Putin, who has gleefully jumped into the international spotlight with an oped published last night by the New York Times. Certainly the most discussed oped i have ever seen. A lecture to the American People, peppered with an artful rewriting of history. Putin writes, from the outset, russian has advocated peaceful dialogue, enabling syrians to develop a compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the syrian government, but International Law. The law is still the law and we must follow it whether we like it or not. Putin then claims without any supporting evidence and in direct opposition to the United Nations, the u. S. Intelligence and Human Rights Watch, to name a few, that it was rebels who used chemical weapons last month, writing, no one doubts that poison gas was in used in syria, but there is every reason to believe that it was not used by the syrian army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patron. And he ends with a rebut
A lecture to the American People, peppered with an artful rewriting of history. Putin writes, from the outset, russian has advocated peaceful dialogue, enabling syrians to develop a compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the syrian government, but International Law. The law is still the law and we must follow it whether we like it or not. Putin then claims without any supporting evidence and in direct opposition to the United Nations, the u. S. Intelligence and Human Rights Watch, to name a few, that it was rebels who used chemical weapons last month, writing, no one doubts that poison gas was in used in syria, but there is every reason to believe that it was not used by the syrian army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patron. And he ends with a rebuttal to the president s assertion the other night that america is exceptional. He says, i would rather disagree with a case he made on american exceptionalism, stating that th
Get here and because it does it represent significant progress. On monday after House Democrats unveiled a sweepling bill to reformed policing that included ban onth chokeholds, among othe items, today the Top Republican in the house, Kevin Mccarthy says that he agrees with that ban and that his party conceptually agrees with much of what the House Democrats proposed. Do you support banning choke holds . Yes, especially in the concept if you watch within a pe bill coming forward. If the idea of someone that would have a chokehold when somebody is handcuffed and others, there should be severe consequences. There should be severe consequences. Thats been true for a long time. That is not something republicans were saying before the protests sparked by the killing of george floyd. Public opinion has dramatically pushed in the direction of t anl Police Reform, at the minimum today we learned rand paul who has spoke out against no knock warrants before is filing legislation to ban them io n
Sure. But what i didnt hear is how theyre going to pay for it. Did you . No, other than this will create such Economic Growth in the country that it will effectively pay for itself. Thats the argument. Is an argument right. It will create such a boom in this country that it will create Economic Growth and reduce the deficit that way. This is something that republicans are concerned about because they believe this could blow a hole in the deficit. We also didnt hear a tremendous amount of detail. It seems to me, quite honestly, that this was something they wanted to get on the record before you reach that milestone of 100 days, that they wanted to say that they had proposed the biggest tax cut in American History and that we are working out the details with congress and some of what we heard on the campaign trail, for example, you know, repealing the estate tax, lowering individual rates which they apparently intend to do, doubling the standardized deduction, for example, and i think th
Control the president , and he said the president s tweets do not make his job more difficult. I would just offer to you always i read it all of the time, i read it pretty consistently, im not quitting today. I dont believe, and i just talked to the president , i dont think im being fired today, and im not so frustrated in this job that im thinking of leaving. I would tell you this is the hardest job i ever had. This is, in my view, the most important job i ever had. I would offer that it is not the best job i ever had. The best job i ever had as i said many times is when i was an enlisted marine sergeant and infantry man. That was the best job i ever had. Unless things change, im not quitting, im not getting fired, and i dont think theyll fire anyone tomorrow. Received by some laughter in the room. Just before he left the press briefing room, he also made notes on north korea saying americans should be concerned about the threat of nuclear war, and that the country, you know, he is ho