tr assad s perspective and the syrian government perspective over the years, they feel that if the u.s. government wanted him out of power, he would be gone by now. the fact that he isn t gone, means they want him to stay in power. he s the least worst alternative. so the action against the air base was really a slap on the wrist. in my mind reenforced his view that the u.s. wants him to stay in power because it was just a limited proportional targeted atta attack. so you don t think this was you say overconfidence. was this to test president trump? it could be. it could be a message sent to the israelis because there s been some israeli tensions of late in an attack into syria. but it could have been to test the trump madministration. i can t believe the russians are happy about this at all because it certainly placed them in a difficult position.
joint chief of staff. visit comes as u.s. increases involvement in northern iraq to assist local forces in the battle to retake mosul frl isis. chicago police arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with assault of teenage girl streamed live on facebook and watched by 40 people none of whom reported it. authorities are trying to locate five or six adults in that atta attack. the boy currently is in police custody. facing felony charges of criminal sexual assault, manufacturing of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography. mother and three-year-old daughter killed in a powerful thunderstorm system with hurricane winds that swept across the south yesterday. two were killed when a tornado flipped trailer home yesterday morning. forecasters say the storm system will continue moving east throughout the day with rain, hail, damaging winds all expected.
u.s./nato defense commitments. to deflect attention away from ukraine. so in the christopher steele dossier, that s the alleged quid pro quo. russia attacks the u.s. election for its own purpose but also corrupts and collaborates with the trump campaign in that attack and the trump campaign allegedly agrees to take steps to help russia along the way, drop that pro-ukraine platform out of the republican the pro-ukraine plank out of the republican party platform, which they did at the convention, inject a whole new controversy instead of america being nato s biggest detractor and make every other country feel attacked in terms of their financial contributions in that alliance. this is the stuff that the ranking democratic on the intelligence committee adam schiff, described as the
lewd colluded in an attack against the united states last year. americans are speaking up about it and trying to effect the course of events. house republicans plan to hold their vote on repealing obamacare on thursday of this week. there is going to be a whip count on that vote. so far, they are confirming 17 house republicans will vote no on the obamacare repeal. that 17 number is important. if they get to 22 no votes, it s dead. even just in the house. it already appears to be dead once it tries to get to the senate but they could kill it in the house, too. this is a volatile time. this is going to be a very busy couple of days, including this building pressure back home. watch this space. special edition? because, actually there s five. ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! hooooly mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style.
counterintelligence investigation into the russian atta attack. we know it started in late july. we also have the fbi and nsa confirming their assessment that the russians did this loudly and didn t particularly try to cover their tracks. the fbi director also told you that it appears that the russians directly released the first trench of stolen documents that they had and a second one through wikileaks appears to have an intermediary. all of those pieces of information to me were sort of nuggets that i drew out of the 5 1/2 hour hearing. i wonder if there are other things that you saw today that have been publicly disclosed for the first time. you know, i m not sure that i can point to any others but i would say this with respect to director comey s discussion of the russians loudly making their presence known. i m not sure that i would draw that same conclusion and part of this is what the russians intended at the outset, that it