with brain cancer. lab results to remove a blood clot last week confirmed the presence of a brain tumor. brain scans following surgery to remove a blood clot show the tissue has been removed. dr. sanjay gupta spoke exclusively with senator mccain s doctors. with john mccain s permiss n permission, i was able to talk to his doctors at the mayo clinic and got a better idea of what s transpired with his care. he had an operation this past friday to remove a blood collection within his brain just above his left eye. we now know that that it blood collection was caused by a type of brain tumor. this is a primary brain tumor that s quite adegrees i-and will acquire further treatment. the senator had been feeling fatigued for the last several months and complained about an intermittent bout of double
there s toughly 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan right now, down from 100,000 in 2010. is that enough to maintain control there? it doesn t seem to be at this point. there s british troops that have been sent in today where the taliban are on the verge of taking a strategic town. this is bad news. if you want to argue that this is potentially good news coming out of iraq, things are not going well in afghanistan. the attack that killed the six american soldier was the biggest casualties all year. there s been high profile attacks in kabul itself. the taliban took earlier this year a major province in the north. things are not going well. the u.s. has to be much more adegrees. ive with air power in afghanistan. you may see more american special forces in afghanistan as you have seen happen in iraq. michael, there seems to be this perception while isis has been making gains that the taliban has been withering.
cruz nationally is polling in the second position for the first time. whenever they fall, he says something to get himself back on tv. he went six days without dominating the air waves. also the movie we have seen before is that when all of the establishment press beats up on trump as well as the political establishment or what remains of it, this helps with the base, who e sees him as standing up this isn t going to do anything to the numbers with his core supporters. the press is in a box here. on the one hand, it s our responsibility to cover what he says, especially something like this adegrees. ively. at the same time, not let him hijack the campaign. eight hours on cnn today. you tell me whether that is accidental. whether there s some reason they would prefer to be talking about what donald trump said and whether he represents republicans versus the terror attack that the president has basically said he s going to do nothing about to change our strategy in fighting thi
trenches as a prosecutor, adegrees. ively fighting terrorism, financial fraud, cyber crime all while defending civil rights. that was november 8th, 2014 133 days ago. since then a lot has happened. the st. louis county grand jury chose not to indict officer wilson and outraged the people of ferguson. a grand jury decided not to indict the police officers involved in the death of eric garner. protesters shut down the streets of new york city. across the kouncountry, a movement of those with hands up explaining they could not breathe, dying in and declaring black lives matter demanded our attention and shaped our discourse. two officers were murdered in brooklyn and the police turned their back on the mayor. loretta lynch, she waited to be confirmed. we celebrated thanksgiving christmas, we even rang in the new year. the congress started and brought
she faced a panel of 14 senators. 14 male senators. some of them were sympathetic to her claims. but others weren t. was there my substance in the flat statement that, quote, miss hill was disappointeded and frustrated that mr. thomas did not show any sexual interest in her? no, there is not. arlen specter, one of the republican members of the committee, was the most adegrees enough going after hill. but heave not alone. when thomas then appeared to rebut hill s claims, the same senators who had been so skeptical of her, so hostile towards her, rolled over for him. here was a woman making serious accusations of sexual harassment and being judged by a panel full of men. there was not a single female voice on that judiciary committee. outside of the committee, outside of the senate, outside of capitol hill, there was