Allegations have mounted, franken has tried to apologize to his accusers. He has said that he would work with the ethics committee. He said he would try to regain the trust of his minnesota voters. In the end, though, following the resignation earlier this week of democratic congressman john conyers fellow democrats one by one came out in force this week urging franken to resign. Some lawmakers here on capitol hill especially female lawmakers say this is a seed change in how Sexual Harassment is treated up here on capitol hill. The democrats sometimes painfully have stepped forward, conyers longest serving member of congress and said hes got to go. The Democratic Senators have said the same thing about al franken even though most of what he did was before he even became a senator. So, it seems to me a new standard has been set. I think the focus right now needs to be much more on what can w the victims. If somebody here in Congress Left their job because they felt they were being sexua
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Vago welcome to defense news. And navy times investigation about how unknown warnings changed the way the navy operates. But first, president obama went to the pentagon to discuss how best to fan to fight isi critics want more u. S. Troops to take a more direct role in fightingng isis, a move opposed by senior u u. S. Military leaders. The policy battle comes as the outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs of staff issued new National Military strategies markedly different than the one issued four years ago. In that document the dod sought to transition out of iraq and afghanistan into an era of rerelative stability. The new documents hes a campaign against nationstates an violent extremists. Joing us are our guguests. Gentlemen, welcome to the program. Andy, let me start with you. Talk to us a little bit abobout how markedly different this document is from the last one. The president of the United States just a couple of years ago was talking about getting off an eternal war footing. Tel
Va why bush d military aircraft are fully out of the sky. But iran and six wororld powers ended 20 months of talks last week. Supporters of the deal, including the Obama Administration brita, china, france, germany, and china had lit as a historic breakthrough, stabilizing ebola told region. Critics a volatile r region. Joining us today ibarbara slaven. Michael rubin with the american enrprise instititute and the author of a w book, dancing with the devil. Everybody, welcome to the program. Barbara, why is this a good al and what are the critics missing about it . Barbara it prevts iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon for at least a decade. It shrink wraps the nuclear program. It has a numbeof excellent verification measures built into it to preventnt a run iran from cheating. When you consider the alternatives, which could be military actioion by the u. S. Or israel, further destabilizing a region already boiling, i think it is a good deal. Vago michael, you are less supportive of th
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its cacaption contt and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] vago elcome to defense news, i am vago muraradian. The u. S. Armys s chief of staff and w he will lead a force but first, sweden, the largest nation in scandinavia is a regional leader that has been traditionally reluctant to strike. But that changes as russia continues rhetoric and air and land and sea exercises. Recently, moscow threatens to target stockholm. Sweden isolsterg its relationships d exercises and increasing its 5. 7 billion Defense Budget by 10 over the next five years. It is imimproving its military lationship with the United States. Last week, the Supreme Commander of the swedens 54,000 strong top forces metith defense leaders in the united ates. He will retire in october after 40 years in uniform. We met him at the Atlantic Council think tank and i asked him whether the international counity is doing enough to prepare for moscow tha