Half years after we handed over security to the country to iraqs military, two and a half years after president obama said our war in iraq was ending iraq is once again the focus of our military and our commander in chief. Just hours after president obama announced we were returning to an active role in iraq, the u. S. Launched two rounds of air strikes yesterday against isis fighters near erbil. The u. S. Has a consulate in that Northern Iraqi city and thousands of americans live there. In addition to those military strikes the u. S. Is trying to keep a humanitarian crisis from worsening. The u. S. Military conducted a secondary drop of food and water late last night to thousands of members of the yazidi religious minority who have been trapped on mount sinjar for days and are surrounded by isis militants. The situation might be worse for hundreds of yazidi women. Militants are holding them kapt of at schools in mosul. He told the a. P. By now consider them slaves and have vicious pla
Were being beamed in from ufos. You didnt know where he was coming up with this stuff. And im afraid to say that, and i saw him do standup and he was he was miraculous. He was superhuman. But you know, i dont know that movies ever really fulfilled him. In the way that i wish they had. I wish i wish we lived at a time when movies could be looser. Could accommodate the kinds of spontaneity that he had. In a weird way, he never found, you know how will ferrell works with a guy named adam mckay. They create a feeling on the set. I dont think Robin Williams ever found, ever quite theres always something about williams i was my mother always loved Robin Williams. Sort of been a devoted fan through her eyes and there was always, of course, something about his presence that was so manic. That was what he was channeling when he was doing his best work. It was the mania being unleashed, like watching a dancing flame. And you didnt know it was. It would be very dark as well. And i dont think you
Thats not to say he didnt deliver i think if you watch the fisher king again he was don quixote figure, a mad visionary, that i think caught some of the manic energy and a lot of the darkness. Thats a performance i dont think is sufficiently appreciated. Moscow on the hudson great film. Gets the soul of a russian expatriate, the deep melancholy. Also surprisingly effective later in this career when he was cast as a serial killer in the film insomnia opposite al pacino, and it was startling the way he seemed to relish having a chance to swear on screen and to be nasty and cruel. Those were sides of his personality that didnt often show up on screen. The kind of danger you talk about, the feeling when you are watching him, particularly in his improvisational mode, not necessarily in the confines of scripted film, although sometimes in those roles, that really comes across. I want to play his first appearance on carsons tonight show where you can feel that sense of watching someone who do
Saudi arabia. And the sanctions in the war continue to grow hotter. Putin is banning food imports which the white house says only hurts the russian people. Theres also more fighting between ukrainian troops and prorussian rebels. And now nato is demanding that putin pull his 20,000 troops back from the Ukraine Border and step back from the brink. And tualks are under way in egypt. So far, the ceasefire is holding. In switzerland, the u. S. And iranians are at negotiations for the next phase of nuclear talks. Todays session was considered constructive. As if thats not enough at the white house is msnbc kristen welker. We just heard from the white house on iraq. Where do things stand now in. According to Senior Administration officials, theres humanitarian assistance provided to the minorities trapped on that mountain in northern iraq. They could be even considering air drops so food and water. There are also reports as the militant group in iraq has been making major gains, particularly
Has died unexpectedly today. Robin williams, age 63, died in his home in Northern California, what the Marin County Sheriffs Office is describing as a suspected suicide. Its hard to overstate the fame and the popularity that Robin Williams achieved almost instantly, thanks to his Remarkable Television debut in the late 1970s. February 1978 when he went from being a relatively unknown comic to one of the most famous actors in america. Thanks to his appearance as a space alien named mork during the fifth season of the humongously popular 1950s themed sitcom that was called happy days which i watched basically on a loop throughout my entire childhood. The mork on happy days completely off the wall appearance freaked audiences out in the best possible way and from that appearance came the sitcom called mork mindy which was an immediate sensation. If you were an american who watched television in the late 1970s, early 1980s, you knew chap and verse about mork from ork and consciousness, tur