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venezuela. and this is cnn this is cnn breaking news we're following breaking news into cnn from capitol hill, a joint senate committee hearing on the attempted assassination of donald trump is still underway. the brand new acting director of the secret service, ronald rowe, admitting under oath that there were security failures at that trump rally in butler, pennsylvania, that he cannot defend. and that have left him a shamed. but so far, none of the agents in charge of protecting trump has been fired. that fact, leaving some lawmakers fuming you're asking me, senator, to completely make a rush to judgment about somebody failing. >> i acknowledged this was a failure of is it not prima facia that somebody has failed the former president was sure. sir, this could have been our texas school book depository i have lost sleep over that for the last 17 days. and just like somebody's i won't tell you i will tell you, senator, that i

will not rush to judgment, that people will be held accountable, and i will do so with integrity and not rush to judgment and put people unfairly persecuted barely, sir, we have to be able to have a proper investigation into this. senator also in the hot seat today, fbi deputy director paul abbott his agency preparing to interview trump about his recollection of the shooting that killed one rally attendee and left others wounded. >> cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is here with us. evan, obviously this is the latest in a series of congressional hearings on the attack. what have you heard today that has stood out to you? >> well, look, i mean, i think this is the most meaningful hearing as far as the amount of information we're getting, certainly from the secret service, you know, paul abbate and the fbi gave us an update yesterday that provided a lot of what he just said today, but certainly for the secret service and for ronald rowe he

is now forcefully saying that he went to the the roof the her building where the shooter took aim at the former president something by the way, that the former director did not do before her hearing. so he went there and, you saw these extraordinary images that he showed at this hearing where he showed you the vantage point from the roof, the nearby roof where according to the information we got from the hearing today, local law enforcement snipers were supposed to be keeping watch. it appeared that at least during part of that one or more of them perhaps left their post to go find this suspicious person that was being reported by other law enforcement that was a very big piece of information finally, get some clarity about what happened there. but you could see the outrage that he shared during the hearing them. now, listen to this exchange with senator durbin, where he describes some of the lack of communication that happened with law enforcement, the local law

enforcement listen i think he was identified as being suspicious by local law enforcement and nothing happened while i know that local law enforcement was attempting to locate him. >> would you say the roofing unattended, breaches standard protocol for setting up a security perimeter what i would say centers that that roof should have had better coverage and we will get to the bottom of if there were any policy violations and boris, we also heard from the acting director. he said he has been losing sleep certainly thinking about some of the lapses, especially this one the secret service has a system to defeat drones. we know the shooter operated a drone on the parrot on the periphery of the rally site. he operated that drone about two hours before donald trump took the stage what we know is that the secret service has a, has a system that could defeat drones. it wasn't operating at

that time. we didn't become operational until 5:00 p.m. and the reason why is because they didn't have enough local cellphone coverage. so that was another part of the lapses and failures that happened when that day or one of many eye-opening details that we've learned from this hearing, evan perez. thank you so much. we want to go now to cnn, senior national security analyst and former assistant secretary of homeland security, juliette kayyem juliette great to see you as always. what were your biggest takeaways from what we've heard so far from acting director row i wanted to put his testimony and disorder to pools. >> the first is the safety and security wine, which is the most important than the political he was a breath of fresh air. he's exactly chloe, what the secret service needs at this stage, he took responsibility for what happened. was contrite and somewhat shameful about just what so was so glaringly obvious to those of us seeing it he talked about what

specific gaps there were. so we learned about why the drones warrant for the counter drones weren't up. we learned about the communications challenges between texts and radio. but my big takeaway on the safety and security, which i think will help the secret service in the future, is what he talked about in terms of assumptions, he said, basically we just make assumptions about state and locals. he didn't throw them under the bus and he said, the secret service and there in their responsibility as leaders to protect the nominee and former president needed to challenge those assumptions. stress test them. i'll put them under duress because clearly that gap in coverage which we all know existed was there. so that's i think i think it was helpful. i think it was illuminating. i think it will help the most important thing is that it's going to get the secret service to fill in the gaps that we obviously saw on the politics side, i will say, i have never seen i mean, he was good. i mean, look, they

they want the senators want some blood he's not going to give it to them yet wants a thorough investigation about what happened. we'd have to assume agents are going to be fired at some stage, but he's not going to do it on the senator or political timeframe. that's hard to do as an acting maybe maybe he's just feels like he has nothing else to lose. but i thought what in that regard, he really did quiet some of the gop clamor which is important because we have an election with the threat environment as high as it is. >> juliette kayyem appreciate your perspective. we're of course going to keep monitoring this joint hearing as we get new details, brianna, let's talk about this now with democratic congressman jason crow of colorado. >> he is the ranking a remember of the newly created by partisan task force that is investigating the assassination attempt of former president trump i wonder congressman, what your biggest concern is coming? coming out of this hearing? >> well, first off, the

american people deserve answers and they're going to get them, which is why last week something pretty significant happened in the house and that is every member of the house of representatives voted to create this task force, 4162 zeros every voting member voted to create it because this is a moment for us to, in a nonpartisan and bipartisan way, to get answers about a very trial i blamed incident this should not have happen. there were clear failures here. we're going to find out where they occurred, who needs to be held accountable and importantly, what do we need to do to fix it to make sure it doesn't happen again, there's no tape or record of communications which would certainly be helpful, right. coming out of that day, there were connectivity issues as well that we've learned prevented the secret service from detecting the shooter actually flying a drone just a couple of hours before trump was on stage. let's listen to this part of senator chuck grassley actually questioning the acting director about that why is the secret service

dependent upon local cell cellular network? >> does the secret service have a backup plan in place? >> yes. thank you, senator and that is something that i briefed in the closed door. and again, something that has cost me a lot of sleep because of the eventual outcome of the assailant that what if we did geo located him because that counter uas platform had been up it is something that i have struggled with to understand and i have no i have no explanation for it. >> it seems like there were so many holes that day that certainly aligned and there were a lot of them to align and have something fall through the cracks does it strike you as a one-off problem? of that day or does this seem to you to be something very systemic? >> what we have right now is

mainly questions and very few answers, which is why we created this task force to get those answers. and we're going to have to follow a very methodical well process. because as you noted, there appear to have been many failures, right? not securing the counter drone perimeter or not securing the rooftop. interoperability of communications between the local law enforcement and the secret service. you many things seem to have fallen through the cracks or gone unaccounted for. so what we're gonna do is we're going to conduct an investigation that starts from the very beginning. we're going to look at the chronology. we're gonna look at who is involved. we're going to compare that against the protocols that were in place. the guidelines that the secret service and others were supposed to follow we're going to see what wasn't followed, and we're also going to look at what new needs to happen, right? are there new guidelines, other new protocols, new training and technology that need to be implemented given the situation and the era that we're in right now, that we need to better resort course as well as you make recommendations. how will there be oversight by congress,

by dhs to make sure that the secret service is implemented hunting them. >> well, this is the beginning of that process, right? what congress has decided to do, and this is the right answer, is, put all of the investigations under the umbrella of this task force. so you don't have committees fighting over jurisdictions, you don't have dueling hearings. it's all going to be done by this task force and we're going to do it very quickly because we need to do it quickly. security is very important, so we're going to issue a report to congress by mid-december it's going to look holistically at what needs to happen and how to fix it. and then we'll have a broader discussion of both in congress and with the american people about what accountability and changes are necessary. sorry, i think many people just lay people observing what has been reported were surprised to learn that all of the folks on the ground in charge of security, local law enforcement when the secret service, they're not actually talking to each other. >> they're kind of playing a game of telephone and senator asif was asking the acting director today about local law

enforcement the talking to secret service, and he said it would take months of planning to be able to do that. it seems that it would be impossible do you think that should be a goal of secret service? >> well, it does appear to be a huge problem the lack of communications and crosstalk, as we say, and i was a special operator in the army and the rangers. and one of the hardest things, but also the most important thing as for units to be able to talk to one another across units, across jurisdictions multinational operations, it's a difficult thing to achieve. but if you don't achieve it, everything else can fail. i'll apart, right? so it's actually the essential task is make sure that there is communication between units and those that need to be able to talk to each other. and it does appear as though that happened in this case. so certainly going to be one of the key aspects of things are going to look into here. >> yeah, you know what happens when people can't talk to each other. and i know you'll bring that to this task. force, congressman. thank you so much, really appreciate your time. >> boris we're following more

breaking news into cnn this out of the middle east, according to hezbollah run team the agency, a loud explosion has been heard in these southern suburbs of beirut. >> let's take you there live with cnn's ben wedeman. ben, what more are you learning about this explosion? >> of course, we know that within the last half hour there was a large explosion in what's known as the hottest headache neighborhood of southern beirut. that's an area where many of the leaders of his butler have been known to operate. now, we don't have a lot of details we know that some local channels are saying that the one of the building hit was a residential building. we don't know about casualties at this point. it says go seems to be a fairly chaotic scene. we have seen pictures of smoke rising hey, seen from that part of the city but certainly that

is what we know at this point. it is the first first time the southern suburbs of beirut have been hit since early january when the israelis killed a senior hamas leader who was in that area. but as i said, this is the first strike since then, and hezbollah has made it very clear all along that. if he route is struck. they will answer accordingly. they have said that they will meet escalation with escalation in the aftermath of last after days attack on the golani to see the israeli occupied syrian golan heights that left 12 children dead. so perhaps this this is the first major israeli response to that attack. >> boris and ben, just to be clear, when this you're saying this happened in the beirut suburbs, can you give us some? specificity on what has belonged might see as an

attack, maybe beirut proper versus in the suburbs, will this matter? >> well, we call it, it's called the beirut suburb dahia in arabic. but it really is part of this the city of beirut. it's between where i am down by vin port and the airport. so it really is beirut proper, despite what we call it. and of course, that has been made clear time and time again by hezbollah that that's a red line now just, the other day i spoke with the foreign minister of lebanon, who told me that they through diplomatic channels, they had received assurances from there friends, he called them that beirut that the israeli response would be limited and the lebanese government interpreted that is meaning that beirut southern suburbs of beirut and the air

port would not be targeted. that perhaps was not a very correct interpretation of those so-called assurances no ben, please stand by for us in beirut. want to bring in cnn military analyst, former general mark hertling, who's joining us now, live general. thank you so much for being with us walk us through this significance of these explosions happening in beirut. and specifically what would give you evidence or what would suggest to you that this was in fact an idf led attack we have nothing that leads to that just yet, boris, it's a possibility of an idf attack. >> usually it's not done this early even in the evening after sunset, the idf usually to wait until the later hours of the evening where they can assure that there's no collateral damage on civilian casualties when they conduct a strike. but when you're talking about explosions, you don't really know where they come from and again, i would suggest because

this is lebanon and this is beirut, that there is the potential for other types so the explosion in this area, so you can't conclude anything just yet. >> i do general. i do want to stop you there because israel is now israel is now claiming responsibility for this strike in southern beirut. so obviously that's important information and changes your calculus of how you're seeing it's explain the significance now that we know that we just literally got that in the israeli military saying that it carried out a targeted strike in southern beirut well brianna thanks for being the scout on the screen line right there. is as you've confirmed it, then you can talk about it a whole lot differently. the thing that i was about to say, ben's reporting about promises of knock striking are having limited strikes, doesn't necessarily mean they're not going to strike and beirut, there are areas there in around the capital where hezbollah has centers. let's just call them that anything from cells two,

intelligence centers, to military command structures in and around the area of beirut. they've always had that so when you're talking about the potential to limit that and not go near the capital area or near the airport. i just it's fine that a little bit not it's a little bit of hyperbole from the standpoint of someone hoping for the best that this wouldn't happen. if it is. and i'll say one more thing. if it's just a couple of explosions as has been reported to explosions, that is a proportional response so far it could get bigger. but when you're talking about what happened the other day with the killing of civilians and especially children in that in that playground or that soccer field. you're talking about the potential for a much greater response by israel. again, this could just be step one, but this is a proportion no response not only against hezbollah, but against its a signal to the lebanese government of get control of

these terrorists that are living among you i want to read and paraphrase a portion of the statement that we just got from the idf taking responsibility, it says, quote, the idf carried out a targeted strike in beirut on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in the golan heights and the killing of numerous additional israeli civilians general, i think the concern has been going back to october 7 of a wider regional conflict. >> the united states, has repeatedly warned israel about any potential attacks going into beirut specifically. but we heard john kirby, the spokesperson for the nsc recently hey, that concerns about a wider conflict based on an israeli response or exaggerated how do you see where the conflict stands now versus what this could potentially lead up to? >> here we're there were a couple of actions, boris and you're exactly right. john kirby did say all those things and i think it was as a warning

to all that an israeli attack into southern lebanon, a ground attack as it were, or an extensive air campaign in lebanon would the significant and it would not be to israel's advantage because it would open up a second front while they're continuing with their actions in gaza. >> but truthfully, israel has to respond to that kind of attack from lebanon so again, a proportional response versus a ground incursion of southern lebanon are either a massive airstrike or an air campaign against various targets inside of lebanon. >> and again, it's early yet that could occur more strikes could be conducted. but this is a signal if the israeli government and the israeli defense forces say it was a kinetic strike against an identified hi target of an individual that conducted the command and control of that strike into into israel a few days ago, i think we're seeing

a good thing. it's something that i was talking to cnn on saturday saying it would be devastating for israel to open a second front with a major the ground incursion or a massive air campaign. and it appears at least so far that they've limited their strikes to specifically the target that was the commander of the strike that occurred the other day general, if you could stand by for us, we'll come back to you. >> i do want to bring in colorado congressman jason crow, who we had sticker crowned with us as we got word of this news, he's a former army ranger, results on the house foreign affairs and intel committees as we get word of this, a targeted strike, israel says israeli military says on this hezbollah commander they say was behind this attack that killed 12 children in northern israel. what are you what are your thoughts as you see this news? >> well, israel absolutely has a right and and i'd even say an obligation to respond to this attack that killed 12 children by hezbollah. but why

do we talk about issues to proportionality? is that it goes directly to the concern about escalation and amount to talk about why escalation in this case is a larger concern that maybe it has been in the past well, we have to do is we have to zoom out and talk about iran. iran works through these regional proxies, these proxy forces, hamas is one of them, has beloved, one of them the houthis they had, they have other militias and forces throughout the middle east but hezbollah is the largest in the most capable of all of those proxy forces right? so the concern about escalation is the most acute. mum are talking about hezbollah the thing that could lead to a larger regional war is if hezbollah opens up a northern front, they have far more rockets, far more personnel, far more sophisticated weaponry, and more capability across the board. and that could be very devastating. the north and hezbollah has vowed that depending on the israeli response, they wouldn't go to war with israel alone to your point, it would be these iranian backed groups.

>> congressman crow, great to get your perspective on this, we do have to take a quick break when we come back, we're going to keep following the breaking news out of the middle east explosions heard in beirut, the idf taking responsibility, saying that they have killed a hezbollah commanders. they would cnn we're back in just months maybe on the edge, moments that shaped our culture coming this fall on cnn trains tainted fence. >> what isn't on the schedule train that use the power of del ai and intel to the. hundreds of miles of tracks clearing the way so you arrive exactly where

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there are questions of course, about other casualties but they say that this strike we have some reports that this strike was conducted by drone that fired three missiles. >> yeah, we are joined again by cnn military analyst, retired general mark hertling. general hertling, your response to hearing that this was a drone strike? apparently, according to local reports carried out with three missiles. this is obviously city in beirut and we understand that the translation is suburbs. but nevertheless, this is a highly populated area. what do you make of this kind of attack being carried out there? >> yeah. i was in that area a long, long time ago. >> boris, about ten years ago. and it is highly populated. it is a typical middle, middle eastern suburb with a lot of concrete buildings narrow streets but when you're talking about the fact that it was potentially or at least the idf is saying it was a drone strike again, i go back to what i said earlier. that's a very good thing because it shows a

limited kinetic operation against a specific target as opposed to a massive campaign either by air or ground against multiple targets? it gets in beirut. the thing i've been very concerned about is an incursion into lebanon by the israeli defense forces. there already having some challenges in gaza and in the west bank and to have another front opening up with a massive amount of forces which we know israel has mobilized forces for the potential of going into lebanon. it's very concerning because it would certainly widen that war and bring other actors in so to me is as horrible as this may sound a limited strike by a drone is the best of possible outcomes right now to keep this from expanding into a wider conflict. >> and also the lebanese foreign minister general had been warning of a regional war if israel was to invade lebanon following that deadly attack at

that very high bar, that certainly this does not come close to meeting nor does it exceed what what does that tell you well, again, you know, the word proportional is important, briana, you know that you've seen this before the other thing that's been happening in beirut, as there have been a lot of foreign governments who are emptying out their embassies and asking their citizens to return and to leave the area because they're concerned about this so again, the fact if this stays limited and we're in the early hours of this, that that's an important dynamic. >> it won't create that regional conflict, as we said, if they in fact have and can identify a target that they killed that was responsible for that massive artillery strike that killed, so many in israel. then again, this shows the literally the constraint of the israeli defense forces in this area anyway, and doesn't widen

the conflict general please standby. we want to bring in david sanger, a new york times correspondent, who covers international affairs as well as the white house into the conversation, david, your response to this apparent strike by the idf in beirut? >> well, it sounds to me like general hertling's got this just right if this is the response. in other words, if this is not the leading edge of something else yeah, i think it's closer to what the united states was urging. a targeted attack, presumably on commanders who were responsible in israel's view for that horrific attack on the playground and soccer field that resulted in the deaths of those children. if it is the beginning of something larger than we're into something different we've just seen a tweet on x from the defense

minister of israel defense minister gallant saying that hezbollah had crossed a red line but he didn't give any suggestion that there is a larger response underway. so that dynamic we have seen is that neither hezbollah nor the israelis feel prepared this moment for the iranians for that matter, to get into a wider conflict is general hertling already noted israel's forces are stretched quite thin hezbollah doesn't want to miscalculate. here and result in a general war in lebanon. and the iranians have shown time and again that while they are willing to arm and strike out, they don't want to be in a general war either. plus there, there pulled back in april so if this is it and if we don't see very widespread civilian casualties, then i would say the administration got what it was

seeking from the israelis here. >> it's a bit of this deadly dance where both sides really seem to know the steps here. but i wonder david, as you were looking for clues here that israel, at some point may be at risk of a miscalculation what it is that you look for so they're both at risk of miscalculation here. >> so on the israeli side, if there were widespread civilian casualties, even if they said that they were going after a hezbollah commander unit, the same kind of issues we've seen in gaza, where they said they were we're going after hamas commanders, but we've repeatedly seen major major troubles not clear at all at this point how widespread the damage is. and that's just going to take time to figure out if hezbollah right reacts and attacks again in northern

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continuing to follow breaking news into cnn and we actually have our first images of the aftermath from what the israeli military is describing as a targeted strike in southern beirut. >> the idf says that the attack was on a hezbollah commander that they say is responsible for this weekend's deadly rocket attack in the israeli occupied golan heights that apparently killed 12 children lebanese state media saying that this strike was conducted by drone. >> that fired three missiles and cnn global affairs correspondent matthew chance is joining us now. matthew, your reaction to this news yeah. >> well, obviously it's a huge escalation in this ongoing crisis and this ongoing conflict that's been brewing between israel and lebanon, or at least the hezbollah factions and the other militant groups inside inside lebanon and obviously there have been multiple airstrikes that have

taken place from the israelis into that deep into lebanese territory. since the attack in nashville shams in the israeli-occupied golan heights, which killed 12 children and teenagers at the weekend. but this is an escalation of that. this is an attack on what looks like a residential suburb of southern beirut, the lebanese capital and that could provoke some sort of response. so i think that's the big concern at the moment what will be the response of the lebanese? authorities have hezbollah more importantly, to this attack. and obviously can see those images very dramatic. it's not clear what casualties there are at this point in that area of southern beirut. but look at that devastation. i mean, it's, it's pretty pretty intense and so i wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing some casualty figures coming out of there in the minutes and then in the hours ahead. now whether this represents a start of a broader

conflict that israel is undertaking in lebanon. i think that's not clear at that point. at this point certainly, there is strong pressure. inside israel from hardliners, for example, who want to go hard against hezbollah to remove it as a threat from israel's northern border. and there's also pressure for politically in israel. i mean, remember a lot of the israeli communities in northern israel i've been evacuated. people have left their homes because of the incessant threat of rocket attacks from southern lebanon. and so there's a big political pressure at some point on the radio authorities to go in and to push back potentially, that hezbollah from those border border areas, whether this is the sort of turning point or not, i think we don't know yet. i think there's been a lot of pressure as your previous guest was saying, on all sides to hold back. and of course, my sources inside israel as well inside the israeli military as saying the country is exhausted,

israel is exhausted. it's not ready necessarily at the moment for a full scale assault on lebanon, but events in the middle east do have a way of taking on a momentum of their own yeah, that's what i was going to ask or israelis writ large, ready for the commitment? >> that this kind of undertaking would be because it would be very large considering the capabilities of hezbollah. but as we're, i wonder what questions you have at this point, matthew, you mentioned, you see the destruction. we want to understand what the casualties are, but just take us through the questions you have. this is a very urban area. a lot of people in close proximity what, what don't we know at this point? >> well, i mean, we don't know what what civilian casualties may have been may have been inflicted as a result of this destruction because what the israeli military statement says, the idf statement says this was a targeted strike. i've got the statement in

front of me here. a strike on the commander of the hezbollah commander responsible for the murder of the children in mashhad al shams, that that rocket attack on the soccer pitch at the weekend in the golan. the golan heights? also the killing of israeli civilians as well. and so what the israeli military are saying is that this was a very targeted strike on specifically the hezbollah commander, who they hold responsible for the deaths of those 12 people from the druze community inside northern israel. at the weekend the indications from the israeli government and the authorities is that is that this is a specific, precise response to that. it doesn't necessarily indicate that this is the start of a broader campaign. paying to push hezbollah back from the border of northern israel in southern, in southern lebanon, it may become that but at the moment that's not what the israelis seem to be indicating.

>> nothing, please standby. we want to go to retired general mark hertling for his response his view of these images, the first that we're getting of this idf attack in beirut, what stands out to you about this, this early video of the strike? >> yeah, a couple of things. first of all, you can tell that this was not and i know you're your listeners and your viewers are going to think, i'm crazy for saying this, but this was not a large strike. this was this was a small weapon system launched from a drone from what israel says this, is the kind of destruction you get from those kind of kinetic operations which are targeted. >> it looks like there's a lot of rubble around. >> people are walking through the area. i haven't seen what was hit yet, whether it was a car or a building, windows are blown out glasses all over the place. but this is probably a relatively small weapon that hit in this area, one of three is reported by the israelis. this isn't a 500 pound bomb

that was dropped or a to a 2000 pound bomb was dropped. >> however in the southern part of the capital of lebanon, this is an important part in what matthew was just talking about. >> i think it's important to note that most of the israeli strikes have been going on in southern lebanon south of the litani river, which is about 35 miles north of the israeli border. it's the border area between israel and lebanon beirut is about 100 miles from the israeli border, and it is the capital of lebanon lebanon is not hezbollah hezbollah is a terrorist group that works inside of lebanon and have a strike against the capital is not what israeli, what the israelis want to do, but it's sending a signal what has been happening since october 7, as as rockets have come out of lebanon launched by hezbollah hezbollah, the terrorist group.

they had mostly been coming from southern lebanon and israel has responded in kind to those attack when they hear or when they get the feedback and the intelligence to go against the target. going this for now this far north and hitting outside the capitol is a different ballgame altogether. and that's what i think a lot of people have been concerned about. matthew is exactly right grounded. just said it to the last two times that israel went into lebanon, it was a long war. years. in fact, the 1982 war, operation peace for galilee was took about 20 years to resolve with israel forces still in that area because of missiles coming out of missiles and artillery coming out of southern lebanon so as we explain this conflict a little bit you have a terrorist organization, hezbollah, working inside of a country where the government is very different and really not

supportive of that hezbollah terrorist group. but they can't do a whole lot about them because it is operating underground. so the strikes in southern lebanon the first nine months of this campaign are very different than the strike that just took place inside of beirut very interesting points general, if you could stand by for us in to the general's point, david saying her you know, beirut has largely been spared. >> there was of course the attack in april full on the iranian consular access that targeted revolutionary guard from iran and the quds force commanders but this isn't something even if this is considered a small strike, we don't see the pancaking of buildings. this is something that is really going to be seen by people in beirut as something very significant it definitely will. >> and as general hertling

suggested, attacking another country's capital is no small thing. it's also been done before and there's usually been a pretty big reaction, as you mentioned, about targeting the iranian commanders earlier this year. >> but in this case the neighborhood where they have struck appears to be the area near where the shura council meets switches that the sort of governing council? >> hezbollah. the israelis have said they had a specific commander in mind. >> i don't think they've named that commander. >> and we don't know whether that commander was killed, injured, or even there during the time of the strike but the pattern of destruction here seems to radiate the thought that this was a targeted strike, not a general one you know, it's interesting, you wonder whether the israelis are beginning to take on board the

american criticisms, which were in response to some of the strikes against hamas down in gaza, about using large bombs in crowded neighborhoods. that doesn't mean that their warrants civilian casualties here, i can't imagine that they're warrant but it was a much more targeted weapon. and we heard from the state department just today that their biggest hope here is to avoid escalation. so all a question now of how many were killed and how hamas has built a response? >> no questions obviously is still too early to answer david sanger, please stay with us. we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back with the latest news out of the middle east, the idf carrying out a targeted strike in beirut assignments are going off and playing the tornado here i'm thinking i'm going to die. and i thought that was it violent earth with liev schreiber now

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6180800 or visit coventry direct.com newsnight with abby phillip tonight at ten eastern on cnn we continue to follow breaking news coming to us out of the middle east. israel says, and these are some live pictures out of beirut. israel says it has launched a strike there in beirut, the capital of lebanon targeting a hezbollah commander that it blames for a deadly attack on the israeli occupied golan heights that killed 12 children. >> yeah, lebanese state media says the strike was conducted by drone, a drone that fired three missiles. again, these are live images coming in. a lot of questions still to be answered, including the number of casualties killed in the incident. want to take you now live to tel aviv because cnn's jeremy diamond has been monitoring this situation. jeremy, what are you hearing from israeli officials? >> well, the israeli military was very quick to confirm that it had carried out this strike

on the southern suburb of beirut of very significant strike in part because of the location, but also because of the target. these really military says that it targeted a senior commander who was responsible. they say for that rocket attack on the syrian druze community of much they'll shams and the israeli israeli-controlled golan heights at deadly strike over the weekend, killing 12 children, wounding several dozen others. and absolutely shaking that community. but also raising fears in the region of a potential escalation of this long simmering conflict between israel and hezbollah whether or not this strike, given the nature of the deaths, given the fact that these were civilians, that given the fact that these were children, that this could potentially tilt the region into all our war. and we have been hearing from israeli officials in the last several days. they have been vowing a very severe response, vowing to take out a very heavy blow on hezbollah. and now we know the nature of that strike as we learn that it has taken place

in the southern suburb of the lebanese capital, a hezbollah stronghold at that now, interestingly, the israeli military is also saying that they have made no changes to what they call the home front command defensive guidelines. these are the types of guidelines that are issued to civilians to prepare them for the possibility of a military escalation. repair them to be able to get to a bomb shelter more quickly to not hold large gatherings. so no changes there, which indicates that at least for the moment, the israeli military, these silly governments don't seem to think that this will at least immediately trigger that all out war immediately trigger a significant escalation from hezbollah, but make no mistake that possibility is certainly in the air tonight, as we now wait to see how hezbollah will respond to this latest strike, as we wait to see the identity of this senior hezbollah commander who was taken and also of how many other casualties may have resulted from this israeli strike. these

really defense minister, yoav galant's making clear tonight that this strike was taken out because hezbollah in his words, crossed the red line. and so that is certainly the sentiment from these really government tonight it is why they carried out this strike. and now the region is going to wait to see how hezbollah will respond and whether or not we will see yet another escalation in this conflict all right, we'll be watching to jeremy. >> thank you. so much. we are going to be monitoring white house reaction to this and we do have some news coming from the lebanese state news agency nna saying that at least one has one person has died in this strike by israel in beirut rude at least one woman has died and several other people have been injured including serious injuries in the idf strike in the suburbs of beirut were looking to get more information shanen obviously as we look at these live pictures coming in from lebanon we'll be right

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