Than two years. Its happening at the United Nations general assembly. To say these two leaders have had icy relations is honestly putting it gently. The tension has just escalated with russia announcing this new intelligence sharing agreement with iraq, iran and syria. Here was Vladimir Putin speaking last night on 60 minutes. Translator we support the legitimate government of syria and its my deep belief that any actions to the contrary in order to destroy the legitimate government will create a situation which you can witness now in the other countries of the region or in other regions. When president obama took to the podium this morning, he didnt mince words. Heres what he had to say about russia propping up Bashar Al Assad. We should support tyrants like Bashar Al Assad because the alternative is surely worse according to them. The United States is prepared to work with any nation, including russia and iran, to resolve the confli conflict. But we must recognize there cannot be aft
Theres potential for significant flooding there. Damage assessments are just coming in from south florida. They will continue as the storm passes each county. I have been reaching out to people in each county as it passes. All right. The hurricane still a category 3 storm, already slamming into places like Daytona Beach. Powerful winds littering the streets with debris. So far, millions have been ordered to evacuate. About 600,000 people without power right now. Many in the southeastern part of the United States now bracing for more. Officials warning that some communities could be uninhabitable for months at a time. I want to take you back out to jacksonville and get this. Jacksonville has not been under a hurricane warning in 17 years until now, so i would imagine, chris, people are bracing for the worst . Reporter i hope so. I mean, thats what the caution is all about, whether or not people are heeding these warnings or deciding to play a game where they say well, it doesnt seem tha
And Important News about women and a certain type cancer. Good evening. President trump taking swift action today at the white house. Signing several orders involving federal hiring and trade. These were promises made during the campaign. Tonight, what he signed and what it means. And after that contentious moment over the weekend, the White House Press secretary presenting images of the crowd side by side, furious with media reports, but then called out himself on the facts. Today, he emerged again. No pictures with him this time, and what he is saying now. Abcs chief white house correspondent, Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter today in the oval office, President Trump making good on his Campaign Promise to pull out of a major trade deal with asia, the transpacific partnership. Great thing for the American Worker what we just did. Reporter and in a meeting with business leaders, trump warned of a big new tax if any of them move jobs out of country. So a company that wants to fire
Staff in russia by 755 people. And on the day that trump signed the legislation, Dmitry Medvedev went on a tweet storm saying the Trump Administration has shown its total weakness handing over executive power to congress in the most humiliating way. That was five days ago. And we have been looking to see how the transportation would react to this latest move from russia and until today the response had been space basically silence not even a twitter clapback. There has been no response from the administration until today when following a weekend meeting with sergey lavrov, secretary of state Rex Tillerson announced the next u. S. Steps. I told the foreign minister that we had not made a decision regarding how we will respond to russias request to remove u. S. Diplomatic personnel. We had i asked several clarifying questions to ensure i understood kind of their thinking behind that diplomatic note we received but told him we would respond by september 1st. That is Rex Tillerson saying t
Donald trump signed a russians sanctions bill into law. Unlike other pieces of legislation, there was no elaborate signing ceremony. The president signed the sanctions legislation, which was passed overwhelmingly by congress in private, out of the public eye. Prior to the signing russian president Vladimir Putin announced that russia would retaliate for the sanctions by ordering the u. S. To cut its staff in russia by 175 people. And on the day that trump signed the legislation, the Prime Minister went on a tweet storm including this, quote, the Trump Administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive pow tore congress in the most humiliating way. That was five days ago and we were looking at how the administration would react to this latest move from russia and until today the response had been basically today. Not even a patented donald trump twitter. In fact theres been no response from the administration at all, that is until today. When following a weekend meeti