Thank you all for coming today and staying for the full day and for this final panel. Im brian catoulus for the center for American Progress. Every day it seems like president Trumps National security approach seems like a daily train wreck across the board and on iran, in particular, it feels like a train wreck. But lets be clear. We are where we are today on iran by no accident. What President Trump is implementing right now is an approach which is erratic, its confused but its the product of a very concerted effort to undermine what i thought was important work under the Obama Administration. Many people in the room were part of that inside the government or outside. And we have a great panel which john has introduced and im not going to go through the bios and things like that. What were going to do today is have a bit of a conversation for a few minutes, talking about where are we and where do we go from here. Thats the main thrust, but then were going to draw you in. Theres so mu
Strong ties to iran you remember right all right well now according to the times Iraqi Military and intelligence officials have raised doubts about who fired the rockets that started that spiral of events saying that they believe its unlikely that the militia of the United States blamed for the attack by hezbollah carried it out because the rockets were launched from a sunni muslim part of Kirkuk Province the tory is this province is notorious for attacks by the Islamic State a Sunni Terrorist Group which would have made the area hostile territory for these shiite militias like the the top hezbollah from in fact some of those same iraqi intelligence officials well they dont have direct evidence believe the attack was more than likely carried out by. Wait for it. Because not only did isis carry out 3 attacks near the base just 10 days prior but a key yeah kiya pickup truck used in the attack was found less than a 1000 feet from an isis execution site. You know it did reminds me of somet
York times is now reporting my friends that when it came to the justification for the late december airstrikes that killed 25 members of an Iraqi Militia group in the assassination of reign in military leader general case im still the mahdi the United States may have gotten it wrong. Remember when we were originally told by the u. S. Military Industrial Complex u. S. President donald trump u. S. Secretary of state might and most of our lovely u. S. Mainstream news media that the original rocket attack on the k. One military base in iraq that wounded 6 and killed one u. S. Contractor back in december was conducted by an evil Iraqi Militia group with strong ties to iran you remember right all right well now according to the times a rocky military and intelligence officials have raised doubts about who fired the rockets that started that spiral of events saying that they believe its unlikely that the militia of the United States blamed for the attack by hezbollah carried it out because th
He will be traveling to washington hell be here a couple of days saying negotiating teams from both sides remain in close communication. President trump saying hes going to later travel to beijing to begin talks on the next phase. I think well talk to eunice we never know until we know. The last thing we heard from eunice was, you know, the president says there is a signing next week but havent heard anything from the chinese side she did point out that it was good for the chinese to have this happening now ahead of the Lunar New Year too my point is that they would never say anything and deliberately stay and let us conjecture it is always bad they never signed off on this the day before the market pulled back a little after someone said something that the chinese are uncomfortable with something until we hear right from the Commerce Ministry. Just a lot of times sitting there, what they looked like. They are more reserved and are tweeting about this stuff. Anyway, looking good. Hope
We have a wet start to the day for san jose and milpitas as well as palo alto and saratoga. Wet in custody this morning. We want to the winds kick up behind the cold front. We are catching some clearing. We have some sunshine and mostly sunny skies for friday. We will time it out for you on teacher cast take you hour by hour, coming up. We are dealing with look services. Be careful to hit the roadways this morning. Reports of vehicles spitting out as they go on and off the freeways. Heres a live look at the traffic. It is blocking the left lane as you head into the tunnel. You see the traffic slowing as you make you way through the westbound side. Give yourself a few extra minutes. It is busy and you are backed up beyond the maze at this point. The easter sure freeway approach is slow coming off of 80. We are seeing some brake lights coming off of berkeley. You will see a slow ride as you make your way into San Francisco. The good news is no delays on the lower deck. There is some floo