Disclosure explain my cameo in the 1996 clinton fundraising scandals. In 1997 republicans were investigating and Fred Thompson had the committee and i got a call monday from an Investigative Reporter at the boston globe who also happen to be a friend of mine who said i want to know why you attended one of the clinton fundraising coffees and why didnt disclose that to your readers at the wall street journal. I said, what are you talking about . Of course i didnt go to the clinton fundraising coffee, and he says, well, i think a document that says you did. It turned out later that what happened was the white house databases got kind of screwed up because theres a john harwood who worked for the wall street journal, and there was a john harwood who was a speaker the house in rhode island who later went to prison for corruption. And these things get merged i actually know that john harwood. And these things get merged, so he wrote in the paper the next day that i denied having attended alt
Government, during the arab spring of 2011. The spark came in the Southern City of daraa, where Security Forces beat a group of teenage boys. Their crime scrawling anti assad slogans on their school wall. From there, the protests spread, the regime cracked down violently, and fighting erupted. Its since grown into a full blown civil war, with the rebels seizing large chunks of territory. In all, more than 70,000 syrians have died. Russia its warships seen today docking in beirut before moving on to syria continues to supply arms to the syrian military. Other nations have called on assad to step down, but been reluctant to intercede. Today in brussels the European Union rejected a push to lift its embargo on arms to the rebels, over the objections of france and britain. Assad is still in place, he is still being strongly supplied and strengthened by others and we need to put pressure on to bring about the transition that is necessary for the syrian people, necessary for the stability of