Specialite alerted their superiors as early as january to a suspected plot to pay bounties to the tally ban to kill troops in afghanistan. This according to officials in the matterment they believe one troop death was a result of the boupties. They go on this say the crucial information that led the spies and commandos to focus on the bounties included the recovery of a large amount of American Cash from a raid on a tell ban outpost that tromented suspicions. Interrogations have captured militants. Played an essential role in making the Intelligence Community confident that the russians offered and paid bounties in 2019. Another official has said. Thats in the New York Times this morning. President trump you have probably heard is denying this bounty report. Heres the headline in usa today. Nobodys been tougher on russia than the trump administration, said the president. He said that in this piece that facing strong criticism from democrats, trump said on twitter that neither he nor th
Hour. Sec. Pompeo thank you. Well, good morning, everyone. So ive got a prepared speech and ive got some thoughts and ill mix them in this morning. I want to thank kay and the entire Leadership Team from heritage having me here this morning. We were talking back stage about the gala tonight and i reminded them that id been to the gala a number of times when i was a member of congress. This was an Important Institution in washington d. C. , on behalf of america and i value it and this administration values it and all the leaders across the United States government values it as well. Its great to be here, everybody remembers the bob dylan song, shelter from the storm, and i know there are friends here, too, people ive known a long time who are here. I want to thank you for all supporting this institution. Heritage has schooled many generations of free market believers and i was on a think tank back in kansas, the kansas Public Policy institute. We would read heritage reports all the time
Its an incredibly busy area i mean. Dubai all the middle eastern carriers theres a lot of traffic that goes through that area and i think that thats a problem the short term problem is everybodys going to have to do some rerouting or recruiting. So the flights may take a little bit longer they may have to put on some more fuel that may increase costs a little bit for the airlines but i think the f. A. A. And the airlines are acting out of an over abundance of caution which is a good thing because they dont want to have another Malaysian Airlines that was shot down over the ukraine in 2014 and going back even further in history they dont have another iran air flight 655 that was shot down by the u. S. Navy in july 1908 im actually looking at a British Airways flight that left from new delhi and normally it would have a pretty straight shot over the gulf to. England and now its taken a hard right turn and it is flying over the middle of iran right now so its not flying anywhere near the
It is good to be with you, everyone. I am ayman mohyeldin. For nearly a year now, we have been healing all about the effort that the u. S. Has been putting into restoring the 2015 iran nuclear deal. We have been told how important it is that time is of the essence that the iranians are being stubborn, but that we are being closer to restoring the agreement, President Trump killed back in 2018. In fact, just last month, thats a little bit of the headlines were saying. But now, that whole narrative is changing. The u. S. Iran and five other countries that are party to this deal are in the middle of the eighth round of talks in vienna. According to reporting from the wall street journal, u. S. Officials are now saying that Irans Nuclear capabilities are to advanced to even restore a key goal in the original deal. The socalled Breakout Period that iran would need to build a Nuclear Weapon has now decreased significantly, less than the 12 months that underpinned the initial pact. In fact, i
It is good to be with you, everyone. I am ayman mohyeldin. For nearly a year now, we have been healing all about the effort that the u. S. Has been putting into restoring the 2015 iran nuclear deal. We have been told how important it is that time is of the essence that the iranians are being stubborn, but that we are being closer to restoring the agreement, President Trump killed back in 2018. In fact, just last month, thats a little bit of the headlines were saying. But now, that whole narrative is changing. The u. S. Iran and five other countries that are party to this deal are in the middle of the eighth round of talks in vienna. According to reporting from the wall street journal, u. S. Officials are now saying that Irans Nuclear capabilities are to advanced to even restore a key goal in the original deal. The socalled Breakout Period that iran would need to build a Nuclear Weapon has now decreased significantly, less than the 12 months that underpinned the initial pact. In fact, i