In iraq. Why is the pentagon and Senior Military Leadership reluctant to say its more than 3800 . Were not reluctant. What we track is the number in our force management level. Thats 3800. This is nothing thats inconsistent with whats been going on the last 15 years. People that are in direct support of the embassy, those have knot nnot been counted. Its a consistent way of counting thats been going on for 15 years. At any given time we have 3800 directly in support of the mission. When units rotate, we dont double count them. If theres a unit of 200 replaced by a unit of 200, and theyre being replaced at the same time, we dont count it as 400. The accounting of our people has been consistent. Were not denying that theres more people than 3800. You get the numbers from us. But in terms of what we count in the mission in thats in accordance with the direction, the 3800 is in the mission. I didnt say 5,000 was accurate. I said 3800. And theres some number above that as a result of people
Meetings scheduled. The tension between the two Top Republicans has been toned down in recent days, somewhat. In a story published today, trump was defied an interview about the leverage he has walking into the meeting that his eight million twitter followers mattered more than ryans blessing. Ryan said he wanted to find Common Ground with the partys nominee. We go into the fall at half strength. This election is too important to go into an election at half strength. That means we need a real unification of our party, after a tough primary, thats going to take effort. Were committed to putting that effort in. I want to be part of that unifying process so were at full strength this fall to win the election. Theres plenty of room for different policy disputes in this party. We come from different wings of the party. The goal here is to unify the various wings of the party around common principles to go forward to unify. All right. No matter how well the meetings go tomorrow, trump and ry
Good morning, its thursday july 12th. We are going to start with President Trump in brussels, for day two of the nato summit. It has been a highly contentious affair for President Trump to say the least, as he continues to attack allies with a protection racket, to describe the involvement in the alliance. He said president s have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get germany and other rich nato nations to pay more toward their protection from russia. They pay only a fraction of their cost. The u. S. Pays 10s of billions of dollars to much to subsidize europe and loses big on trade. And in a followup, tweeting that germany wants protection from rush a from russia, attendees repeated that nato nations need to pay more for defense and germany was too dependent on russia. During that session, trump told allies they must increases the amount of gdp toward defense to 4 . That doubles the 2 target that is set for 2024. And not 2025, as the president tweeted. And the president is now de
Morning i am a faithful trump supporter. Whats the attraction to trump . Backbone. Backbone . Thats right. Also, two high profile suicides this week designer kate spade and cnns own Anthony Bourdain, sadly they echo new cdc findings that suicide in the u. S. Is up 25 in the past two decades. Is it any coincidence that the most popular course ever at Yale University psychology and the good life aims to teach students how to be happy. And miss America Pageant ending its evening gown and swim suit competition, but will anyone watch without the bikinis. Ill ask miss america who won the democratic nomination to an alabama congressional race. But first, the suicides of 55yearold kate spade and 61yearold Anthony Bourdain jarred many of us this week. Here is the thing, just one of the things that makes this so hard and confusing, everybody wanted to be Anthony Bourdain. I did. We all did. The passing of two who seemingly had it all just confirms that old island saying that you dont know if the
In a fist fight. Laura you are going to see donnie and marie . Sean i love the conerts and i love in and out bigger. Its my favorite. Laura country . Sean all country. Good grief. Laura i am Laura Ingraham on a busy night in washington. We have an exclusive big interview tonight. Secretary of state mike pompeo sat down for a rare interview to discuss whether john kerry, obamas former secretary of state broke u. S. Law by meddling in Foreign Policy. Plus his first reaction to an undercover video where a state Department Employee suggests there is a resistance inside the administration. Oh, goodie. And raymond is here with a seen and unseen for the ages. Here it goes. What is roseannes death and sexuality of muppets and jack black have in common . And nancy pelosi a last ditch effort to stall the president s order about the russian investigation. We begin tonight with the latest on the fast developing Brett Kavanaugh fight. The calls began early this morning. The message for the kavanaug