Leaders, including chief executive of g. E. , warping about the potential warning about the potential economic consequences of the bill. You had letters from the director of the c. I. A. , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the secretary of defense and the commander of chief all warning about the potential impact of the bill. Aum of that communication was made public before Congress Cast the first vote to put this bill into law. Yesterday. So the hard to take at face value the suggestion suggs that somehow they were unaware suggestion that somehow they were unaware of the consequences of their vote. Even if they were, whats true in Elementary School is true in the United States congress. Ignorance is not an excuse. Particularly when it comes to our National Security and the safety and security of our diplomats and our Service Members. Ill also say that its a little hard to take that suggestion seriously when the arguments that are being made in this letter and in the public sta
Other talking past each other. Talking about policies they dont share. Their view of syria quite different. Tell me how you read that and how Strong Language was from secretary tillerson. When the two men sat across the frabl each other and Rex Tillerson sat there and listened to sergeier lavrov talk about how bad the u. S. Was. He started by saying, its been a long day. Thats one of the only things they could agree with. He spent two hours with him and two hours with Vladimir Putin, a meeting that we thought might not take place at all. But i think mostly they agreed how bad their relationship was. As lavrov said, it is uneasy. Rex tillerson saying the current state at a low level of trust. We cant let this continue. We need put an end to this steady degradation. Then they went into everything they disagreed about. They clearly completely diametrically disagree on the chemical weapons. And also about assad. They discussed assad at th. Mr. Tillerson said assad should leave power in an
we will continue to work our international partners to put an end to any use of chemical weapons, and to seek justice for all the victims. we will gather in the haig hague tomorrow to discuss how best to discuss how best, to establish who was responsible and paved the way to held to culprits to account. the catastrophe in syria is not the way it has to be. yesterday foreign ministers from the g-7 and key regional countries came together in italy to discuss how to move forward from last week s tragedy. they gave strong support to secretary tillerson s visit today to discuss how russia could work the international community to end the tragedy of the war in syria. russia has the sort of influence over the regime that could bring to an end the regime s use of