This is the sooebs cbs overnight new the. It was a bloody weekend in egypt as two churches were the scene of bombings. The attacks come less than a week after President Trump met with egypts president at the white house. Where the two leaders vowed to fight terrorism. Mr. Trump condemned the attacks and says he has great confidence in president el sisi. Reporter video of the st. Georges mens choir was streaming live on the internet, when a bomb exploded at the Coptic Church. Rescuers sifted through glass and bloody pews which minutes before had been packed with worshippers celebrating palm sunday. And isis claimed responsibility. But it wouldnt being only isis attack on christians, four hours after the first blast, a suicide bomber targeted st. Marks, 80 miles away. The head of the Coptic Church had presided over Palm Sunday Services earlier in the day but left before the explosion. More than a dozen people were killed. Angry crowds gathered outside, stretching on bloody palm fropds le
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Im meg oliver in for annemarie green. Foreign policy Takes Center Stage for the Trump Administration as secretary of state Rex Tillerson prepares to make his First Official visit to moscow tomorrow. Meanwhile officials are defending last weeks missile strikes in syria. Roxana saberi is in new york with latest. Good morning. Good morning, meg. Top officials are taking a tough new stance for russia and its support for the syria regime, but theyre offering different views on the future of syrias president. Ahead of his first diplomatic trip to moscow, secretary of state Rex Tillerson called on russia president Vladimir Putin to rethink bashir al assad. Clearly they have been incompetent and perhaps theyve simply been outmaneuvered by the syrians. Nikki haley insisted the syrians assad. Put it cracks me up that russia can say those things with a straight face. Truly its unreal theyll continue to cover for assad.
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Paul, with ron paul and with richard, the senator black. The senator ron paul and congressman ron paul. And also who resigned schedule of defense. Nobody, i saw on the news, he designed because of syria. Another question asked, why syria brought, because isis came to iraq from syria. Why . Within minutes, a Second Attack to muslim, the city of my mother, by the way, people suffering right now. The city of my mother and im entitled i talked to them they say they would rather die than to live under isis. They need help. They need help. They need to work hard and please come and help us and save us. So we have the status quo, say today in iraq we terminated isis. We finished isis and we left them. After one week, one month, theyre going to come back. When you have a termite, you tent it the you terminate. You terminate the termite. And isis and al qaeda, if you want to destroy them in iraq, you have to destroy them in the syria. You cannot do half the jobs. You have to do complete jobs. I
Could you compare that to comments made yesterday by the president saying that isis ranks are shrinking and morale is sinking. Could that be consistent with what youre seeing on the ground in libya . I guess you were there ten weeks ago roughly . The government of National Accord has been in place that amount of time in tripoli. They have increased support domestically. I would note it has been ready to support the cabinet. They had not been permitted to vote by a minority. You have seen support for the government grow. The libyan people expect more out of the presidency counscil than theyve gotten. Thats normal and natural. People all over the world want more out of their governments than they tend to get and theres frustrations with what the government can actually do. The government needs to do more. Progress being made is made on the ground, sir, every day right now. Theres lots of ground for pessimism and lots of ground for optimism and real progress. If we were today in a situati