to transition to governance. what i said to him was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during electi elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country and gaining the trust even of those who didn t support him. that s a common theme now, that a familiar theme he is now making, president obama, about donald trump. it s one thing to cap paicampai. it s another thing to govern. that s why i m so excited to seat numb see the number people that donald trump is considering for positions in government. he s not just sticking with loyal it ses. he s going way beyond that to people, some whom he ran against, others who spoke out against his nomination, but i think it shows how broad-minded he is and willing to do these sorts of things. the president also gave a talk and talked about russia a little
long-range bombers including supersonic 22 backfire flew from a base in russian shah near the border of georgia. russia launched cruise missiles at raqqah shortly after midnight. vladimir putin ordered his commanders to establish contact with the french navy and it ses aircraft carrier, the charles de gaulle. putin ordered the general staff to develop a joint plan of action with the french in the sea and in the air, shepard? jennifer, practically speaking does this change anything for the united states and its strategy? not really. not according to the pentagon press secretary peter cooke who addressed reporters just moments ago. right now we are not cooperating with russia as you know. in this instance their most recent air strikes, they did give us advance notice through the memorandum of understanding that is in place. there continues to be frustration among senior u.s. military commanders the u.s. is not doing more. here s the retired air force
it looks more like a stalemate. independent caucuses with the democrats, many articles, saying that dozens of intelligence annual it ses say it was all made up. right, and that under investigation, and we re not getting a response out of the administration about those accusations, but what we do know is no matter how much they re doctors the data and analysis to try to make it look like we ve had some progress on the ground, what we are hearing today from the pentagon and other hearings dated back to june is the recruitment effort to build a ground force in iraq and syria to be coupled with the air campaign isn t working. the recruiting, the vetting, training and retaining is abysmal. the rebels in iraq, they saided 24,000 trained by this fall, and they only have somewhere in the ballpark of 5 or 6,000. they can t build the force we need to go after isis in rack
face. the principal dep toy jay carney, a grueling job. throw and a half years, he has been take something tough questions on the va scandal and men other issues, talker about how he has young kids, his wife, claire, an accomplish it journalist at abc news, wants to spend more time at home with the family, a little less time with me. i would ask if you guys gave him a bear hug. you re so close. we ll take him to lunch. it ses a very sayreal it s adversarial but here web site. tell me about his replacement. near the end, jay carney let him come up to the podium. josh ernest filled inch a kid from missouri and worked through the obama campaign. i decided to press him on, we have to get down to business
if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. . it ses about the most inaccessible spot that you could imagine on the face of the earth. australian prime minister tony abbot vowing not to give up the search even after four of his military planes failed to spot the flight wreckage off of the coast. crews are seventh set to go back out the the search zone in just a few hours to look for what they have called the best lead yet. and while they appear to be publicly hopeful despite the daunting circumstances, malaysian authorities seem not to be very open and honest when talking about the plane and the investigation into its disappearance. it s any wonder then that family