WHAT Are We Doing in JORDAN? | Johnson Says Senate Border Bill is D.O.A. | 1/29/24
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan by suspected Iran-backed groups. Trump's defamation case will likely be appealed. Mike Johnson says the atrocious Senate "compromise" on border security is dead on arrival in the House. Biden takes revenge on Texas. Cruz goes ape. And Begg disappoints.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 29th, 2024. What the heck are we doing in the country of Jordan? What the heck |
| 0:05.0 | are we doing on our southern border? And one swimsuit company doesn't know what the heck a woman is. |
| 0:10.4 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:30.1 | Three U.S. troops were killed, and dozens more were injured following a drone attack at a base in northeast Jordan near the Syria border. |
| 0:32.6 | That's according to United States Central Command. |
| 0:38.2 | These are the first U.S. fatalities in months of strikes by Iranian-backed militant groups since the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7th. The troops have not been identified |
| 0:43.3 | pending notification of next-of-kin. In a statement, President Joe Biden said the troops were killed |
| 0:48.5 | by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq, adding that they're still gathering the facts of the |
| 0:55.7 | matter on the attack. The Islamic resistance in Iraq released a statement Sunday, taking credit for the |
| 1:01.3 | four drone attacks on al-Shadada base in Syria and the Al-Rukbin and Al-Tanf bases at the Syria-Jordan |
| 1:09.0 | border. The fourth attack was on the Zevulan Naval's facility in Israel. |
| 1:13.3 | It's not clear if the Islamic resistance in Iraq is responsible for the deaths of the three |
| 1:18.1 | U.S. troops. U.S. lawmakers quickly responded with one Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina |
| 1:24.1 | overtly calling for an attack on Iran. The obvious question here is, why in the world |
| 1:30.3 | do we have U.S. troops in Jordan? What are they doing there and what was their mission? |
| 1:35.1 | And how did Iran know? That's who's behind all this. And how was a proxy group able to get |
| 1:40.3 | its hands on kamikaze drones? Obviously, Jordan is an ally of the United States, |
| 1:46.2 | and attacking our troops in Allied territory is a major escalation. What a mess. |
| 1:52.5 | Back to the U.S. political world, big news since we last talked, a New York jury on Friday, |
| 1:57.0 | ordered former President Donald Trump to pay a total of $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll for |
| 2:03.7 | apparently ruining her credibility as an advice columnist when he called her a liar after she accused |
| 2:09.5 | him of sexual assault. The jury awarded Carol $65 million in punitive damages, $11 million |
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