Incoming missile, a high ranking iranian official wasuick qo t partially to blame. Now iranians are apingly with their own government and the over the role of u. S. Forces in iraq we will talk to secretary of defense mark esper. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy. We also will ask him about the intelligence behind the killing of soleimani, the administrations handling of the crisis is causing frustration even among some republicans loyal to the president. I find this insulting and demeaning. Pauley republican mike lee, democrats tim kaine and adam schiff will all be here. Plus former secretary of state john kerry weighs in on iran and why he is supporting joe biden. And a special behind the scenes report from our liz palmer, her and her team spent the multis you week in nation. Bre good mning. And bin this morning with the secretary of defense mark esper. Good morning to you, mr. Secretary, good to have youn witnessed antigovernment protests, chants against the
Immediately. Is that the case can you comment on that . Didnt quite characterize the conversation correctly, but to the larger more important point, we are happy to continue the conversation with the iraq is about what the right structure is weve been there to perform a Training Mission to help the Iraqi Security forces be successful and to continue the campaign against isis. Were going to continue that mission, but as times change and we get to a place where we can deliver what i believe and the president believes is a right structure with fewer resources dedicated to that mission, we will do so we also have today a nato team thats here at the state Department Working to develop a plan which will get burden sharing right in region as well so we can continue the Important Missions to protect and defend and keep the American People safe while reducing our cost, our resources and burden and the risk to our soldiers and sailors in the region. Here today at the podium you said the imminent
Mr. Mnuchin against irans largest steel and iron manufacturers, set three entities and a vessel involved in the transfer of products. As a result of these actions, we will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian Regime and we will continue our enforcement of other entities. Third, we are taking action against eight Senior Iranian officials who advanced the regimes destabilizing activity and were involved in tuesdays Ballistic Missile strike. Secretary pompeo will comment more on this. Todays sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the Iranian Regimes global terrorist activities. The president has been very clear. We will continue to apply economic sanctions until iran stops its terrorist activities and commit that it will never have nuclear weapons. I now turn it over to secretary ompeo. Mr. Pompeo thank you, steven. Good morning, everyone. Today President Trump is delivering on the pledge that he made, the day after iran attacked American Forces in iraq, there will
Growth. Late on the program, ill be asking larry kudlow why is this happening in a fullyemployed economy. Thats jobs and now the markets. Here it comes, 29,000, the dow may hit that mark today. Yes, the astonishing market rally has taken us up 11,000 points on the dow, since the election, of donald j. Trump and the value of American Business has gone up 12. 8 trillion since he was elected. A few minutes from now the market opens and well see the dow go up just a little bit more , maybe 20 points up, s p up maybe 6 and a 30 point gain for the nasdac composite. One more story and its dramatic satellite and intelligence reports show the plane that crashed into iran was taken down by a missile. It was not mechanical failure or engine trouble. The plane was shot down. Canadas trudeau says it may have been done accidentally. 63 canadians were on board. Varney company, the friday edition, is about to begin. President trump when im thrilled to hold the first rally of 2020 right here, in the gr
Afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Could host to much of the events for today at 4. The 19 year old british woman convicted of lying about being raped birminghams Commonwealth Games. I will explain later. And darren with in cyprus is allowed to fly back to the uk after receiving a 4 month the weather. A lot of interest in suspended sentence. The foreign secretary welcomes the news. We will be following up on the the weather. A lot of interest in the weather. A lot of interest in issues in relation to the case. The weather in the uk. Not least because his so mild but it is also i spoke to the Cypriot Foreign windy in some parts of the uk. We minister about that. Will look at that later. Scores of people are killed thanks darren. In a stampede, as iranians flock also coming up. To the funeral of qasem suleimani, killed by the us. Joker leads the way in this years bafta film nominations but theres criticism of the lack a teenager admits killing of diversity with only white newlywed pc Andrew