Microsoft purchases the knock kia line for about 5 billion. The tide of syrians threing shows no sign of slowing down. A u. N. Report released just a few hours ago, says more than 2 million syrians have fled the country, most of them in the last year. Lebanon and jordan have received between 515,000, and 720,000 refugees while egypt, turkey, and iraq have also seen an increase. More than half of them are children. A further 4348 people have been displaced inside the country, and all together more than 6 million syrians have been torn from their homes. The Obama Administration trying to convince congress to take action. The president will meet with top lawmakers from both parties today. But as al jazeera reports, the president still has a lot of convincing to do. Senators john mccain and Lindsay Graham to hear an appeal directly from president obama. They say his plan doesnt do far enough, and they want him to topple the assayed government. The president says thats not his plan. What he
The president getting the days. Completely inappropriate stop sign from the attorney general. Good evening to you, bret. Response to the ability of any president to respond to attorney general bill barr has emergencies and that has been been on the hot seat since early done over and over again by Tuesday Morning when president s going back all the would be be giving you. President trump at 2 00 in the morning tweeted his outrage for wasnt there and a member in saying that it was okay but if the sentencing for his friend roger stone. You do a full scale action, its now the attorney general is very frankly and very publicly urging okay . Let me contrasted with the the president to stop tweeting. Way i handled president obamas killing of usama bin laden. A rare and stinging rebuke from i was not called in advanced. The president from attorney general bill barr today in an interview with abc news, im not dominant part of the gang of eight. I was not offended. Barr saying the president s i
I want to thank you for your unbelievable strength and courage and leading that conversation. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] out hearing of the subcommittee will resume. Thank you, e. G. , for your service, for dedications, for your sacrifices youve made for country. Im so grateful you are here today with this important hearing. Am also incredibly grateful that many of you came this morning and participated and listened to the first two panels. That means a great deal, not just to our witnesses but also to their families and all of our military families. We appreciate it very, very much. I know that this is becoming very debated issue, both within the military and in everyday conversation. I also know that many of you have seen the film the invisible war, so the jumping off point on how important this issue is for our military and their families. Im very, very eager to hear your testimony, and
Hello, im wolf blitzer. Wherever youre watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. We begin with breaking news this hour at the white house and up on capitol hill. Take a look at live pictures coming in from inside the White House Briefing room. Just a little while from now, the press Secretary Sean Spicer will be taking reporters questions again. Well bring it to you live as soon as it begins. The Trump Administration is celebrating the announcement of the president S Supreme Court nominee, neil gorsuch. The president said he told Mitch Mcconnell to invoke the socalled Nuclear Option if necessary, allowing it to be approved by a simple Senate Majority. We end up with that, good luck. If you can, mitch, go nuclear because that would be an absolute shame if a man of this quality was caught up in the web. So i would say, its up to mitch but i would say go for it. Were also following dramatic developments on capitol hill after a fiery hearing. The Senate Judiciary vot
By Chris Stirewalt on how the democrats are playing their cards. First, ed henry joins us live on capitol hill with the latest on the ongoing vote. Ed. It got pretty intense in the last 24 hours, as you suggested. Racial politics, basically, at its worst. Accusations flying among democrats late last night on the senate floor, led by liberal senator Elizabeth Warren, that basically, they believe Jeff Sessions, one of their Senate Colleagues, and outcome of the nominee to be attorney general, poised to be confirmed at any moment, is a racist. Using, in part, a letter from the late Coretta Scott king, who opposed his nomination a couple decades ago for a federal judge of ship to suggest that he intimidated elderly black voters decades ago against getting out and voting. What was the Pressure Point here, the turning point, was when elizabeth ward suggested that Jeff Sessions is a disgrace. That led Mitch Mcconnell, the leader in this chamber to say that violates a senator rule about impugn