Prisoners in northern iraq, secretary carter promised there would be more raids like that, and todays move is an effort to make good on that promise. In more than three hours of testimony before the Armed Services committee, ashe carter and Joseph Dunford faced predictably sceptical questions. Are we winning, mr. Secretary . We will win. Are we winning now . Were going to win. Reporter have we currently contained isil . We have not contained isil. Both democrats and republicans seemed dissatisfied with the pentagon talking points, but theyre making progress, and gaining momentum. I can climb down from here and say that im making progress, and if i run the next 15 feet, im gaining momentum. Reporter carter unveiled one wrinkle to the plan, something that he called a special Expeditionary Targeting force, u. S. Comandos to be based in irbil, iraq, to conduct raids in both iraq and syria. Sometimes jointly with the iraqi forces and sometimes unilaterally. With a mission to free hostages,
The president of france has taken another step towards Building Coalition to fight isil. He met with his russian counter part. This as the hand shake and smiles. The two leaders began sharing intelligence and coordinating air strikes. Russia is also willing to work with the United States as well. As dana lewis reports taking the fight to isil was also on the agenda in the u. D. That leads to the case for expands war. Prime minister today essentially said britain is in the crosshairs of the islamic state. The reason for acting is the very direct threat thats sill poses to our country, and our way of life. He is asked parliament to consider expanding the current isil, british claimants currently hit iraq, but not syria. British tornadoes was target war planes. We shouldnt be content to secure our security to allies. With our allies we should be part of that action, not standing aside from it. Britain was rattle bed the attacks that left 130 dead. French president is desperately trying to
Millions of dollars to you during thors today, it may not be able to pay up. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. President obama is wrapping up his visit to paris and the International Climate change summit with a call for action. The president compared Climate Change to battling groups like isil and said the time is now to deal with both issues threatening the world. Al jazeeras senior washington correspondent is live in washington. The president made big pronouncements about dealing with Climate Change. He certainly did. He actually said i think were going to solve this thing, that is Climate Change and Global Warming. 150 heads of state, some 200 nations from around the world represented in paris, a long planned meeting on Climate Change. Many countries coming to the table with individual plans to reduce their own carbon footprint, their carbon emissions. The president conceded that even if all plans were to go into effect, it would not meet the targe
Could the military have a drug problem . The he is department of defense spends billions of drugs to treat Mental Illness and reduce pain, in fact a recent report by the department of Veterans Affairs found that v. A. Doctors prescribe specifically more opiates to stress patients than other veterans. Congress held a hearing. Family members, veterans and doctors testified about the culture of prescribing drugs at the v. A. Unfortunately, we have given the veterans the impression that for whatever problem they have, we have a pill to help it. One or two bills to depression, one for anxiety. One or two for sleep, one for ptsd. Add a few more pills for hypertension, diabetes, asthma, then add one or two or three precipitations for narcotics, what happens if a vet adds some over the counter medications or if he drinks alcohol . Suicide and accidental overdose among veterans and active Service Members is twice as high as the national average. Leading some to question whether the drugs are tr
Own problems before telling society how to fix theirs . Varney company is about to begin. Charles lets check the big board. Meandering. Nasdaq is the index well all watch. Will it match the alltime high . Good chance it will match it this week. Oil is trying to find something of a bottom. 49 held. May be tested today. Right now 49. 55. National average for gallon of regular, up two cents over the weekend. Prices go up a lot faster than they go down dont they . Here the big story. Big story from the associated press, lefts tax the rich mantra is working. Wealthy households pay too little while 60 say middle class households pay too much in taxes. Heritage Foundation Stephen moore joins us. Stephen, this was a shocker to me. Felt like americans in general felt everyone was overtaxed. Maybe like the left is winning the pr war. Well maybe in the very short term. First of all i agree the middle class is overtaxed in this country. There is no question about that. Government spends too much a