to clear the park so we could have that photo op. now, the protests that day had