But the president cited another reason for taking actions. As tens of thousands of christians and other religious minorities were left stranded on an iraqi mountain without food or water forcing families to bury old and young in shallow rocky graves and to decide between their own starvation at the top of the mountain or death at the mountain of the mountain at the hands of isis, this group on the march for months claiming control of some of iraqs largest cities by june. Theyre not stopping there. Claiming control now of iraqs largest dam earlier today, an achievement that could allow them to unleash a whole new kind of attack, not only on iraqis, but the u. S. Personnel stationed in that countrys capital. We have Fox Team Coverage for you tonight. Ed henry, charles krauthammer, colonel tom mcnerney and tom sexton. Ed . John boehner said he was dismayed by a lack of strategy from the president in terms of dealing with isis march not just through iraq but syria as well. That seems to be
Story for us and joins us now. Ryan, trumps Transition Team telling flynn the Russian Ambassador he was communicating with was likely being monitored byes u. S. Intelligence and where does this investigation go . Well, this is important, fred, because it shows that trump transition officials were aware of the complications that were surrounding sergey kislyak, the Russian Ambassador and his connections to russian intelligence agencies and furormore, their further more their attempts to intervene in the u. S. Election. This came at a time when flynn had meetings with kislyak and spoke about sanctions handed down by the United States. Now even though kislyak received those warnings, he continued to stay in communication with kislyak and at one point the trump transition asked the Obama Administration for a profile, a cia profile, of kislyak so that flynn would have a full understanding of who he was dealing with. We dont know if flynn ever read that report. Of course, fred, Michael Flynn
Overseas, just hours before france heads to the polls to choose its next president , the leading candidate says his campaign has been hacked. The reaction to the allegation on the eve of this crucial election. And fresh off their vote to repeal obamacare, Many Republican lawmakers are back at home and meeting facetoface with constituents. Anger over the vote already bubbling up at town halls. Youre mandating people on medicaid accept dying. You are making no one wants anybody to die. You know, that line is so indefensible. Nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. All right. Well talk more about all of that, but first we begin with the new development surrounding Michael Flynn. The Washington Post reports he was warned by senior members of the Trump Transition Team that the Russian Ambassador he was communicating with was likely being monitored by u. S. Intelligence. This is a soon after the election, you know, theres whats referred to as landing teams, which are being
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