Years teens of thousands of people have lost their lives and its cost us hundreds of millions to a country country under any circumstances always delivers its responsibilities as allies but despite this our allies are saying one thing to our face and doing another thing behind our back and this is undeniably clear now despite all this turkeys attitude as always with peace and happiness turkeys foreign minister never kept assad who has briefed parliament on turkeys offensive in syria he says turkey is considering ways to send captured foreign i saw fighters back to their countries of origin their arms to. The eiffel criminals who were imprisoned we are never going to allow them to organize again but we think the best solution is for them to go back to the country that they come from but if they dont accept that we will keep them in present although were not going to be responsible for all the ice of criminals that have been released by the white p. G. And p. K. K. Last minute breaks the
A port towns nearby and the northern hama countryside to fall into Government Forces rebel fighters would have risked being besieged if they didnt move further north but for the Syrian Government the big prize was getting control of conscious that will give it access to the m 5 its an important economic highway that crosses the country in the heart or has this from beirut. A major blow to the opposition they have lost significant ground what we understand is that rebel forces have withdrawn from the strategic town of houla and in southern the town was close to collapse saying no rebels have been also forced to withdraw from towns further south in the northern countryside because losing. Would mean they would be besieged in northern how much so the Syrian Government and its allies taking control really of a large chunk of territory in the past 2 weeks weve seen the Syrian Government and its allies advance theyve taken more ground than they have in the past 3 months its not clear why wha
That will take many months. Here is more about the to build a efforts wall at the u. S. Southern border. Coversnergy artillery Anna Giaritelli has spent a lot of time on the u. S. Mexico border and we look at her recent piece, construction or lack thereof of border wall funding. A single mileuilt of border fence after 30 months in office. The Supreme Court will let president let the president do just that, accessing pentagon funds for 2. 5 billion for those funds. You have been on the border and you looked at this. Why hasnt the new areas of fencing been installed why havent knew border walls been built . Guest its a combination of factors. The first two years President Trump was in office, he had republicans in the house and senate, so there was no excuse not to move on this. It also comes down to how they plan during the transition, and during the end of the election, they got about 340 million of funding for 40 miles of wall in got, and in 2018, they 1. 37 billion for far more. The
Is 202 hat line 7488001. We also welcome your comments on twitter. Tweet us cspanwj. Post your comments on facebook. We are talking about the federal Death Penalty being reinstated by the department of justice effective as of thursday. The executions set to begin in december of this year. The Justice Department plans to restart Capital Punishment after long hiatus. The attorney general william barr ordered the euro of presence to schedule executions for five inmates on death row. Each was convicted of murdering children among others. Owe it to the victims and their families to carry out the sentence imposed by our Justice System. They write that by diving into the Death Penalty debate, the Trump Administration is pushing back against the countrys recent trend of declining executions. More on the washington post. One of the authors of that piece, mark berman, is on the phone with us this morning. What was behind the administrations decision to reinstate the federal Death Penalty . Guest
Maria welcome back. Good friday morning, everybody. Im Maria Bartiromo thanks for being here. It is friday, august 18. 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. House judiciary chairman jim jordan subpoenaed the Justice Department and fbi for documents showing conversations between the agencys private companies and other third party groups, allege showing big tech collusion. In a letter to ag merrick garland, jordan writes this, numerous documents that have been made publicly available reflect the weaponization of the federal governments power to censor speech online, directly and by proxy. It is necessary for congress to gauge the extent to which doj officials have coerced, pressured, worked with or relied upon social media and other Tech Companies to censor speech. Jordan demanding the agencies turn over response documents next month. Daniel, we know what happened here because of the release of the twitter files. We were told 1,000 people in government were wo