Starr at the pentagon. Barbara, were talking about 2,800 u. S. Troops en route now to the middle east. What do we know about where theyre coming from . Well, these are troops coming from ft. Bragg, north carolina. The orders had already been issued, it was all expected. But now today the first of those troops getting on planes, making their way to kuwait, on standby there if iran retaliates, something the pentagon obviously very concerned about. President trumps top military advisor, general mark milley, not ruling out a possible retaliatory attack from iran. When compelling intelligence in recent days showed Qasem Soleimani planned to attack u. S. Targets in the middle east, the Trump Administration made the decision to kill him, according to milley. The u. S. Decided to act because of the size, scale and scope of the planning by soleimani he said. Is there a risk now to u. S. Safety in the region . Damn right there is risk, milley told reporters, but to deal with that risk, the u. S.
House votes to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol
AP
By Alex Rogers, CNN
The House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice.
The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans voted with 218 Democrats in support of the bill.
The House passed a similar resolution last year on a bipartisan basis but it stalled after Republicans in the Senate argued that the states should decide which statues they’d like to display in the Capitol. The legislation has a better chance to pass now that Democrats hold the Senate majority.
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