we have to steer this to a different place. take focus off president trump. secretary burns brings up the chinese who heard about the fact the president was halting those joint military exercises and from their perspective that was a win. a win for russians as well, right? of all the people who benefitted from this summit, chinese president probably benehe most. he gets an american president to commit that we re going to stop doing something the chinese don t like, be joint military kperdss. ghets an person predent to float the possibility of pulling u.s. troops off the korean peninsula which is chinese would like to see. he has the pressure alleviated
wire. this is attributable to reuters, we have a complicated relationship, but it is critical that the u.s. works with russia on this. u.s. secretary of state john kerry was told today in a phone call that opponents of yanukovych are failing to abide by a peace deal he signed on friday and the deal is not being up held by the opponents. i think that s premature at best. it is calling for amnesty for those on the square and in the independence area, but it was too soon to say whether or not the six points are being faithfully adhered to. but it does beg the question, the obama administration has been a mitigated failure. but hope springs eternal in my mind and the minds of many. this is an opportunity for president obama to engage putin in a way that s not dismissive, not political in the sense of who cares what the polls say, let s get that dialogue going. in fact, secretary burns, a very
distinguished and accomplished former ambassador to russia is heading to kiev. i think that s a good sign. but we have not done what we could have done over the last five years with regards to our relationship with russia and syria, iran and a whole host of other problems that maybe couldn t have been solved, but they could have been mitigated with the kremlin and with, of course, putin himself. a big moment nor the ukranian people as we wait to hear from the white house. congressman, thank you for joining us. tomorrow defense secretary chuck hagel is expected to preview the defense department s budget. hagel says they have huge spending cuts and they have to reduce it by about $40 billion more than planned. hagel will cut personnel costs, and cut housing aplounss. he ll also free pay raises for the highest ranking members of the military for a year.
on the day of the attack? thank you, state department analysts show that the conflict had taken the threat seriously in this memo from december 2011, nine months before the attack, signed off on the operation. the memo was prepared by the and patrick kennedy. they said it was a policy decision and we know also from congressional testimony that mrs. clinton s personal goal was to establish a permanent presence in benghazi. i would be amazed if he had not consulted the least with secretary burns and i feel and i don t think that she would ve made what is really
one has been called to task and now an in terrible investigation shows that decisions were made high up in the state department. and that is where we stand as we go live. one year after benghazi kathrine. thank you martha. this action memo signed by patrick kennedy clearly shows that the decision to have a presence in libya was green lighted at the top levels of the state department. we were told that he would not have acted without consulting with mrs. clinton. i would be amazed if he had not consulted secretary burns