Anyway. When arizona senator john mccain was running for president in 2008, he was asked about the contentious issue of our relationship with iran. He was running for president at the time, but he nevertheless responded to that question by singing bomb, bomb iran to the tune of barbar. Barbarbara ann. People were listening and it was hilarious. When john mccain ran for president in 2008 and this is years into the war in iraq 2007 2008 and there was anxiety about how the war in iraq was going and how long it had been and how long we were going to stay and why were we there in first place . And john mccain said during that campaign that as far as he was concerned, war in iraq that went on 100 years, that would be okay with him. He was asked a clarifying question on that. He revised that to say actually hed be okay with a thousand year war in iraq. When john mccain was running for president in 2008, Russian Troops crossed the border into a tiny eurasian nation called georgia. John mccain
Sources that the fbi rejected a request from the white house recently to publicly knock down media reports about communications during the 2016 president ial campaign between Donald Trumps associates and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. A white house official says that the request was made only after the fbi indicated to the white house it did not believe all of the reporting was accurate. Multiple u. S. Officials telling cnn the white house sought the help of the bureau and other agencies investigating the russian matter to say the reports were wrong and that there had been in contacts, the officials said. Fbi director james comey responded by rejecting this request according to sources in part because the alleged communications are the subject of an ongoing investigation. White house spokesperson sean spicer says we didnt try to knock the story down. We asked them to tell the truth. The fbi declined to comment, poppy. Pamela, this is not a typical request at all. How did it all
The president elect and his top aides pushing back on reports of disarray in trump tower. We feel really good about transition. I actually would just say its false to say its not going well. Everything up there is going smooth. The president elect as well is proud of how the transition is going. Breaking news on the transition. What can you tell us. Two items of news came out of the briefing that shawn spicer held with reporters. One item is that there is going to be a lobbying ban. We heard part of the purge of the krissie transition evident is that there were a lot of lobbyists involved. Trying to clear that out. Shawn spicer said anyone being vetted for a highprofile position in the administration is going to have to sign a form rejecting, removing themselves from being a registered lobbyist if they are going to work in the trump administration. Said must provide a termination of will beying form if they are registered lobbyists. In addition they will be banned for five years once t
Right. Its very important to clarify also some more information that the government is offering here. In saying that many of these individuals that have been detained across the country, some major cities across the country, were individuals whose cases made their way through u. S. Courts and in many cases also in some other foreign courts and individuals who were convicted of major Violent Crimes. So the government quick to point out for example out of those 160 people, that were detained, in the california alone, some of which have already been deported, were individuals who had convictions for crimes like Drug Trafficking for example. There was an el salvadorian man who was a suspected member of the ruthless street gang ms13 and an australian individual who had been convicted of improprieties of a child. Thats a point that i think officials are making. As you mentioned a little while ago, the head of the department of Homeland Security stressing these kind of detention and removal o
Forward. And im looking forward it a great season. From Rockefeller Center in new york, this is politicsnation with al sharpton. Good morning. Im al sharpton. Donald trumps cabinet is filling up with the big job still open. Trump says he expects to name his secretary of state next week, so far hes leaned on military generals, millionaires and billionaires. One newspaper criticized me. Why cant they have people of modest means . Because i want people that made a fortune, because now theyre negotiating with you. Okay. It is no different than a great baseball play er or a great golfer. We want the people that are theyre so proud to do it. The picks are now a political flashpoint. Especially two recent ones. Here pick for labor secretary, a fast food ceo who is against raise the minimum wage and is nominee to run the epa is a Climate Change denier who is suing the agency. The move showed little sign of compromise and the Vice President elect says trump has a mandate. We truly do believe th