air support and american technology, as we saw in my report. but the one thing they are not asking for is to have american troops on the front lines with them, fighting with them. part of that may indeed just be pride, but i think there s also a sense that they feel the u.s. presence in the region, especially a visible presence, is so polarizing that it could almost do more harm than good. all right, thank you very much. as we said, an incredible report. and if you were stunned by seeing the fighters, america s allies fighting in sandals or after one week of training, calling in where the united states is dropping bombs, you can ask more questions. clarissa has a lot of answers. she is answering your questions about this report tonight. you can submit your questions on our facebook page right now. and next, shelter cats getting star treatment. this segment is good for your health. ld run on? it runs on optimism. it s what sparks ideas.
the good of the country. how would you characterize gop leadership right at this minute in the house? gop leadership is just what it was a day ago or a couple days ago. the speaker stepped down and we have a democratic press. we re a nation of laws, not of men, not of individuals. this city and the press loves the horse race between individuals that drives ratings. but we re a nation of laws. to the extent we follow those laws and that process, we re in good shape. it doesn t have to be dramatic if we follow the rules and know what the rules are. and i think the american people are looking for that, right? you got on both sides, the democrat side and the republican side, outsiders are winning disproportionate numbers never seen before in american politics signaling they re more worried about the external word. 19 trillion in debt, their kids can t find job, russia s dropping bombs on syria. they want security and they want an economy that s moving. that s what the american people a
dropping bombs on isis in a sort of coordinated way t. russians exact mix, started picking their own targets. it raises the ability of unwanted confrontation through the russians and military and coalition members as well. they want to coordinate t. first time today the russians are saying, look, we can accept this proposal. we ve got to work out some technical details first, though, then we are ready to go. possible diplomatic break this morning. matthew chance in moscow, thank you so much. escalation in another conflict with high stakes, a top commander says the u.s. plans to draw down troop levels there that may have to be changed. general john campbell telling the senate armed services committee isis and al qaeda are getting stronger in average. campbell did not say what troop levels he is proposing.
are both dropping bombs in syria now on opposite sides of that conflict. there was also a bunch of news on the 2016 presidential race, which we ll have for you tonight, including some startling news from the donald trump campaign and some bad news for both the chris christie campaign and the rand paul campaign. tonight for the interview we ve got a sitting supreme court justice. what? yes. ari melber is here tonight, having just interviewed sitting supreme court justice stephen breyer. it is very rare for justice breyer to do an interview. but we have got that here tonight. plus there s a hurricane in the atlantic which you may have noticed or heard something about. there s a lot going on tonight. we ve got a big show. but we start tonight in washington. we start in washington, where something that was supposed to be a sure bet is now starting to look like it might not happen. in the past few years alone i have visited poland, hungria, estonia, russia, and georgia. we don t have the
country s warplanes. the talk were supposed to open up lines of communication to make sure there were no crossed wires, no miscommunication, no accidental war between russia and the united states with the russian and united states militaries operating in conflict, in such proximity. those talks, they announced yesterday, were supposed to start very soon. instead, russia this morning just started bombing. and the way they announced it was by sending a guy into one of our embassies in the middle east to announce that it was under way and please get out of the way. even though that russian official who marched into the embassy to make this announcement said all american planes should be grounded in syria, to make way for russian planes, the u.s. didn t ground u.s. planes. they kept up u.s. strikes today. so both russian aircraft and american aircraft were simultaneously in syrian skies today, both dropping bombs and not in pursuit of the same objective. both dropping bombs on opposite sid