Major funding for religion and ethics newsweekly is provided by the lilly endowment, a private Family Foundation, dedicated to the founders interest in religion, Community Development and education. Additional funding also provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. And by these funders. Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. There was a surge in militant violence this week threatening the Iraqi Government and state. Christians were among the estimated 500,000 people who fled the countrys secondlargest city, mosul, after it was seized by Sunni Islamist militants. The u. N. Condemned the attacks and said the humanitarian situation in mosul was worsening by the moment. Here at home, the National Debate over gun control rages on after an Oregon High School shooting that left two dead earlier this week. It is one of several recent highprofile shootings. Last week a gunman opened fir
Its projections. Were robertsoning the corner rounding the corner on the virus. He is reported to have called them suckers and losers. Suckers for serving and losers for dying. The president should humbly apologize. What you see a lack of understanding about why soldiers serve. The sun is up. Looks like the crowd are too there in atlanta. We are so grateful youre up as well. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate your company as always and want to wish you a good morning on this saturday. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for Victor Blackwell. Well start with breaking news right now. Another night of violent protests here in the u. S. This time rochester, new york. After the release of video camera video showing the arrest of daniel prude a black man pinned to the ground by police and later died. Masked protesters heard shouting black lives matter as they peacefully marched through downtown streets last night. The demonstrations turned violent as the night wore on with some protes
When we look at this, what are the kind of things that general allen can do in effect to start to get the tribes to look at this differently, to say, look, our interests are more aligned with this coalition thats being put together than with this group isis. Well, at the National Level i think he will, along with our diplomats, encourage the new Iraqi Government to answer some grievances that both the sunnis and kurds have had for years, actually, since 2004. I think theres some indication that theres reason to believe that could occur. The sunni tribes in anabr. The maliki government was actually, as you might expect them to be, very much against the idea of a National Guard in a al anbar. I think this government may be more open to it. I think that will be one of the lines of effort. Is this something this is for either of you that we can get done in iraq if we dont get buyin from the sunnis . As i said in an earlier question, senator, every campaign makes assumptions. If those supgs
Aggression. That is how they present themselves. We understand that that is im sorry, i was going to Say Something that isnt appropriate in a public hear, but that isnt true. Thats their message. When we show up with 150,000 troops in iraq or afghanistan, it is effective to a point, but also reinforce that is message. That is why the vote we took in the house yesterday and training and equip mission is critical. To win this fight, we have got to final pardners, muslim partners, in the case of isil preferably sunni partners to fight them. We have got to convince the people in this region that they need to fight this evil for their own ache. We were successful in the an bar awakening precisely because that is what we did. We had troops there but went in and worked with the sunni tribes in the anbar region and they took the fight. It was a bit frustrating yesterday to listen to people who were concerned about it, didnt want to do the train and equip, worried about the u. S. Military to ge
Recommended they not be used . I read reports of that, sir. Okay. You were once an rso, correct . Yes, sir. In your distinguished career, do you ever remember recommending that a service not be used . That being hired over your protest or yourar recommendation . Not in my experience, sir. Okay. But you would have at some point recommended somebody or maybe not recommended anybody . Was it your job to look at the performance of these people tht you were w aware of . When when we have barredded contracts. When we find the contractor is not performing we have variety of ways to deduct money and ultimately find theyre not performing. If theyre found to be lacking and not performing contract they can be terminated. They can be barred if that goes that far. You mentioned. February 17th, martyrs brigade i believe what it was called. We were told that was the host company security. Is that true or not . I, i would hesitate to call that host Country Security, sir. At best it probably had sop co