Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been planning and why he was killed. Senator graham said he was ready to unleash holy hell on our embassy. Any doubt in your mind what he was up to . Hes been doing this for decades, david, and he has as you pointed out quite a reputation of killing certainly training shia militia to kill u. S. Forces there as well as to recruit for, you know, bashar all assad in syria. Alassad in syria. He equips to attack the saudis and hezbollah to attack the israelis. Hes a bad character. If there was evidence of a
New year new protests for hong kong after a massive turnout for 20 twentieths 1st rally turns violent with riot police the lloyd to disperse protesters. And i thanks for joining us live at r. T. International for the weekly rundown of top headlines are. Next for you what. Other week and the year got off to a troubling start with tensions skyrocketing over the middle east following the u. S. Assassination of irans most Senior Commander these are some live pictures we can bring in our from his same sort of manis funeral procession his body has arrived in iran in the southwestern city of its been greeted by throngs of mourners thousands of people turning out of the country seeing massive. Support rallies on saturday as well many people turn out in the iraq the capital baghdad or the generals funeral procession the rallies of course have been ongoing since fridays deadly u. S. Air strike on Baghdad International airport iraq swiftly vowed to avenge the iraqi youre right in command is that
Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been planning and why he was killed. Senator graham said he was ready to unleash holy hell on our embassy. Any doubt in your mind what he was up to . Hes been doing this for decades, david, and he has as you pointed out quite a reputation of killing certainly training shia militia to kill u. S. Forces there as well as to recruit for, you know, bashar all assad in syria. Alassad in syria. He equips to attack the saudis and hezbollah to attack the israelis. Hes a bad character. If there was evidence of a
He spoke to president zelensky of ukraine by telephone, President Trump had the upper hand. Ukraine had been invited by russia. Zelensky had only recently been elected. He badly needed our help. He needed it in the form of military aid, already appropriated by congress, because of our National Security interest in ukraine. And he needed help in the form of an oval office meeting, so he could show the world that the United States stands with him against russian aggression. President trump should have focused on americas National Security, and on the interest of the American People on that call. Instead, he completely ignored them in order to push his own personal political interests. President trump asked for a favor. He wanted ukraine to announce to bogus investigations, one into former Vice President biden, his leading opponent in the 2020 election, and another, to advance a Conspiracy Theory that ukraine, and not russia, attacked our elections in 2016. These were not legitimate reque
A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th