Congressman asked mr. Kerry, is there al qaeda, people say they have gotten stronger. He said, no, i say officially they arent there. The main combat unit, alnusra, is a unit of al qaeda. They know about this. This is not pleasant for me to see this. While we communicate them and assume they are decent people he lies openly and knows that he lies. This is sad. Bill chief white who is correspondent ed henry on the north lawn starts our coverage. You wonder how comfortable whether it will be for the president today. Is white house reacting to putins accusation there . Reporter they are. To raise doubts whether the assad regime which he is close to was really behind the horrible chemical weapons attack on august 21st. Raising doubt about the al qaeda in the rebel groups and maybe the rebels would behind the chemical weapons attack. White house says they believe there are moderate elements of the rebels, Syrian Rebels and they think putin is flatout wrong. It will get awkward. June, presid
U. S. Intelligence Community Leaders are there. You will hear from them. This is really significant. Despite the president s claim just in december that isis is defeated in syria or nearly so, the intel leaders are warning that that is not the case and that the terror group still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria and those fighters quote very likely will continue to plot against the u. S. We cannot overstate how significant that is. Le that is really big. This is just the beginning. Reporter this is just the beginning and a much different tone from National Security leaders than from the president himself and the remarks about isis significant given what the president has been saying over and over again that isis is essentially defeated and that is one reason why u. S. Troops need to come out of syria just to give a sense of what dan coats, director of nationally intelligence just said. He did say isis commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria and maintains eight
Links 8/30/2021 | naked capitalism nakedcapitalism.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nakedcapitalism.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
now to the cnn exclusive, a commercial drone may have been used for the first time in a plot to kill a head of state. the target, embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro. cnn learned the failed attempt happened last august. new videos we obtained show the plot involved commercial devices bought online and prepared over weeks by army defectors. nick paton walsh has this exclusive. reporter: they thought it was fireworks first, but it was a drone bomb. the brazen assassination attempt against nicolas maduro. the first bid to kill a world leader with commercial drone technology bought online, it could have killed everyone on the stage or dozens of civilians nearby if it missed. the crowd scattered and venezuelans began to wonder what really happened. was it a fake? even now the opposition leader
special forces entered these streets. they d been coming back to make arrests all during the afternoon when we re invited to meet cloud-to-air lightninga carolina s extend family. now this is all she has to feed for this day, and they say now they too want maduro gone. they can t hold it in anymore. one of her cousins says. we re being crushed with beggers now always begging. this isn t political, it s survival. people are killing each other for a kilo of rice, for water. army defectors outside venezuela called on them just to rise up. we ll be hearing from one junior officer that even when you can t feed your family, it s more complicated the i would say 80% of soldiers are against the government, some even go to demonstrations. but the big fishes, the senior