Officials: Iran seizes two oil tankers in what the U.S. military believes was a preplanned operation; 195 Million across U.S. face deadly heat wave
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 866 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now breaking news, second ship seized after its revolutionary guard seized a |
| 0:06.4 | British flag tanker in the Strait of Formuz. Iran sends tension soaring by |
| 0:10.8 | grabbing a second ship and with the US military |
| 0:13.2 | believes was a pre-planned operation. CNN has learned that armed US aircraft |
| 0:17.8 | are keeping watch over an American ship in the region. Can't stop, won't |
| 0:22.2 | stop President Trump renewing his attacks on a minority |
| 0:25.3 | congresswoman, he's now praising his campaign crowd which chanted send her back, saying that |
| 0:31.0 | rally was attended by incredible patriots. |
| 0:34.0 | Preparing for Mueller with mock hearings and strategy sessions |
| 0:38.0 | lawmakers are scrambling to prepare for next week's testimony by former Special |
| 0:42.4 | Council Robert Mueller. |
| 0:44.0 | We have new information on Democrats plans to focus on areas of potential obstruction by the president. |
| 0:50.0 | And Putin's Arctic policy, Russia's Vladimir Putin flexing his muscles |
| 0:55.0 | with a new show of military might, |
| 0:57.1 | this time in the Arctic. |
| 0:58.9 | Does a new missile test signal a new threat to American aircraft. |
| 1:03.0 | Wolflitzer is off. I'm Brianna Keeler. You're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:15.0 | We have breaking news Iran, |
| 1:19.2 | dramatically raising tensions |
| 1:21.0 | and raising the stakes in the Gulf region by seizing two oil tankers. |
| 1:25.0 | Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it's captured a British flag ship in the Strait of Hormuz, |
| 1:30.1 | and a U.S. official says a Liberian flag vessel has also been grabbed. |
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