Regarding us arms sales. To start, we should recognize and acknowledge that the law contemplates and indeed requires a partnership between the executive branch and legislative branch regarding arms sales. This committee plays an Important Role to conduct rigorous oversight of the issue. At the same time the law does grant the President Authority to conduct sales without congressional approval in times of emergency. And focusing on that issue. This hearing will focus on these roles and authorities. We must consider the context for this latest declaration, the latest in attack on iran and its proxies and partners capabilities to defend against those threats. The arms export control act, the authority to declare an emergency concerning specific arms sales and avoid the standard process of congressional notification. Such president ial authority dates back 40 years to Lessons Learned from the october 1973 war in the middle east. The president s of both parties used emergency authorities on
Decision, we are told, to draw down troops in afghanistan leaving Afghan Forces that the u. S. Had promised to support to the hands of the taliban and isis in afghanistan had to be two issues that were troubling jim mast t jim mattis significantly. His Code Of Ethics is you do not walk away from your friends on the battlefield. Mattis tonight simply may have run out of runway room ahead of him that he felt he could use in dealing with the president. He had been sidelined. He had been his advice on these matters had been rejected clearly. And mattis had had a strategy that simply wasnt working. He was trying to keep a low Public Profile and never say anything that would be contradictory to the president of the United States. He knew that this would infuriate trump. He knows that President Trump doesnt like to see other people
out there in public speaking. That it is all reserved for the president. So mattis over the last two years had had a strategy. You dont see him on camera holding p
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Just hours before President Trump held a Campaign Rally in wisconsin, several people he regularly attacks became the targets of very real and dangerous threats. Right now, a search is under way for a suspect or suspects who sent explosive devices to two former president s. A former secretary of state, are former attorney general and a current member of congress, a liberal activist george soros and right here the new york offices of cnn. The president took to the stage just a short time ago and addressed the multiple threats. Well, sort of. The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories. Have to do it. Have to do it. Theyve got to stop. Bring people together. Oh, my gosh. The media has a responsibility to bring people together . The media is supposed to report on you. Thats not our responsibility. Thats yours. The most head turning moment came when
Senator rand paul Maryland Democratic senator ben carbon. Before all of that, blake burman of the white house on these fastchanging developments. Hey, blake. Hi there, neil, thats exactly right. The secretary of state mike pompeo will be in turkey tomorrow. Today he was in riyadh, saudi arabia meeting with the Saudi Arabian king bin salman. President trump tweeted out yet again saudi arabias top leaders continue to say that they had no involvement whatsoever with the disappearance of the missing the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The president tweeting this out just a little while ago. Quote just spoke with the crowned prince of saudi arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their turkish consulate. He was with secretary of state mike pompeo during the call and told me that he has already started and will rapidly expand a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly. Now, just before that tweet there, the preside
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you for joining us this evening. Just hours before President Trump held a Campaign Rally in wisconsin, several people he regularly attacks became the targets of very real and dangerous threats. Right now, a search is under way for a suspect or suspects who sent explosive devices to two former president s. A former secretary of state, are former attorney general and a current member of congress, a liberal activist george soros and right here the new york offices of cnn. The president took to the stage just a short time ago and addressed the multiple threats. Well, sort of. The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories. Have to do it. Have to do it. Theyve got to stop. Bring people together. Oh, my gosh. The media has a responsibility to bring people together . The media is supposed to report on you. Thats not our responsibility. Thats yours.