Youd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. But it was interesting. In that senate primary, that Republican Senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. He called himself a former Pentagon Expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. He said, quote, i think a lot of people, im not sure they understand the history of russia. You go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. It actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. This whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. Thats russias business, not anybody elses. And this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. He went on in some detail,
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Egypts president vows that terrorists will not go unpunished. Correspondent conor powell is following the story from our middle east newsroom two hello, conor. Mike, in the last few hours, the Egyptian Military has launched air strikes in the sinai desert, the first of whats expected to be a series of military responses. Todays attack in egypts northern sinai province appears to have been as wellplanned and sophisticated as it was deadly. More than 230 people were killed after militants detonated a bomb outside a mosque in the small village of beer hall some 40 militants in trucks open fire, killing dozens more. Egypts president alsisi who seized power in a promise of restoring column to the country appeared on state tv tonight and from the Security Forces respond forcefully. The military forces and civil police will take revenge for our martyrs and bring back security and stability with force in the near future. This is our response. We will respond to this attack with extreme power w
Egypts president vows that terrorists will not go unpunished. Correspondent conor powell is following the story from our middle east newsroom two hello, conor. Mike, in the last few hours, the Egyptian Military has launched air strikes in the sinai desert, the first of whats expected to be a series of military responses. Todays attack in egypts northern sinai province appears to have been as wellplanned and sophisticated as it was deadly. More than 230 people were killed after militants detonated a bomb outside a mosque in the small village of beer hall some 40 militants in trucks open fire, killing dozens more. Egypts president alsisi who seized power in a promise of restoring column to the country appeared on state tv tonight and from the Security Forces respond forcefully. The military forces and civil police will take revenge for our martyrs and bring back security and stability with force in the near future. This is our response. We will respond to this attack with extreme power w
Mike e manuel is keeping track of this all for us on capitol hill. Mike, what an afternoon. Reporter no question about it. Good afternoon to you. The house vote wrapping up. It was 227205 when republicans realized they had the votes, applause erupted on the house floor. Lawmakers got a pitch from President Trump coming up to capitol hill earlier today. They also got an appeal from the House Speaker who has worked his entire career trying to get tax reform done. Its about tax relief, fairness. Its about simplicity. Its about easing the stress and anxiety thats in this country. What we really need to do is we need better jobs, more jobs, faster economic growth, higher wages. Reporter earlier key democrats tried to attack the plan saying this is a bad deal. The republicans thought of this process by saying every american, everyone in america, will get a tax cut. Now theyre saying on average, people will get a tax cut. Even that is incorrect. Reporter 13 republicans mostly from high tax st
They are in utter disgrace in terms of equal justice under the law. The rule of law and, of course, that means our constitution. They now pose a direct threat to you, the American People, and our american republic. We are going to break it down for you. It is something the mainstream media, i promise, will never do. Thats called their job. And also tonight, new information about the trumphating,ar hillaryloving, fbi agent peter strzok. We have Department Officials pouring over 10,000 Text Messages between strzok and his fbi lawyer girlfriend, lisa page, so they can turn over a specific trump bashing messages to the house intelligence committee. We are learning that strzoks fingerprints are all over that antitrump fake a news russian dossier bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. Also, after decades of defending bill and Hillary Clintons abusive and destructive behavior towards women, democrats are demanding that senator grope himself, al franken, step down after yet more accusers have