Washington post education reporter taylor reese shapiro. Nice to see you. Good evening, greta. How are you . Very well. Is it that it is shoddy journalism or that the woman who claimed to have been raped made it up . Which is it . All i can do is report on my own experience reporting. It was natural for my editors to send me down here to sort of check things out. As i have been down here and reporting it, became clear to me that, you know, there were obviously some areas where there were some inconsistencies which we wrote about today. The incon sis ten inconsistencies are what . Time of day or whatever but significant inconsistencies . The first and probably most significant detail which sort of begins to call into question many of the other facts, related in the allegations are the date. I spoke to jackie last night. She was adamant that the alleged attack occurred on september 28th, 2012. Today the fraternity came out and said publicly that, in fact, there were no parties at all on
All this as a new cnn poll reveals a majority of americans disapprove of the president s handling of terrorism. Its important to point out these poll numbers are taken before the president s address. Lets bring in senior washington correspondent joe johns for more on this. Good morning. It was a rather short address from the oval office, from the president of the United States, confirming that those attacks out in San Bernardino were, in fact, the acts of terrorists. He did not offer any new policy shifts to try to address the overall issue, which is really just fired up his critics, saying the administration isnt doing enough. The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. Reporter president obama speaking passionately to millions in a Rare Oval Office address late sunday. Strongly condemning isis and calling wednesdays mass shooting in San Bernardino a terrorist attack. It is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization. This was an act of ter
We cant let them in. Its still an active scene. And until its safe in there, we cant let anybody in. Were getting all the people and victims out of there, so if theyre not out in the near future, they will be. Were doing the best we can. And well get everybody, you know, united and hopefully everybody can make phone calls and know that their loved ones are okay. We have seen federal Law Enforcement racing down to freeway to get to this spot. What sort of assistance have you asked for from the federal government . I dont think weve specifically asked for anybodys assistance. The way Law Enforcement works whenever we need help esh everybody with a radio comes in to assist. I think thats whats happened here today. Hope to get everybody back. What can you tell us about the suspects . That was just a witness. I dont know if it was one or multiple, thats just what i was given. In the last few minutes we saw a line of Law Enforcement racing out of the area lights and sirens going. Any indicat
The president and Kellyanne Conway keep saying that this is about restoring confidence in the fbi. Does the firing of the fbi director whos leading the investigation into the white house, the firing of him by that white house, does that restore confidence . Not at all. And in fact, the way the firing was done was particularly striking. Director comey is a respected career Law Enforcement official, a Public Servant, and he was fired essentially through the press. He found out that he had been fired while he was speaking to fbi personnel in los angeles and there were press reports that a letter had been delivered to the fbi headquarters. Thats about as brazen and aggressive a way as you can fire somebody. And as you just referenced in the previous segment here, anderson, President Trumps letter saying you have told me three times im not under investigation just seems to protest too much the idea that there is nothing going on here other than a sort of clearing the decks. And ill remind y
Going places. This guy is the face of the new conservative movement. And now youre leaving. Right. And not entirelily voluntarily. Yeah. Do you wake up in the morning ever and say what happened. Yes, i do. You posted this video in 2016 of elephants charging your jeep. And it strikes me thats sort of a metaphor here. Like the Republican Party is not the Republican Party that you recognize. No, its not. I have a carved ryan ohs ris in may office. Republican in name only. I guess i just embraced. You wrote this book about that called conscientious of a conservative. I wrote somewhere you didnt tell the staff you were working tennessee on it. Right. But its a blisters indictment of President Trump and trumpism and the direction of the party. Its not just indictment of trump and trumpism but we were headed this direction longing a. We stopped being the party of limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility. And drifted off to fight the culture wars. Thats when you always k