Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is seen as the republican front runner for the white house in 2016. Now hes involved in a local political fire storm tarnishing his national image. Emails suggest top staffers were involved in closing lanes to the George Washington bridge. It was payback against a democratic mayor who refused to support christys reelection. The stunt caused massive traffic delays on one of the worlds busiest bridges. Chris christie is viewed as a top challenger to clinton. Fall out from the scandal could impact president ial aspirations. We have a story of a traffic jam on a busy commuter brim. Who in their right mind would close down access to the busiest bridge in the world to send me a message . The mayor of fort new jersey says governor Chris Christie has explaining to do after documents revealed the shutdown of leaps was an act of retribution because the democratic mayor refused to endorse of the re
Calloused disregard by using chemical weapons to murder children, women, and other innocents. We find these atrocities inexcusable. The president has the authority to use military force overseas in United States national interest. We have Vital National interest in a worsening catastrophe in syria and the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. Last year in response to a chemical weapons attack against civilians and to signal the regime to cease chemical weapons use, we targeted the military base from which the weapons were delivered. Earlier today, President Trump directed the u. S. Military to conduct operations with our allies to destroy the Syrian Regime chemical Weapons Research development and production capabilities. Tonight, france, the United Kingdom and United States took decisive action. Clearly, the assad regime did not get the message last year. This time our allies and we have struck harder. Together, we have sent a clear message to assad and its murderous lieutenants
Weapons. Establishing this deterrent is a violets National Security interest of the United States. The combined, british and french response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power. Military, economic and diplomatic. We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian Regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. The strikes were carried out by u. S. Navy ships and b1bomber and british tornado fighter jets. This evening we conducted strikes with two allies on multiple sites. And hit the research and deployment of chemical and biological weapons. The infrastructure was destroyed. They will lose research and Development Data and specialized equipment and it was a strike to show the regime it was inexcusable and inflicted massive damage without risk to civilians. This actions not unexpected. This follows meetings at the white house and with Prime Minister may and macron. The president said he would respond. He warned that russia or any other na
The White House is infuriated over Trump's request for Putin to release potentially damaging information on Joe Biden's son, Hunter, who allegedly funded secret biological weapons labs in Ukraine.
Firms run by the family of US President Joe Biden received $4.8 million in payments from Chinese business executives, according to a report in Washington Post