Good afternoon. Welcome to the washington institute. Im delighted to welcome you all to the postlabor day gathering, a celebration, celebration of the publication of this this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When youre a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore or your picture on a coin, its not because you did nothing during your time in office. Its not because you waited out the term. Its because you took Big Decisions that affected the fate of your nation, often at moments of great crisis. Often decisions that were unpopular or that risked that this would be your last term in office. But decisions that reflected your vision about the direction of your nation and your people. And if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin, its because decades later your people looked back and said, thank you for having the boldness, for having the courage to take those decisions. Israel today is remarkably a strong, selfconfident country for many reasons far
The impeachment increase has been looking into whether President Trump was trying to use leverage in military aid to get dirt on his president ial rivals, to have ukraine orestigate whether joe biden the Democratic National committee. William taylor, in his Text Messages expressed concern about this and at one point called it crazy to withhold military aid in a bid to get dirt on the president s political rivals. How significant is his testimony . It is already being built along those lines by some of the Previous State Department of National Security team members who have testified of the last two weeks, including the former u. N. Ambassador rice said she involvement about outside the regular channels. Where are we at this point, these are the early stages . The timeline for the inquiry has been batted around. What i have been told is it would go into december if not beyond. There are still dozens of witnesses they hope to get to, not the least of which include giuliani himself. There
Fake news geniuses who along with radical dems and rinos criticized his decision and called for an endless continuation involvement in what the president termed, long bloodstained region. Turkey, syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries. We have done them a Great Service and we done a great job for all of them. I now we are getting out. Let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand. There was some political pundits who responded to turkeys offense of in syria by calling for yet another American Military intervention. I dont think so. They are the ones that got us into the middle east mess. But never had the vision or the courage to get us out. They just talk. Lou for now on todays historic achievement, we turn to chief White House Correspondent john roberts. President trump declared victory for his formal policy today announcing they agreed to make the five long ceasefire in syria permanent. Agreed to from the white house to announce a major breakthro
Fake news geniuses who along with radical dems and rinos criticized his decision and called for an endless continuation involvement in what the president termed, long bloodstained region. Turkey, syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries. We have done them a Great Service and we done a great job for all of them. I now we are getting out. Let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand. There was some political pundits who responded to turkeys offense of in syria by calling for yet another American Military intervention. I dont think so. They are the ones that got us into the middle east mess. But never had the vision or the courage to get us out. They just talk. Lou for now on todays historic achievement, we turn to chief White House Correspondent john roberts. President trump declared victory for his formal policy today announcing they agreed to make the five long ceasefire in syria permanent. Agreed to from the white house to announce a major breakthro
Sense of a 380 to pick up tourists stranded by the bankruptcy of trouble for thomas cook. The deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding are adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election no one has yet certain exactly what happened in the most a color region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base where they killed fighters and arrested others the question is why so many civilians died lets go to our correspondent rob mcbride who joins us live from kabul rob there seems as i mentioned that to be a tremendous amount of confusion about the death toll and what exactly the intended target was what more do we know. Thats right i mean all sides it seems are still trying to ascertain exactly what happened on sunday night what everybody is agreed on of course is that there has been a substantial loss of life part of the problem here is mr color district is a taliban stronghold deep in Helmand Provin