This situation were in now didnt have to be. And, you know, i feel like part of the reason that Governor Cuomo has become a National Leader and not just the leader of new york on this in this crisis and on this subject is because hes not only speaking plainly about the challenges that are in new york and you can trust what he says and he doesnt say stuff that is made up or aspirational but hes also sort of talking about things as a human being in a way that is very relatable, talking about the anguish and the anxiety and the fear and a lot of the other things that i think other leaders are sort of afraid to talk about for fear of looking weak. It makes him look stronger. I think it also makes him even more trustworthy when hes conveying the terrible news that hes been conveying. But yeah, hes fully there, fully engaged with this crisis in a way that i think connects with people in a powerful way. Its i think hes modeling an important kind of leadership. Yeah, its really a moment where
As january, and the New York Times reports that. That is President Trumps defense today. The times states the intelligence finding was, in fact, briefed to President Trump, and the White Houses National Security Council discussed the problem in march. A spokesman is saying the veracity of these allegations continues to be evaluated. Those are the outlines of the story, and we have experts to break it down. But lets just take in the essence of exactly whats going on here. The United States is not technically in a hot war with russia. But russia infamously clashes with u. S. Interests, Everybody Knows about that. Russia intervene in the last president ial election according to our own justice department. An ongoing plot to pay for kill u. S. Troops would be a huge escalation, according to some, a potential act of war. So the white houses response is shaping up to be a scandal in its own right. As for russia, the exposure of this plot, as mentioned, were referring to the articles and inde
Expect every action. Including chemical weapons. That depends. Have you to expect everything. In the interview he called on president obama to be, quote, transparent and present the evidence of the attack to the American Public, which is exactly what the administration appears to be doing. Yesterday chief of stat Dennis Mcdonough and on all five news shows, today president obama will appear in six interviews. Earlier secretary of state john kerry continued the campaign to shore up support. So the evidence is powerful. The question for all of us is what are we going to do about it, turn our backs . Have a moment of silence . We know that his regime gave orders to prepare for a chemical attack. We know that they deployed forces and put them in the places where this took place. But hard evidence isnt the only tactic the white house is using. On sunday the Senate Intelligence committee released extremely graphic videos of the august 21st chemical attack that killed over 1400 people, includ
Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The violence in ukraine is intensifying. Today ukrainian officers, four officers have been killed, 30 more wounded. According to Ukraines Interior Ministry this is a mob on sunday stormed a Police Station in odessa freeing militants. Riot police stood by as the crowd gathered and chanted. Hours of bloody street clashes followed in what mike mcfaul calls a major escalation in this conflict. Keir take it away. Tell me what the latest is from the ground. Andrea, in slo vafrpgz, heavy gunfire has been heard today and the news confirmed by the Ukrainian Ministry that a helicopter was shot down. That will be the third helicopter down we assume by prorussia militia and hear it landed in water and people on board were not killed. They did survive. The ukrainians also claiming that prorussia militia were using civilians as human shields and weve heard reports on the outskirts of vehicles coming out with tires shout out of people terrified but remember
Before the iraqis. Al abadi has lots of questions to answer. New video that we received on oil repineries. There will be more. The blood line for isis. A smallscale refineries provide up to 2 million a day from black market oil. We didnt completely obliterate them off the map. These strikes are big deal. Theyre not going to be pumping out refined oil any time soon. We are following a very busy news day. In this hour well bring you president obamas official announcement of attorney general eric holders retirement, part of a very full day for this president who returned to washington from the unjust a short time ago where he sought agreement from World Leaders about the threat posed by isis and other extremists. So far, building a Broad Alliance particularly in the middle east has proved complicated. Earlier today president obama met with egypts president al sissi while Vice President biden met in the last hour. Both countries have pledged some measure of support in the fight against isi