In the middle east was a catastrophic mistake but not who did what in the invasion of iraq and how bad that was but a long held american policy of arming, funding, and training sunni, jihaddist militants that goes back to the decision in the Carter Administration in 979 to arm, train and fund the knew hauge make Immediate Fund the mahajmadine and get them in the quagmire we had in vietnam and though it had shortterm gains in getting the soviets out of afghanistan, that policy has been zast us for the United States and it goes to the precursor elements in al qaeda and after the invasion in iraq, as we were desperate to try to bring in these sunni groups that were not accepting this upending of the political order we had arranged engineered in iraq with the invasion, desperate to corrupt some of the sunni elements, the surge looked at in washington think an unmitigated success took us right back to that policy and entailed beyond sending 30,000 troops to the baghdad area, it entailed arm
Yesterday, the Prime Minister did something that was unthinkable back in the dark ages when i was president of the United States. He sent out a tweet and the tweet reminded us of a simple fact. It was israels first day without shimon peres. For more than 70 of his 93 years. One way or the other, in and out of government, he was a public servant. I was honored to sha almost 25 of those years with him. First in our common efforts with Prime Minister rabin, a blessed memory to forge a peace between israel and palestinians. Then just as his friends. Someone who listened to, learned from and laughed with him and always was in awe of his endless capacity to move beyond even the most crushing setbacks in order to seize the possibilities of each new day. I am honored the family asked me to tell you what he meant to someone who is not a citizen of this country i love so much. But who was nevertheless blessed and inspired. I think in many ways is representative of millions more. He touched thoug
Im alison kosik. Im john berman. It is friday, september 30th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. There are questions about Donald Trumps foundation. The report that the Trump Foundation never required a certificate in new york to solicit money from the public. This despite the foundation claiming to raise 1. 7 million in donations just for veterans groups this year alone. The key word in determining if the foundation broke the law was solicit. For years, trump was the foundations only donor. He has not given the foundation a dime since 2008. Other donors have given more 3. 4 million. The reporter that broke the story in the post told Anderson Cooper that not registering, trump may be avoiding a damaging audit. He had to register every year and have the audit come through the box. I ask the question, did Donald Trumps foundation benefit donald trump . We found a few allegations that it happened over the years. If it had gone through audits, it would be founded earlier. And the attorney general is