And the backlash is growing after the Obama Administration releases five more suspected terrorists from the Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay in cuba. Welcome this is edition of happening now. Im jon scott. Gerri i hope youre having a great day so far. Im jenna lee. A showdown is looming on capitol hill because of it. The president s renewed push to close gitmo once and for all. Gop lawmakers are working on a bill that would halt the president s ability to transfer gitmo prisoners. The worry that these detainees will eventually return to the battlefield. The five yemeni prisoners are suspected al qaeda fighters captured in pakistan. Years theyre being transferred to two different countries, oman and estonia. Defense Officials Say it is no longer necessary to keep them behind bars. Doug mckelway with the latest on our top story today. Doug . Reporter after that firestorm that erupted over the failure to send a high level delegate to the uppity march last week and release of five yemeni
Standing by their ruler, King Abdullah ii as he vow as hash and punishing war on isis after they burned alive a jordanian pilot. Abdullah, a former pilot himself, pledged hit militants hard in the very center of their strong hold until his mill teary, quote, runs out of bullets and. Jordanian warplanes bombed Islamic State targets in syria. Jordanian f16s, dropping bombs on the headquarters for isis. As u. N. Detailed atrocitieses isis committed against children including mass executions against little boys. Critics here at home slamming the president s strategy in his first interview since becoming chair of the house intelligence committee. He tells the kelly file that the u. S. Can do so much more in fighting isis and arming our allies fighting with jordan. Is president correct that when he said everything were doing and could be doing to fight this group. Nothing could be further from the troop. He is not admitting hot enemy is or where the enemy is located. This led the spread of r
Is different. This year, heres the weird thing. In nature and in news, it is very rare that some fairly static measure of how things are suddenly increases by factor of 50. Something suddenly grows 50 times over. That is what has just happened this year in New Hampshire politics. Last time around in 2012, by this time in the New Hampshire race, there had been roughly 2 million worth of political ads run in the state. 2 million, all the campaigns. This time around its not 2 million, its 100 million. Bloomberg politics reports that ad spending just in New Hampshire this cycle so far is at roughly 100 million. Thats 50 times what it was in 2012. Thats not counting. Thats only through today. Thats not counting what will be spent this weekend and monday and tuesday. 100 million in this one little state. Part of the reason for that is because there are more super pacs this year and tv station ks charge super pacs more for each ad. For example, in one local newscast, the Chris Christie campai
Thank a vet and know that the United States military deserves a commander in chief who loves our country passionately and will never apologize for this country. A new commander in chief who will never leave our men behind. A new commander in chief, one who will never lie to the families of the fallen. Im in it because just last week suffer and be hue mill appreciated on a world stage in the hands of the iranians because of a weak need and chief has decided that america will lead from behind and he who would negotiate deals, kind of like with the skills of a community organizer, maybe organizing a neighborhood tea, well, he deciding that no america would apologize and as part of the deal, as the enemy sends a message to the rest of the world that they capture and we cow tail and apologize and we bend over and say thank you, enemy. We are ready for a change. We are ready and our troops deserve the best. A new commander in chief whose track record of success has proven he is the master at
Announcer this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight from the Olympic Games in rio, Peter Alexander. Good evening. After an exhilarating couple weeks of competition here in rio, it remains the biggest blemish on these games. An embarrassing episode involving one of team usas highest profile athletes, ryan lochte, and several teammates. Tonight with the last of the four american swimmers finally back home, lochte is opening up about the controversy in an exclusive interview with matt lauer. The 32yearold calling his behavior that night immature and childish. Lochte says he takes full responsibility for his actions and for not telling the whole story from the start. Heres matt lauer. You told me on the phone, ryan, you said we are victims here. We are victims, and were happy that were safe. In the Police Press Conference they said not victims, theyre vandals. How do you feel about that . Its how you want to make it look like. Whether you call it a robbery, whether you call it extortion