Everyone. Im jeff glor with a western edition of the broadcast. And president obama warned today americas latest incursion into iraq will not be brief. Airstrikes on isis and airdrops for the people they have trapped began yesterday. They will likely continue now for months. Tonight, late word of four u. S. Airstrikes, this time targeting isis armored personnel carriers. The isis militant are members of the sunni branch of islam, at war not just with iraqs shiite majority but also with other ethnic and religious minorities including kurds, christians and yazidis. Their ultimate goal is an Islamic State in the heart of the middle east. Holly williams is inside erbil tonight. Reporter american f a18 fighter jets are flying over iraq once again, this time targeting isis militants. The aim is to help kurdish soldiers, the only force on the ground in Northern Iraq still doing battle with the islamic extremists. The kurdish fighters retreated this week after isis seized more towns and captur
Party, they are still just a couple months away from nominating their president ial candidates. Youve got the Libertarian Party preparing to pick its candidate. That is happening this weekend. Thats right. Libertarians hoping that dissatisfaction with the Major Party Candidates could mean a real opportunity for them in november. The partys frontrunner gary johnson is polling at around 10 nationally, despite usually left off the president ial surveys and johnson argues that in order to compete he needs to be included in polling and the debates. The only chance of winning is to be in the president ial debates, to be in the president ial debates youve got to be in the polls. Look, just put us in the polls. I think that by putting us in the polls theyll be attention drawn to what it is that were saying, and you know what . If that happens, anythings possible. Talking about anything being possible. Phil mattingly, covering the Libertarian Convention for us in orlando, florida. Phil, we saw
Nastier. Bringing up questions about her husbands infidelities while sidestepping his own infideli infidelities. Bad news as the poll numbers dip after the first president ial debate. Take a look at the latest debate. Fox news poll, trailing by three points, you see johnson, 8 , stein at 4 . Just yesterday, trump went on a rampage attacking alicia machado. And trump supporter Newt Gingrich had this advice for the republican. I think what trump has got to understand, hes got to say ive got to be me or a new song, ive got to be president. Theyre not the same song. Hes got to become much more disciplined pop for a while there i thought he turned the corner. This last week has been frankly a lost week, a week which has hurt him which has shaken his supporters. And you cant tweet at 3 00 in the morning. Cnn contributor errol louis. I come to you and i think were going to have something substantial. Some policy to talk about. Then we wake up to all of this. So, lets just get right down to it
Also suspend the debt ceiling until july of 2021. Theres not going to be a lot of republicans who vote for. Democrats are going to carry it. Listen to this comment from mike johnson, republican congressman from louisiana. He chairs the Republican Study Committee which is the largest bloc of conservatives in the house. He says our nation is more than 22 trillion in debt and simply cannot afford reckless measures like this one. We would expect the House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy, web Steve Scalise to vote for it. But look at the lower tier members. We think theres going to be a lot of people jumping off. The reason they have two raise the debt ceiling is that congress is going to go on recess, the house specifically tomorrow. One of the reasons steve mnuchin, treasury secretary, was appealing to do with the debt ceiling hours that they are saying it they might hit it in august or september. I challenged Kevin Mccarthy this morning about the tax bill because thats one of the reasons
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