today, russia blinked. in a statement obtained by cnn s donie o sullivan, the russian ambassador said the defense minister decided to relocate exercises as a gesture of goodwill. patrick murphy joins me, he is with the irish south and west fish patrick, wow. what a turn of events for you. your organization was named in this statement. so what is your reaction to what happened? did you ever expect the russian military to change its plans? no, we didn t quite expect that to happen in all fairness. but we were hoping for a bit of understanding, pamela. thanks very much for bringing us on. we can t undermine the rule, right? that the american people played in this. your interest in this moved a lot of things, i reckon. so great credit is due to yourselves and everybody covered this to give the support to allow this to happen. the same thing with people at home. it was a story that caught the
i think it might be the case his agent is trying to create distance without denying it, but everything and andy scholes played some of the audio, everything he said to this point, some of it might be cryptic. we can infer it is a matter of time until there s perhaps official announcement, perhaps after the super bowl. from the man himself. that s the voice missing now. his agent as you point out released that statement, nondenial. you have been around the game a long time, bob. is tom brady the greatest to ever play or what kind of question is that, of course he is, especially as quarterback. well, you can make a case for others. but no one has a case as good, let alone better than tom brady. let s put it this way. if you want to make a case for someone else based on statistics or on the theory that you can t compare among heroes, put it this way. tom brady is clearly the most accomplished football player in
in kooef. listen to this non-denial. when he was asked directly if the bidens had come up during china trade talks. i m asking you a direct question. asked and answered. that may end up being a huge story itself. remember it was tw days ago the u.s. chief of mission to ukraine. bill taylor made clear in his testimony to congress both there was an explicit quid pro quo and
that failed last week and it was embarrass. there s a lot that needs to be done not just for democrat candidates but the congress. what are democrats doing in congress. president trump added to questions with his nondenial of the reports yesterday. he was asked whether he discussed joe biden, his son or his family with the leader of ukraine. here is his response. it doesn t matter what i discuss but i will say this, somebody ought to look into joe biden s statement. it was disgraceful. he talked about billions of dollars that he s not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. somebody ought to look into that. how problematic is that response, especially given all the history around foreign election interference in 2016? ? i don t see a problem with the president s statement. he s highlighting the elephant in the room that, you know, joe biden s actions that he bragged about at the foreign council
information. they had a strategy, rod was going to say he was just joking? to deflect from the truth that they were not talking about? that s right. this is the first official confirmation that allegations took place. there was testimony about it. you have rod rosenstein and his team trying to craft a response, non-denial on the allegations. rosenstein said we are hopeful we are successful in prepresenting people from talking about. it they changed the statement from a denial.eople from talkin. it they changed the statement from a denial. to a less categorical denial.