[ theme music ] stephanie hello. Im late. Hello current tv land. Good morning, Jacki Schechner. Good morning. Stephanie karl frisch right out of the box, representativetive peter welch of the great state of vermont is rand paul still talking or is he done . No, he is done. Stephanie that would have beening kind of funny if the president sent him a drone to get him to stop. Im not sure were on the same page with this one. Stephanie yeah, i know. I have concerns. And i liked that he did a filibuster. Yeah. And it was bipartisan. Stephanie i agree with you on that. All right. Here she is in the current news center. Jacki schechner. Good morning, everybody, president obama continues his divide and compromise strategy today. He is invited paul ryan to the white house for lunch, also invited is chris van holland, who is the Ranking Member of the committee. Todays meals comes on the hills of the dinner the president hosted last night. The post meal feedback the press was all positive. The goa
Group, the sunni militia effect that theyre bombing in iraq, and they may want to bomb in syria as well. When the white house talks about that group, they call them isil. Lets be clear about isil. Isil speaks for no religion, they have no ideology of any value to human beings. We will be relentless against isil. Isil a lot of terms about isils vision. Isil. When the administration and the pentagon talk about who theyre bombing in iraq right now, and who they may want to bomb inside syria as well, they call the group isil. Everybody else calls the group isis. Why are there these two different names. The group in question speaks arabic, and what they would prefer to be called in english, the Islamic State, so that would be i. S. Frankly i think nobody cares what they would prefer to be called. There is this difference in how they are described in terms of english language acronyms. When they are called isis, that is sometimes translated as an acronym for the Islamic State in iraq and syr
Extremists. Al shabaab, known for last falls attack on a nairobi Shopping Mall that left more than 60 dead. Jim miklaszewski joins me now. What do we know about this usair strike and who specifically the u. S. Was targeting . Luke, this was a u. S. Military air strike. Drones, at least one, launched a couple of hellfire missiles at what is being described as a small convoy of al shabaab leadership and the missiles destroyed at least two of those vehicles. The specific target is the top leader of al shabaab who is, as you said a moment ago, responsible for the terrorist attack against a mall in nairobi, kenya, a couple of years ago that killed 67 people. Now, i can tell you, theres a high level of confidence among u. S. Military leadership that gadan was killed in this strike. Theres also a concern because the intelligence agencies are not picking up the usual level of chatter about one of the al qaedali qaedalinked leaders. Usually they pop up immediately declaring him a martyr in orde
In syria, were not going to war, have a nice weekend. It was a surprise announcement from the president in the sense nobody knew he was going to make an announcement. When everybody realized what he wasnt going to announce, it was kind of a big deal. And an unexpected one. Well have more on that in a moment. And the Bob Mcdonnell jury is not done yet, but day are done hearing testimony from witnesses. The Bob Mcdonnell jury is now ready to hear closing arguments in that federal corruption trial in richmond, virginia. That means we are on verdict watch very shortly in the Bob Mcdonnell trial. Well have more on that ahead. Also, theres some big news to report tonight on a story that we first brought you here last night. It involves a bribery scandal and a guilty plea and the man who would like to be the next Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. Federal prosecutors are now reportedly moving on to other new targets in toptier republican politics after securing a key guilty
That theyre bombing in iraq, and they may want to bomb in syria as well. When the white house talks about that group, they call them isil. Lets be clear about isil. Isil speaks for no religion, they have no ideology of any value to human beings. We will be relentless against isil. Isil a lot of terms about isils vision. Isil. When the administration and the pentagon talk about who theyre bombing in iraq right now, and who they may want to bomb inside syria as well, they call the group isil. Everybody else calls the group isis. Why are there these two different names. The group in question speaks arabic, and what they would prefer to be called in english, the Islamic State, so that would be i. S. Frankly i think nobody cares what they would prefer to be called. There is this difference in how they are described in terms of english language acronyms. When they are called isis, that is sometimes translated as an acronym for the Islamic State in iraq and syria. Thats not where it came from