Breechly after that meeting saying he will support the president s plan and called on other republicans to do the same. First, heres what the president had to say just before that meeting started. The military plan that has been developed by our joint chiefs and that i believe is appropriate is proportional and limited. It does not involve boots on the ground. This is not iraq, and this is not afghanistan. This is a limited, proportional step that will send a clear message not only to the assad regime but also to other countries that may be interested in testing some of these International Norms that there are consequences. Randall pinkston joins us live from washington with more. Randall, the drums are beating louder and in unison at this hour. Reporter yes indeed, they are, dale. President obama said this morning that he believes and he wants to make sure that there is unified action with respect to any strike against syria. He met with 16 members of congressional leadership along wi
That from the political for tomorrow, were going to be joined by brian wall street is a republican strategist. Issueare the environments heading into the last two weeks before congress is scheduled to take it summer recess. Rs we are looking at race in america. Our guest will be mychal denzel smith. 30. Ill start this at 83 we will see you then. Coming up next, the confirmation hearing for the nomination met nomination for samantha bauer. Then a hearing with state department officials. He had been taken in a plane crash in 1948. Rose has literally seen her children and almost birth order disappear. In 1964, she wrote about what it is like in that summer. She said gone are the president ial helicopters that we will look forward to every week in bringing my son. I would see his children run out to him. Gone are those days. She missed that. She said gone are the days that we are said to be the most powerful family in the world. Barbara perry uses information from diaries and letters as sh
Pelosi war rages in ukraine to protect democracy. All here are in awe and grateful to the ukrainian people that they have displayed unimaginable heroism and they confront unconscionable atrocities. And the Congress Remains with ukraine. Their right to defend democracy, not only for its people but for the world. We are honored to be joined by the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska, who traveled here from the heart of the war zone. We look forward to hearing her report on security, economic and humanitarian conditions on the ground. Thank you, also, to ambassador for joining us today. Madam ambassador, thank you for joining us. Sitting there with our minority and majority leaders of the house. And we welcome the majority leader of the Senate Republican leader of the senate, senator mcconnell, as well, and members of the senate to the house side. Well, were in the middle of the capitol. Madam first lady, i present to you members of the United States congress, strong supporters of the u
Kind of confrontation we dont want to seep. Thank to see. Thank you mr chairman. Its the top of the hour on al jazeera. We are watching the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The first hearing on the possibility of military action against syria and in response to the Syrian Governments alleged chemical attack on its own people on 21 august. Its been a tricky and tough session so far for secretary kerry, facing several questions on the issue of boots on the ground. Us forces on the ground, and also what happens if there is a response from syria and it gets out of hand in the region. Lets go back to the hearing now, and this is senator ben cardon. We need to have it focussed on the mission. It has to be done in a way that protects civilians the way that we can, and it has to be a limited duration. I want to come back to the point that the chairman raised in your comments, where you say we should shut the door as slightly as possible when dealing with putting our troops on the ground in
Might arise. Have its ot yet advanced warning capabilities. But if it were to develop them, and if it were to prevent attacks on china, it seems that would be a scenario in which warhead ambiguity would be a particular problem. And a lot of the analysis of warhead ambiguity today its hard to convince russia that a strike on a third country, like. Ran, was not a Nuclear Strike that is the easy case. A hard case is how you deal with notkes when the strike is on a third country, but the country with the advanced Early Warning capability, like russia. R china that being said, there are benefits and risks to prevention all Global Strikes conventional Global Strikes. When l. A. N. Was an analyst at mdu she is now the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense. Unlike a ballistic missile, where it is launching rare is going to land, highly maneuverable boost glide systems, and to an extent, hypersonic cruise missiles, have ambiguity about where theyre going to land. Countries observing them cannot