Of juneteenth as demands for policing reform reverberate across the country. There is no playbook for what we are dealing with right now across this country. Is change on the way . Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms coming up. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is. Remembering that there is a president ial election in less than five months. Is hoping to be back in his comfort zone this weekend holding his First Campaign rally in months. Saturday night in the city of tulsa in ruby red oklahoma. The but the event was a much smaller than expected crowd. And six members of the team had tested positive for covid19. Instead of a speech of unity and hope, President Trump gave what critics described as a meandering speech filled with complaints and falsehoods. He talked for 14 minutes about west point and defending his wobbly walk down that ramp. He made no mention of black americans in tulsa 99 years ago this month or black floyd. The president also seemed to min
Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon which would make it far more dangerous, and would give it scope for even greater action in the region the Prime Minister didnt offer any viable alternatives. And now there is a potential new complication for the iran Nuclear Talks. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell may fasttrack a measure to give the senate the ability to sign off on the Nuclear Deal Still in negotiations. A Senior Administration official told me that the president would veto that legislation. The white house showed what the president was up to during the netenyahus speech. They offered up this picture of the president holding a Video Conference with other european leaders, talking about the situation in ukraine. In the situation room. So guys that the president did have Something Else on his books. Besides watching netenyahus speech. Getting back to the Prime Minister from israel if his goal was to get congress to jam up the works up on capitol hill it may be mission accomplished. Back
Im michael smerconish. Secretary of state john kerry and irans president both expressed optimism that an agreement can be reached on Irans Nuclear program. Kerry told reporters in switzerland this morning there is substantial progress in the struggle to reach agreement. Over the past few days i had lengthy negotiations with iranian team about the steps that iran must take to demonstrate that its Nuclear Program now and ongoing into the future is exclusively for peaceful purposes. Over the past months the p5 1 have made substantial progress towards that fundamental goal. Though important gaps remain. Irans president told reporters today that a deal with the u. S. Is within reach and achievable. But what will bebe do . It was the iranian issue that caused Prime Minister netanyahu address our congress. This deal is at the heart of the broken relationship between the u. S. And israel and the question that will be raised in the event of an agreement is whether Prime Minister netanyahu might
Republican on the House Foreign Affairs committee, congressman darrell issa. Our correspondents and analysts standing by as we cover all the news breaking right now. First to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. The president talked at the pentagon after he came out of that briefing with top wartime commanders. He talked about the fact as you said that the fight against isis will take a long time. And he repeated several times that it is going to take more than just the u. S. Military that there will have to be partners on the ground, local forces in iraq and syria to make all of this work. That the u. S. Cant take responsibility for the success on its own. And he also pinpointed exactly what he expects to see happening in syria. Have a listen to what he had to say. Indeed were intensifying our efforts against isils base in syria. Our air strikes will continue to target the oil and gas facilities that fund so much of their operations. Were going after the isil leadership and infra
This is a fox news alert. The bloody siege of the natural gas complex in the Sahara Desert is over. Aalgerian special forces killed the mit militants who for four s held hundreds of hodges including several americans. The sad news is at least 23 of the hostages were killed. The president has just released this statement. Today the thoughts and prayers of the American People are with the families of all those who were killed and injured in the terrorist attack in algeria. The blame for this tragedy rests with the terrorists who carried it out, and the United States condemns their actions in the strongest possible terms. Meanwhile, on a happier note tonight, in washington the first lady and daughters sasha and malia opened the inauguration weekend honoring the children of military families. It starred katy perry. [ music ] usher and the cast of glee also performed, but it was Michelle Obamas hair do is what folks were talking about. This is what inauguration is all about. Its about celeb