she. bill: that visit designed to restore stability. the secretary admits it is not all sunshine and rainbows. we are clear eyed about the challenges posed by the prc. the united states will advance a vision for the future that we share with so many others, free, open, stable and prosperous world. i came to beijing to strengthen levels of communication. we agreed on the need to stabilize our relationship. dana: the trip was originally scheduled for last february but the discovery of a chinese spy craft in u.s. airspace prompted the white house to postpone it. i don t know what more that chinese communist party has to do in terms of violating u.s. sovereignty and international law for us to take a tough stand. i think the problem has been the entire biden administration has been filled with mishops towards china. he has made mistakes in terms of not being tougher against china on stealing of intellectual property. letting spy balloons fly over the country unharassed.
Seems like every two years. This is one of the most extraordinary scholarshiply things i have seen. I dont know how you do this bus that not story. I want to talk to you about your book because it is its so definitive about violence and religion. But secondly, your thesis is really interesting. Which is that religion may not necessarily be the cause of all violence, and i wondered what prompted you to do this book in the first place. Guest just abuse im a writer about religion, i keep getting told by taxi drivers, psychiatrists, and teachers, that religion has been the cause of all the major wars in history, and it really jars because its clear the not true. The first world and Second World Wars were not caused by religion. They were fought for secular nationalism, and i think that if we could keep on just casting religion in the role of the absolute villain, we are not looking at some of the other factors that military historians tell us are always involved in both violence and terror
News has been breaking all day. I want to begin with the statement from president obama. He is going to ask congress to vote first. In a statement on the white house lawn, the president says the u. S. Should target Syrian Government sites. He wants to get approval from congress. Lawmakers are not due back from their summer break until september 9th. President obama also indicated he wont wait for a report by u. N. Chemical weapons inspectors, nor will he look for approval from the u. N. Security council. Our whi White House Correspondent mike vaquiera, a big surprise from the president , mike. Sgl we had a tip that he was not going to announce imminent action. The destroyers were in place. Secretary kerry had laid out the indictment in the eyes of the administration yesterday. The evidence collected by intelligence sources had made some of that public about four pages worth. The president spoke to this yesterday making it clear that a limited, socalled surgical strikes, were something
Good to have you with us. We begin with the very latest development in the crisis in the arab league from several gulf countries wrapped up a closed door meeting in key troe calling for an International Effort against the syrian people. Congressional leaders begun scheduling hearings for the coming week on president obamas request to launch a military attack. In syria, president Bashar Al Assad said his country will confront any aggression against his nation. Libby, secretary of state john kerry made the rounds on National Television this morning. Did we learn anything new . Reporter secretary kerry was everywhere this morning to make his case. Both to the American People and journalists and to members of congress about why he thinks the u. S. Needs to act. He says he has new information on samples from first responder, people on the ground in east damascus. He says they really have some tpraof behind them. We have signatures in their hair and blood samples. The case is growing stronge
It was like bang, bang, bang. We started running, and unfortunately, i was shot about three times in my leg. This is the central fallujah, it was until yesterday, under the control of isis. So grateful for your company, as always. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Tens of thousands of acres are burning in three western states this morning. Triple digit temperatures and high winds fueling the wildfires. Lets go to southern california. Entire hillsides consumed. 8,000 acres burned so far. Mandatory man tore evacuations and 2,000 firefighters are fighting this fire. Do some backfiring, what it does is create ace buffer and then this line will have a black line between this and the mane part of the fire. 12,000 acres are also burning in arizona. Lets go there. Another 50,000 acres in two separate fires burning in new mexico. Look at the map here. Heat and high winds fueling the fires. Allison chinchar is in the w weather room. Is there any forecast that brings rain . It is going to be