Kcanadians coming from the othe direction. Eventually bradley will tell them to halt. This is a controversial decision at normandy because its thought that it allows germans to escape who otherwise might not have. Well, regardless of that, you do end up with an encirclement eventually by about august 18th, 1944. Tens of thousands of germans had escaped. Some tafrnks and vehicles had escaped. The two sides do join hands in a town called shamboa. Whats interesting is that its not a link up of americans and british, its americans and polish. The Company Commander is reconning ahead of his unit on that day and they are under heavy artillery fire. He is go to have orders to move forward and he in thes a guy in a funny looking uniform. He knows hes not a german but hes not sure who he is. It turns out its a polish army commander. You have a polish Armor Division moving from the other direction. The commander tells waters, this is the first ever meeting of polish and american soldiers on a ba
Host hugh hewitt. Talk host , nbcs Andrea Mitchell, former adviser to president Obama Stephanie cutter, and historian and journalist evan thomas. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, this the meet the press with chuck todd. Good morning. It is dynasty weekend. They come from the two most powerful political families in american politics today. But neither jeb bush nor Hillary Clinton wants to be defined by their last names, and this morning both campaigns are hard at work, jeb bush back from europe is in miami preparing for his announcement tomorrow. And his campaign has released a little teaser today. Its a video that also happens to unveil the name of the campaign and logo, and look whats missing, one key word, bush. Hillary clinton woke up in iowa this morning. And for those who wondered if shes going to start taking questions from the media, well, weve learned that she will. It will be local tv interviews all this week throughout the early st
Support from the air. Really its amazing how much we do know. This centers around the critical city of mosul. The site of the an embarrassing defeat for the iraqi army last year. U. S. Planners and advisers i they will have the iraqi army ready to fight by next may. The peshmerga will operate the blocking force to go with block isil down. The u. S. And Coalition Air power will continue to pound isis. You cannot pock pie ground from the air. Isis is change its tactics. But what is stunning is they are making things public. It was not a leak, it was a planned Conference Call with Central Command and reporters. This public battle plan could go one of two ways. Some isis fighters might retreat in fear of the attack or it might gift enemy more time to prepare their defenses. But at best it appears a risky bet. We are aiding and abetting the enemy. I dont understand why the president and the Administration Want to aid and abet the enemy. It will expose our forces to certain risk because they
Of who is on the other end of the phone. United states does not recognize taiwan has a country. The chinese will see this as an infringement of what they see as their sovereignty. If youre just waking up, happy saturday and thank you for sharing some of your time with us here. We always appreciate it. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Taiwan on line one, hardly sounds Like Fighting words, but apparently it is in under 50 days until president elect donald trump enters the oval office, he is taerg up the diplomatic script in washington. Yesterday he spoke on the phone with the president of taiwan. That breaks with nearly 40 years of u. S. Diplomatic relations with china. Well, this morning, china is calling this a shenanigan staged by taiwan. Trumps Transition Team says the president of taiwan offered her congratulations to the president elect on the phone. They also talked about the, quote, close, political, economic and security ties that exist between taiwan
The outing of a whistleblower. President trump has been casting on twitter looking for a way to defend himself, hes been raising eye brows with a series of attacks that he launched relating to this ukraine controversy. He claims he had the right to meet the whistleblower whose identity is being protected right now. Hes painting this person as an accuser. Hes also accusing the house of intelligence adam schiff for treason. Hes claiming that a civil war could break out of democrats successfully if removing him from office. Democrats are more and more united and coordinated across different epnds. They have not unveil a coordinated messaging strategy. We did see the white house allies out, what we saw was defending the president against impeachment little in the way of defense of the president s actual context on the phone call with the ukraine president. Sarah westwood, thank you for that reporting. Lets go to capitol hill our manu raju is joining us live. We expect an gres sif push from