Its high noon here in the east. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New today, the uk says its warplanes have taken off for the countrys First Combat Mission against isis. Its just one day after parliament approved air strikes targeting isis in iraq. Its happenings a u. S. Warplanes hit a syrian town near the turkish border. Kelly joins us. How big a part is the uk playing in the fighting . Reporter so far its limited. Six tornado jets will be going up today. So far two have taken off from a base in cyprus. Theyve returned from that mission. They went along with a fueling plane. Were not yet sure what that mission was about, whether they performed any air strikes, whether they launched any missile strikes over iraq. Were still waiting to hear from the Defense Department on that. They have been performing surveillance and Reconnaissance Missions over iraq over the past six weeks. Its only after yesterdays vote in parliament when they were actually Going Forward with air strikes, alex .
Counterprotestors. Mollie, what does it look like now . Both of the rallies have what happened up. There still a big Police Presence here. We are standing where the rally took place and still a lot of police gathered around. The big trucks blocking and again to the common itself are still in place, Boston Police said they were going to be ready for this and they were. Over 500 Law Enforcement officers were out in force today. The large trucks, of course, passing blockage of any vehicle attack. Thats something that boston has done and other events as well, the Boston Marathon bombing and thats something the officers were prepared for as well. As the free speech rally ended today, witnesses tell me they were brought out by Boston Police and assisted in getting through the huge counterprotests and taken away as counterprotestors gathered around. Really an amazing sight today to see the two groups, free speech rally was far, far smaller than the enormous counterprotests that came here to b
Wednesdays sitdown with Democratic Leaders Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi follows an agreement last week to increase the debt limit and finance the government until mid december. Is either deal good for republicans and will the bipartisanship i extended tax reform create less ask dan henninger, and Jillian Melchior and jason riley. Jason, what to make of this bipartisan how long will this last week we will see. Who knows . Even with the deal on the immigrants. On the daca, socalled dreamers. We are getting different messages depending on who you are talking to. Donald trump says we are not as close as nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer but we are close. But we will see. I think in terms of immigration, they should make a deal. I think these dreamers are very popular. Much more popular than the president frankly. But also, the restriction, the immigration restrictions in the Publican Party do not represent the rePublican Party good let alone the country when it comes to dealing with people
Wednesdays sitdown with Democratic Leaders Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi follows an agreement last week to increase the debt limit and finance the government until mid december. Is either deal good for republicans and will the bipartisanship i extended tax reform create less ask dan henninger, and Jillian Melchior and jason riley. Jason, what to make of this bipartisan how long will this last week we will see. Who knows . Even with the deal on the immigrants. On the daca, socalled dreamers. We are getting different messages depending on who you are talking to. Donald trump says we are not as close as nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer but we are close. But we will see. I think in terms of immigration, they should make a deal. I think these dreamers are very popular. Much more popular than the president frankly. But also, the restriction, the immigration restrictions in the Publican Party do not represent the rePublican Party good let alone the country when it comes to dealing with people
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