And wandering through hot and cold wars through corruption and cynicism the American People of hunger for leadership founded on integrity in wisdom and courage we have sought a leader who is of the people a man raised to leadership by the people a leader whos whole life has been spent for the people. A sturdy humble heir to the respect and the affection all peoples felt the lincoln such a man is general Ike Dwight D Eisenhower the man from abilene. Never in history have so Many Americans known so much about the very essence of one man a hundred million americans. Know eisenhower the way, you know a neighbor. We know him by heart and why do we cheer for him . Not because he is a general but because instinctively we believe in you we hail him as a hometown boy who is all the best about america. His roots are in the heartland main street usa. I come here first to thank you. To say the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. I want to speak first of the dreams of a barefoot b
Vacation today, reaffirming that u. S. Aircraft on stapbl by stan. Today, iraq took a promising step forward in this critical effort, last month, the iraqi people named a new president , today president m massume nameda new designate. An important step forward forming a new government that can unite iraqs different communities. Defense secretary chuck hagel still claims that u. S. Troops will not return to iraq in any quote, combat mission. Despite ongoing airstrikes and fact that Obama Administration has already flip flopped on arming the kurds, Jennifer Griffin is at the pentagon with our report. Well place sources say that cia is overseeing delivery of u. S. Weapons to the kurds. Today u. S. Fighter jet carried out more airstrikes dropping another round of bombs on isis targets allowing Kurdish Peshmerga to take back 2 towns in northern iraq. American f16s, and unmanned predator drops had some effect, yet thousands of yazidis refugees remain trapped. In no way i want toing is we hav
Vacation today, reaffirming that u. S. Aircraft on stapbl by stan. Today, iraq took a promising step forward in this critical effort, last month, the iraqi people named a new president , today president m massume nameda new designate. An important step forward forming a new government that can unite iraqs different communities. Defense secretary chuck hagel still claims that u. S. Troops will not return to iraq in any quote, combat mission. Despite ongoing airstrikes and fact that Obama Administration has already flip flopped on arming the kurds, Jennifer Griffin is at the pentagon with our report. Well place sources say that cia is overseeing delivery of u. S. Weapons to the kurds. Today u. S. Fighter jet carried out more airstrikes dropping another round of bombs on isis targets allowing Kurdish Peshmerga to take back 2 towns in northern iraq. American f16s, and unmanned predator drops had some effect, yet thousands of yazidis refugees remain trapped. In no way i want toing is we hav
[ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. Good to see you today and welcome to the full court press here on current tv. Were coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours on this thursday morning february 7. Bringing up to date on the big news of the day and giving. Chance to talk about it. Let us know your opinions at 186655press. Our big town hall meeting of the day here. About to kick off. And breaking news, the white house has reversed course. It says that now will release the secret memos on what guidelines it uses in deciding to kill americans overseas and what kind of evidence they demand before they target americans. That, of course, comes only after getting a lot of pressure from members of congress and from the public. So, you see, all of those phone calls really do work. Well tell you more about that and a whole lot of other stuff here on this mornings full court press but first, we get the latest, todays current news update from Lisa Ferguson out in los an
Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is tuesday and 5 00 a. M. In the east. Officials are warning that storms killed at least six people will likely continue for weeks to come. In hayes county texas, one person confirmed dead and 12 missing. The missing likely including some children two families gathered in a river side Vacation Home for the long weekend. A home washed away off the foundation by a flash flood. The ground is saturated. Forecasters are warning there may be more flash flooding ahead. The Texas Governor greg abbott added 24 more counties to the disaster declaration bringing the total to 37. We are urging all citizens to get out of harms way. Dont risk your lives by trying to not evacuate the water that may be rising. Across the region there have been hundreds of rescues and also some narrow escapes. Oh, my god stop he needs to get out in Kendall County Officials Say the 68yearold driver here was able to get out of his suv. Stunning