democrats reject that characterization and say the dossier was not the basis for the work being approved. you set up this brilliant argument that says the dossier was the key to it. and the justice department didn t disclose this. the flaw is, that the dossier was not the key word did not have hardly anything to do with the getting of the warrant against carter page. house minority leader nancy pelosi has called the memo quote, a desperate attempt to distract the american people from the truth about the trump/russia scandal. congressman nunez says his committee is moving on to phase to be looking at what the department did during the russia investigation during the last year of obama s second term. a lot to unpack their. we go to jeff mason, white house correspondent forwarders and -for reuters.
weapons in syria, the line was crossed during mister obama s second term. the security council has an emergency meeting to address this. heather: surveillance video of a possible cop killing suspect, outside a courthouse in texas. and in an ambush style attack, investigators questioning an inmate sent to jail, called that man a threat to him and his family before he was gunned down. a former ga under armed protection, police not taking chances as they hunt for the killer. rob: tragic adult of addiction in america, a 13-year-old boy in ohio is one of the youngest casualties of heroin overdose. nathan died at a hospital after getting into his own father s heroin stash. he has a history of drug abuse and was arrested and charged
scrutinize mr. trump s choices for health and human services, labor, treasury and the epa. republicans are noting the swift confirmation president obama s cabinet nominees and those with cabinet-level rank when he first took office eight years ago allowing him the opportunity to assembly his team quickly. seven of mr. obama s nominees were confirmed on january 20th, 2009. the day he was sworn into office. five more were confirmed by the end of his first week. republicans are noting the comments made by people like senator tim cain of virginia back in february 2013 when mr. obama s second term was beginning saying, quote, i think we owe deference to a president for choices to executive positions. i think that is a very important thing to grapple with. the american public chooses someone to be president. they re giving that individual a mandate to govern and that mandate includes the assembly of the team the president feels is the appropriate team.
hear from them, i personally discovered a messy truth last week in ohio. let me introduce to you a family of two-time obama voters who switched in 2016 to vote for donald trump. take a look. farmland dominating the landscape and union democrats dominate local politics. over the last 40 years, the last four years especially obama s second term. industries have been hit hard. many steel mills and factory plants have been closed and thousands of jobs have been loss. i am invited to dinner with a phfamily of trump s supporters talk politics. scott sykes voted for obama
list also obamacare, the immigration executive action at home the climate agenda. you have candidates who will be running on repealing across the board a wide swath of obama s second term. i think the big challenge will be, as the president cited, what is the alternative. the president s biggest asset in this debate may not be the strength of this deal but the weakness of the alternatives. particularly if the rest of the world is willing to accept it can you plausibly argue that you can maintain crippling sanctions if the u.s. is alone in rejecting. the questions about the alternatives to the deal could also be tough for those criticizing the deal. i haven t really heard any alternatives. if you re running for president on either side, sometimes you don t need to present an