Failing at that time and they were two of the major architects. And i know they give credit to many others, but two of the major architects of the surge which turned out to be a great sacrifice of american blood and treasure, a success. The black flags of isil are now flying over yet another major iraqi city, ramadi, the capital of iraqs Anbar Province. And reports overnight suggest that isil controls the syrian city of palmyra as well. This hearing does not is not about the fall of any one city as important as those losses are, but rather what its revealed about the limitations of an overly constrained american air campaign. The weaknesses of iraqi forces the growing maligned role of iran, and the ineffectiveness and inadequacy of u. S. Military support for iraqi and syrian partners. But most concerning it highlights the shortcomings of the administrations indecisive policy, inadequate commitment, and incoherent strategy. This misguided approach has failed to stop if not foster the ex
Early 2012, and then the c. I. A. Became convinced that we could actually vet the Free Syrian Army and i will say that the institute for the study of war had some impact on provide them information that assisted them with that conclusion, and general petraeus would admit at the time. He presented a briefing to secretary clinton and panetta and dempsey, general dempsey and they agreed with him that this force could in fact be armed equipped and trained robustly. But the administration did not do that. And tragically, as a result of that, the Free Syrian Army now is a mere shadow of its former self. It is frankly theres frankly not much of it left. Senator mccain and could i add, in desperation, isnt it true theyve joined forces with al nusra, an affiliated orlingnyization . Is that true . General keane organizations that were part of their organization have broken from them. They were islamic organizations, not radicalized and they have joined with alnusra, who has gain masters degree t
Wildest dreams why they would want to do that. I cant explain Peter Navarro. Hes in a world by himself. Here are the facts at this hour. In georgia, republican Governor Brian Kemp is overruling mayors in georgia who have ordered mandatory masks in their cities, despite the Public Health guidelines. The nations largest retailer walmart will require shoppers to wear masks starting monday at all its stores and sams clubs. Moments ago target and cvs announcing they will also require masks in their stores. And alabama becomes the latest state to require mask wearing after governor kay ivey issued a sweeping order requiring masks to be worn in public. This as there is a major shakeup now in President Trumps campaign. Just four months before the election, Campaign Manager Brad Parscale is being bemode demote replaced by bill stepien. And joe biden is surging ahead of donald trump with a double digit lead over donald trump with registered voters, both nationally and in battleground states. Wel
This is defining the soft biggest of low expectations. Its a start. Until then, we say to you sayanora. Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. Campaign in crisis. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Tonight is the Trump Campaign in crisis . Yesterday trump fired his campaign manager, a slew of new polls shows him falling behind Hillary Clinton anywhere from five to eight points nationally, and today, were learning just how far behind trump is in terms
of money. Trump started the month with just 1. 3 million cash on hand. Clinton has 42. 5 million. A huge gap there. Trump has fewer than 70 paid staff, total. Clinton has ten times that number. Trump has spent 0, no money, not a single cent in battleground states. Clinton has poured in over 20 million. Trump down played concerns about his finances. I understand money better than anybody. I understand it far better than hillary and im way up on the economy when it comes to questions on the economy. We have a hart, im having more difficulty, f
On the way with more rain in the extreme weather center. And the rain continues this saturday here in washington. Hope its a little drier where you are at home. Im leland vittert. Elizabeth great to be with you, im elizabeth prann. Voters in france will have a runoff that will have a global impact. One campaign trying to deal with fallout after claims it was the victim of a massive and coordinated Hacking Attack designed to destabilize the election. The french are about in a 48 hour Blackout Period before the vote takes place. Greg palkot is in paris, france with the latest. Hi, greg. Hi, elizabeth. Taking a page out of the u. S. Election playbook, the leader here in this president ial elections here in france has been hit by a massive cyber
attack. Thousands of emails and documents seized have the computers of campaign safer of emmanuel macron, they were posted online. While moist of the material is kind of mundane, it is combined according to authorities today, with fake news items m