the ultimate responsibility of the a knack douma lies at the feet of vladimar putin. putin promised the world they would guarantee the elimination of chemical weapon. he reached out playing bad cop and good cop. and said maybe we can have a good relationship, maybe not. but the behavior of iran and in particular russia that needs to change. here again, the president. to iran and to russia, what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men and women and children. the nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. and they will promote rogue
they don t want to be going back in six months to a year to clean up a new version of isis an offchute of al qaeda inside syria. also the u.s. allies and israel and jordan are still saying, please keep some troop presence on the ground because that maintains a physical presence that russian backed syrian forces and riranian backed forcs will respect and have to stay away from. when you see that battle ground, that leaves the former u.s. kurdish allies there to go it alone. part of the head scratching nature of all of this is the mixed messages that we re seeing from this administration. let s listen to u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley who came down hard on syria s use of chemical weapons just moments ago. the assad regime keeps dropping chlorine bombs on innocent men and women and children. our lack of action has
today. in beaumont where they got 26 inches of rain on tuesday, they ve lost the primary and secondary water supply. the u.s. military is now sending warships and more aircraft to assist with those rescue efforts. worst fears were confirmed yesterday for six family members trying to outrun the flood waters. the u.s. navy and air force are staging a massive rescue operation, flying around the clock search missions and plucking men and women and children. it was like waving in the middle of the street. we were like so happy, like god handed us our prayers. we re blessed and thankful. working with a state partner could potentially provide mueller with additional leverage to get manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into trump s campaign. coordinating with another guy with subpoena power, another guy who is fearless and not afraid of donald trump and guy who can bring charges that the president can t pardon for. financial times reports that mueller interviewed
shocking comments on twitter. things are not going to change. congresswoman you said something about general kelly that was a bit controversial. i want to give an opportunity for everybody to discuss it and for you to defend it. by putting general john kelly in charge, president trump is militarizing the white house and putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist. first of all, there are those who say people who served in the military should be able to integrate back into society. second of all, why is he perhaps most importantly, why do you think he s an extremist? sure. let me first say, i come from a military family. my dad served in world war ii, in korea. and so i respect and honor the military and recognize the sacrifices that all of our military men and women make as well as general kelly and his history and his sacrifices. what i m talking about is his tenure as homeland security secretary and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, depo
tenure as homeland security secretary and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, deportation of innocent men and women and children, breaking up families, promoting a muslim ban, promoting a wall between the united states and mexico. those are extreme policies. and so this is very troublesome to me, to have this kind of power now centralized in the white house because these are very serious matters and these are extreme policies. but believe you me, as it relates to his service in the military, again, coming from a military family, i recognize and honor the servicemen and women of our country. original trump backers gave reen priebus a chance because he really earned it on the campaign trail. he was a real asset to the president. but we ve had six months of this and we re all very hopeful now, those of us who backed trump from the very beginning, that general kelly can do a better job of marshaling the white house, the cabinet members and the president himself in