Isis has impressed people the world over, not only with its lightning fast military gains in iraq and syria, but also its use of social media to spread its propaganda mission. This week on twitter, it released a second video from british hostage john cantlay. The presentation opens with the title lend me your ears with cantlay introducing himself as a longtime prisoner of the Islamic State who has been abandoned by his government. He proceeds to rail against the military campaign against isis. And isis through cantlay moves to support its argument using selected quotes from noted americans, including former new jersey governor, tom cain, who chaired the 9 11 commission. But he begins the video by quoting liberally from my first guest, michael shower, former head of the cias bin laden desk. At this time, cnn is not comfortable showing this propaganda video because the network believes cantlay was filmed under duress. But he said, so lets get straight to the point with a quote from forme
Of Coretta Scott king are not suitable for debate in the United States senate. She is speaking out to msnbc. Mission withdrawn. And yemen said the. S. Cano longer run ground operations in their country. We are waiting for the president to speak and we will bring that to you as soon as it begins. At the same time, this is true u. S. Politics. We are watching for this, our 18 of the talkathon on the senate floor now focussing on attorney general nominee, overnight, turn up the volume on this one, an extraordinary dustup between mcconnell and warren, king focused on a case sessions led involving voter fraud in the 1980s. In initiating the case, mr. Sessions ignored allegations of similar behavior by whites choosing instead to chill the exercise of the franchise by blacks by his misguided investigation. 20 minutes later, mcconnell called out warren for violating rule 19, a rule that prohibits senators from impugning a senate colleague. Mr. President. The majority leader . The senator has i
Those bites that had a natural drum roll underneath them . So weird. More than 201,000 americans, were at 3. 9 unemployment. Who takes the bow for that . The president of the United States right now or the guy that preceded him . That was seen in display today for all of its monkeyness and in your faceness. Lets go to Connell Mcshane keeping track of it all. Hi, neil. The report that we had today was a solid report. The report on jobs. We look at it by the numbers. 201,000 nonfarm jobs were added in the month of august. That was better than what we saw the month before. The Unemployment Rate staying where it was. 3. 9 . We also saw a pickup in wages average Hourly Earnings increasing by 10 cents. Up by 3 from the same time last year. Actually the biggest gain weve seen since the economic expansion began in the middle of 09. Speaking of that expansion, it was indeed the reemergence of president obama that brought the origin of the expansion back into focus. The former president made a s
For writing one of the conditions for serbia joining the e. U. Is that you signed a legally binding agreement on peaceful relations with kosovo which declared its independence in two thousand and eight youve never recognize that these talks come and go sometimes theyre on sometimes theyre off why should the e. U. Bother with all this feuding and bilateral disputes that you have with cos over here too much trouble for the launch. I think as much as our interest is to join the e. U. I think the enlargement to cover balkans is also in the interest i think first and foremost European Union is a peace project and its a successful one because we have for the first time in history your long term peace in europe would you say that but they know you have made it clear havent they they cannot and will not import bilateral disputes junko deal because said it last year thats pretty clear isnt it it was clear theyre not going to point to a dispute with constable it is absolutely clear if you dont s
President ial candidate called for civility and trying to get things done. He used his own time in the senate to tell that story. The two examples he used were labeled segregationalist. The language biden used set democrats off even more. Its the second time in recent months biden has been raked over the coals for positive comments. The former vicepresident had to back track after calling vicepresident pence a decent guy. Peter has the story. Democrats have been saying for months they dont want to be too tough on other democrats. Whoever the nominee is, is strong against President Trump. Not anymore. Tonight they are turning on joe biden. During joe bidens tenure in washington lawmakers have come and gone. Last night he looked back on his time with segregationalists. He said i was in a caucus with james. He never called me boy. He called me son. He was known as the voice of the white south. Biden talked about a man who argued against mixed schools. One of the meanest guys i ever knew.