Somalia will remain a top foreignpolicy for the department of state as it has been for the obama administration. This past year marks some changes in somalia and in our bilateral relationship with somalia. The election was a welcome of a lyrical was stop because of the support for the Peace Process and the leadership role of our regional partners notably the African Union and the intergovernmental authority. On january 17, we formally recognize the federal government of somalia after two decades a Transitional Government. Nonetheless, the u. S. Government also understood very clearly that somalia would face considerable challenges as it worked to rebuild its statehood. The successes of the African Union mission in somalia, contribute companies and Strategic Partners to combat al shabaab are demonstrating the strength of an action african led a model. Thisbased al qaeda affiliate is a dangerous present. The terrorist attacks on the west gate Shopping Mall for which alshabaab has taken c
Offering a scathing rebuke of the fired National Security adviser, venting his disgust and his disdain about flynns admitted lies, even briefly suggesting they may be treason us. Flynns team agreed to a delay in sentencing after the judge suggested he might not go along with the special counsels recommendation for little or no jail time. Tonight the man who chanted lock her up at the Republican National Convention May have narrowly escaped being locked up himself. This hour, ill talk to Senate Intelligence committee mech jack reid and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. Jessica, it was a jawdropping hearing and it ended with a cliffhanger. A cliffhanger indeed, wolf. No Sentencing Agency we expected. Instead, it was nearly two hours of tough talk from the federal judge who stressed prison time was not off the table, even though thats what flynns lawyers and muellers team essentially agreed to in their sent