identification zone. they did stay in international airspace and unlike monday s encounter, no u.s. aircraft were launched to meet them. also yesterday reports that exxonmobil applied to the treasury department for a waiver from u.s. sanctions on russia that would allow the company to resume an oil venture begun by former ceo and now secretary of state rex tillerson in 2012. senator john mccain responded on twitter by asking are they crazy? so i asked brian sullivan, are they crazy? are you crazy? we know that. that may be true. but crazy is beautiful, mike, as you well know. is exxon crazy? i don t know. listen, this could be a multi i don t even want to say multi billion dollar deal. russia had called this a $500 billion bill potentially with exxon. what we re talking about is drilling in the arctic. so what exxon wants to do is form a joint venture with russian companies, primarily the russian oil and gas company, to drill in the arctic.
i could be an opinion maker on tv but i couldn t be someone who is seen as an objective, you know nonpart shl journalist and difficult because he spent so many years inside the clinton operation and also now appears to be within the consortium that s clinton, inc. well said. candy crowly hurt in 2012. senator, good to see you. thank you. you were ahead of the curve on this. thank you. coming up more on the steph nop louse scandal. should republican candidates do any interviews with abc news and the top anchor? checking in with the rnc chairman here with reaction along with utah senator and then the mainstream media is baetding up jeb bush over his iraq war comments but yet hillary clinton getting a free pass as usual even thoughh she s the one that voted for the war. dan savage is apparently getting a sitcom on abc. we ll show you examples of why the network may want to
being held by a bunch of nice guys here. he had been in captivity for five years. we had reason to believe that it was necessary to move quickly and not to notify congress 30 days in advance and forego the opportunity of recovering him. and i would note, anderson, that the conversations about the exchange of prisoners here had been engaged in for quite some time including with members of congress during the previous episode when there was the potential for direct discussions with the taliban and recovery of sergeant bergdahl through that in 2011 and 2012. senator mccain himself said he would support such a deal, and that was not that many months ago. you have to note that the details of it, but he would support the deal. but the details are you had the secretary of defense in consultation with the entire
a state that president obama lost by 23 points in 2012. senator mcconnell faces a tough primary challenge, and even a tougher democrat in the fall. no wonder some on the right don t seem too enthusiastic about supporting his reelection. the hardest question that i have for you, it is this. why are you endorsing mitch mcconnell? i m here in texas to endorse don huffines. we have our signals crossed here. i m going back to kentucky because he asked me. he asked me when there was nobody else in the race, and i said yes. ouch. rand paul, the other senator from kentucky only supported mitch mcconnell because no one else was running at the time? well, just moments ago paul released a statement calling mcconnell, quote, an important ally and a conservative voice.
affordable health care we can provide right now. we have something with a big tax and the american people who rejected that in 2010 will have a chance to break the tie in 2012. senator dan coats, republican from indiana, thank you h i want to bring in david gregory from nbc s meet the press. let s talk about the real-life political implication. there was a lot of talk at the beginning of the week, almost forgot is there is a huge decision on immigration. some people felt that would be even more consequential in terms of how people go to the voting booth but i m wondering what you re hearing from the white house and what this consensus is, if there is one, about what this will mean for november. well, let me first talk about i think some of the intrigue on the supreme court and the politics there i talked to the white house this morning as they are digesting this decision. they are arguing that this is in some ways vindication for their for the solicitor general of the united st