Last night at my direction, the United States military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans. Qassem suleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. Lou the commanderinchief obviously taking decisive and bold action to end the thuggish reign of irans Qassem Suleimani as leader of the iranian quds force. He had a lot of american blood on his hands, responsible for killing more than 600 of our troops in the iraq war. Some put the estimates much higher than that. Suleimani, the chief exporter of iran state sponsor terrorism, but because of President Trump, and our unrivalled military, the suleimani legend is ended. He got what he deserved. The president last night directing an airstrike in baghdad to kill suleimani, just days after an attack on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad by iranian backed militiamen who were
Democrats in the congress today. Lou it is an extraordinary moment in history for so many reasons. We have as i was saying earlier with walid and fred, this is a moment for celebration. This is a country whose president has acted, with an attack on a specific enemy of this country. This is straightforward. A person who has done this country and hundreds of americans, indeed thousands of americans great damage and killed hundreds, if not even more. Its just its a you know, i hate to use the word surreal because it is so often overused, it is cliched but it is i will go back to my word, stupefying. Thats a good word for it, lou. What most americans already know is that this president s record on National Security is the best record of my lifetime. He just in spite of being impeached, the day before the Impeachment Vote in the house, he passed a defense bill that is the largest defense bill in american history. Hes passed three of them in a row to rebuild the American Military so that he
Last night at my direction, the United States military executed a flawless strike that terminated the terrorist ringleader responsible for gravely wounding and murdering thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds at least of americans. Qassem suleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone. Lou the commanderinchief obviously taking decisive and bold action to end the thuggish reign of irans Qassem Suleimani as leader of the iranian quds force. He had a lot of american blood on his hands, responsible for killing more than 600 of our troops in the iraq war. Some put the estimates much higher than that. Suleimani, the chief exporter of iran state sponsor terrorism, but because of President Trump, and our unrivalled military, the suleimani legend is ended. He got what he deserved. The president last night directing an airstrike in baghdad to kill suleimani, just days after an attack on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad by iranian backed militiamen who were
Reports impeachment broken. Serious credibility problems for adam schiff claiming the democrats early running a solemn process so adam schiff tells new yorker magazine that the president does not give a [bleep] about whats good for the country, legal experts said adam schiff broke the law with this terrifying abuse of power. The d. C. Publication says adam schiff has a new and distressing weapon in warfare. Adam schiff the First Congress meant to expose political rival record and impeachment report. To the debate, do you want to live in a world where adam schiff has power to spy on political rivals and regular americans . Also tonight, the false accusation intelligent report about impeachment makes about the phone calls and the shocking silence of the media as Democrat Eric swalwell defend adam schiff acting a judge and jury. Heres Eric Swalwell saying, if youre going to talk to a criminal, we cannot protect you. That debate coming up, nancy pelosi telling cnn town hall, civilization i
New york stock exchange, and Hillary Vaughn on capitol hill. Lets start with edward, investors seem to like what chair powell had to say. Reporter yeah, just somewhat, right . 29 or so points, somewhat like it lauren. The Federal Reserve chairmans touted this very Strong Economy that were in right now. Even at one point, signaled taking credit for keeping the expansion going through the rate cuts they made, powell said it was a difficult year where the fed reversed course. Weve cut rates three times since july. Thats 75 basis points worth of cuts and we do believe that Monetary Policy operates with long and variable lags and that itll take some time before the full effects of those actions are seen in the economy. So thatll take some time, so thats one reason to hold back and wait. Reporter and powell is watching inflation very closely, core pce inflation at 1. 3 over the past 12 months below their 2 target, powell does signal as you heard no more rate cuts or hikes, for next year. He