There needed to be more groundwork done. Well, it turns out that another day later, as hes on his way out of new york, the iranians sent word to the white house that president rouhani would welcome a telephone call. And so today at about 2 30 in the afternoon, president obama, the white house, they placed this call. He is in his car on his way to j. F. K. For his flight home to tehran. And he answers, and the two men speak for 15 minutes. They speak largely about the Iranian Nuclear program. But a few other issues. And at the end, pru rouhani signs off with an English Version of have a nice day. And president obama says goodbye in farsi. And we have history made. So its sort of an extraordinary end to a week where there was just a great deal of anticipation at that this might be the moment for the first highlevel contact in more than 30 years. Rose so what do you read into it based on what the president said in the Briefing Room . Well, president obama said that he saw the basis for an
And at the end, president rouhani signs off with an English Version of have a nice day, and president obama says goodbye in farsi, and we have history made. Rose we continue this evening with the foreign minister of france Laurent Fabius who is in new york for the u. S. General assembly. As far as iran is concerned, the words are good and they are new, and its important. But what matters at the end of the day is actions, deeds. And, therefore, all of the tasks will be to assure that the irany people do implement what they are talking about. Thats our perspective. If there is an opportunity we have to seize it because situation is serious. Rose we conclude with the egyptian foreign minister of where they are after the overthrow of mohammed morsi. Is there enough Common Ground or not . Thats going to take more detail. But i think the iranians met almost everybody at the highest level available here at the general assembly. Ultimately, even with the american part, the telephone conversati
The iraqi army stands poised to take back tick tikrit as Government Forces are said to be within striking distance of sadham husseins hometown. Nooiblt three weeks now, imran khan brings us the latest from baghdad. The battle iraqi ready to go into the city. They say that they are amassing reinforcement and they will go down they are amassing there. Proisil and social media accounts say they are ready for the fight in the town and they have brought in reinforcements. While all of this goes on, there has been a delivery of hardware from the russians to the iraqis of five fighter jets. The f16s that were promised by america to iraq havent been delivered and that has an oiled many senior iraqi politicians including conclusions the Prime Minister, himself, at the very highest levels. There have been conversations between the iraqis and americans about trying to speed up this delivery they gone to the russians who have managed these five aircraft within 24 hours. Means the iraqis say that t
Gillian so in that first post election interview President Trump spoke to our own Maria Bartiromo yesterday. He doubled down on the election being rigged and stolen but understands it will be difficult to change the outcome. Still insisting he is not going to accept defeat. Listen. President trump my mind will not change in six months. There was tremendous cheating here. The mailin vote is a disaster. If republicans allow it to happen, you will never have another republican elected in the history of this country. At a senate level or president ial level. Trace john roberts is live from the north lawn. Good morning. Another week, no end in sight for the president s legal battles apparently. It is going on and on and on with no end in sight. Good morning trace and gillian. The president prolific about the topic on twitter yesterday. No way did we lose this election and also questioning why republicans did so well in down ballot races particularly in the house yet he lost the president ia
Prospect. A month after i became majority leader i direct canned the chairs and members of our relevant committees to start drafting a package to create new american jobs with the endless frontier act serving as the core of this earth. I also this effort. I also said to everyone, to people on both sides of the aisle, that if both sides worked together, id put a bill on the floor of the senate later that spring, and thats what happened when we overwhelmingly passed the act in june of 2021. It took three weeks, lots of debate, amendments. Just as the senate ought to work even on major and difficult legislation, as this has been. Senators cantwell and wicker were tremendous leaders in this effort and skillfully managed the floor process. They deserve a great deal of praise not only for passing last years bill, but for their efforts this year as well. A year later the legislation were passing today contains many of the critical investments in that bill. Both bills make historic investments