In 2013, even President Trump warned against military intervention four years ago, tweeting to our foolish leader, do not attack syria. If you do, many bad things will happen and from that the u. S. Gets nothing. Now we are torn between an emotional reaction and a rational response. What do we get out of the falsely simple and pat military response senator learned i graham is clamoring for. Ikea safe spaces so refugees can return home. More dead babies and a hot war with russia. Those are bad endings to an ongoing nightmare. They are blaming the attacks on an insurgent store house. If really thought the rebels were housing nerve agents in close proximity to an ally suburban hub, they would be screaming for backup. Arming rebels we dont know, creating nofly zones we wont enforce and escalating a conflict with a Nuclear Power is like diving head first. If the unstable canadians started gags their acidwashed citizens, would we expect a military response from turkey . Im sure they would lo
Miraculous survival story shot on camera while running to the rescue. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, the white house struggling to find a singular message about its syria policy following thursdays Cruise Missile attack tonight finds itself suddenly engaged in damage control after Spokesman Sean Spicer tried to draw a moral comparison between Bashar Al Assad and adolf hitler saying hitler didnt even sink to using chemical weapons. The historical fact he gassed jews and others walk lost on many who watched spicer as he spoke at the press briefing. His words and attempts to clarification touching off an emotional response. A short time ago comes an apology. White house correspondent Kristen Welker has details. Reporter tonight, a messaging misstep rocking the white house after sean spicer compared Bashar Al Assad to hitler. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. You ha
If they can do something, theyll do it, whatever it is. And if you havent been to a prison, i encourage you to go and visit it and see what its like. Justice kennedy served on the california prison commission, he cares deeply about this set of issues. I think this one is you know, i feel comfortable arguing almost anything but this one i would not want to argue on behalf of arkansas. But you would encourage people to visit the easy way, not the hard way, right . Absolutely. Want to be clear. With an open door. Did you want i think its interesting when we think about a couple of cases that we spoke about, gilbert and holt, were looking at the degree of discretion that the court is either to afford to prison officials or to local officials about the signage that will go up in a town or the safety concerns, it will be interesting to see if theres any inconsistency in how much deference is given to any state official depending on the context and of course prisons do present something of a
Yes. Im ariane with abc news. Stand. We want to make sure who were talking here. Can we get a bright light on you, please. I had a question. I happened to be looking at facebook and i think but i have no idea, i looked up and saw that there was alonis with the same name and he is posting on facebook. Talk big picture. Either way the court rules, what is the impact on the average person who posts on facebook . What sort of the big picture impact. Youre talking about current posts. I thought i did. I cant say for sure but i thought it was interesting. Whats the Bigger Picture . Were they over the top . Well, so, you know, the law professor in me resists the idea about what this case is about and what we should think its about is the law of facebook. Theres kind of risk of creating what we like to call the law of the horse. The law of an inanimate object or particular medium and Something Like that. First amendment area by and large the Supreme Court has resisted doing that. They want the
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