Did Allyson Felix take gold in the womens 400meter final . You cannot believe how close this was. What a race. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im george howell. It is tuesday, august 16th. 5 01 on the east coast. Donald trump hoping to improve his campaign after giving a speech explaining his plan to take on and defeat isis. Trump went on promising a global clash against islamic terror. He compared it to the cold war. He called for the testing of the values of wouldbe immigrants. Trump vowed to keep Guantanamo Bay open. He also slammed Hillary Clinton and president obama. This time without calling them the quote founders of isis. Trump blamed the terror groups rise on the policy decisions. We cannot let this evil continue. Nor can we let the hateful ideology of radical islam. Oppression of gays and women and children. Be allowed to spread within our countries. Any country which shares this goal will be our ally. We cannot always choose our friends, but we can
John, independents. Strategists on both sides says this will be a base election, turning your base out. Independents cannot be ignored. Take a look at this. Her bounce with independents, 28 before the Democratic Convention, 37 after the Democratic Convention. That bounce is even bigger among independents than it was overall for Hillary Clinton. She is now besting donald trump by four points, 37 to 33 among independents. Then of course theres the issue of party unity. This was one of the major goals of the Democratic Convention. And it seems to be a successful part of the convention for Hillary Clinton. Take a look. Democrats say 44 of them say theyre united. 40 say theyre divided but will unit come november. Only 14 say they are divided and will not unit by november. You remember Bernie Sanders going to the Convention Floor helping deliver the nomination to Hillary Clinton. This is a different story among republicans. Take a look. Not as successful in the unification effort. 20 , only
Should also mention it comes against drum beats of statements from pompeo and others that suggest the opposite. When asked today whether the fbi is investigating the apparent murder of an american resident who worked across the potomac from the white house for the Washington Post he underscored khashoggi was saudi and not an american citizen. Secretary pompeo who is back from that meeting in riyadh had this to say when asked if saudi officials told him whether khashoggi is dead or alive. I dont want to talk about any of the facts. They didnt bawant to either. They want the opportunity to complete this investigation in a thorough way. So just a few hours ago secretary pompeo suggested he is okay with a factfree factfinding visit, alleged factfinding visit. He is okay with a country suspected of detaining, torturing, truging and dismembering a high profile american resident investigating self. Combine that with the president s mention how important an ally and arms buyer saudi arabia is
and you got a lot of people, a big country, a lot of people. and in those prisons and those camps you have a lot of people. and some really bad things happened to otto. he tells me he didn t know about it. otto warmbier was arrested in north korea. he returned to the u.s. in a koe moe. he died days later. he was 22 years old. his parents called his death murder. back with us again tonight to talk about all of this, nick kristof welcome, thank you for coming back. a dual question, is there any chance in hell didn t know about otto warmbier when he was in their possession and how do you process the way this summit ended? so look otto warmbier was taken as a hostage, he wasn t taken because he had taken this poster, he was taken as a hostage and that is a decision that kim jong-un was clearly involved in.
north korea. he returned to the u.s. in a koe moe. he died days later. he was 22 years old. his parents called his death murder. back with us again tonight to talk about all of this, nick kristof welcome, thank you for coming back. a dual question, is there any chance in hell didn t know about otto warmbier when he was in their possession and how do you process the way this summit ended? so look otto warmbier was taken as a hostage, he wasn t taken because he had taken this poster, he was taken as a hostage and that is a decision that kim jong-un was clearly involved in. the nature of his death i think is more complicated. i think we don t know how that happened and kim jong-un may not have been intentional. but he was absolutely ksh kim jong-un knew he was being sentenced to 15 years, that he