character, came to work, sat down and made the recommendation for the fbi to be able to do its job that it would need new leadership. he brought that recommendation to the president, and the attorney general concurreded with that recommendation, and i personally am grateful that we have a president who is willing to provide the kind of decisive and strong leadership to take the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove an fbi director who had lost the confidence of the american people. that being said, let me be very clear, we have some great men and women who serve in the federal bureau of investigation every day. they make enormous sacrifices for the people of this country and i am very confident that the president will go through a process and choose an individual who will lead the fbi not only back to credibility to restore the trust and confidence of the american people and lead the fbi
sergey lavrov talking at the russian embassy. on the whole territory of the syrian republic and this step will help us to come to the political solution on the basis of the resolution of the united nations security council. we agreed to continue work into gaza whereas the united states is present as observer and also in the framework of the geneva process, it should be renewed. i believe that all of the participants of those talks were constructive and put in the opposition groups and they also discussed the promise with the international immunity basis and
those are what i would call informal advisers, but when you are named by the candidate as an adviser, that s more than just informal. carter page was a part of the trump campaign and that s a big deal. when it comes to this fisa warrant, though, it was over the summer that this started with the trump campaign, and if it is as clear cut as you kind of seem to believe, there have been no charges against carter page. i mean, do you leave open the possibility that there is nothing there that he did nothing wrong? i mean, an investigation doesn t necessarily mean that they re going to find a crime. well, yes, but in order to have a in order to achieve a fisa warrant or to obtain a fisa warrant you have to demonstrate a lot of probable cause and a lot of evidence. it s not easy, and i ve been through it before, and you sort of receive feedback as you go through the process about whether it s likely to be approved or not and you can withdraw it if it doesn t look likely to be approved a
obligations. that means giving investigators who are already mandated through existing mechanisms full access to the bases where the regime launched the chemical weapons attacks and access to anyone who might have been involved. russia talks about its commitment to a political solution. they must commit to the geneva talks. now is the time russia needs to show the world whether they genuinely want to be a part of the political process. we need to see a real cease-fire on the ground. we need to see a credible, political process through which syrians can chart their future. we need to see russia choose to side with the civilized world over an assad government that brutally terrorizes its own people. the united states is ready to do our part. russia, too, needs to do its part. getting serious about peace also means we have to be honest about iran s role in syria.
the ground. this council s relevance takes action to condemn those responsible for violence and hold them accountable for defying this council s demand. this council should not just say it s for a political solution, but actively pressure the parties to prove it. that means adopting resolutions that say what we mean. resolutions that we are all willing to uphold. so what happens next in syria depends on what all parties choose to do. for our part, the united states will continue to use influence over any party to push for peace. we will encourage our allies to use their influence on any and all opposition groups, too. we will not support a process that gives cover to assad while he stalls for time. and his forces slaughter the syrian people. and as we showed last week, we will not stand for continued use