speaking yesterday, tillerson said after an effective military effort, a political settlement would be the next step in the process. but the second also undercut the president s assurance, that the u.s. will win this war, adding that talks with the taliban may be key to that process. this entire effort is intended to put pressure on the taliban to have the taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one, but neither will you. so, at some point, we have to come to the negotiating table and find a way to bring this to hand. pakistan and the u.s. historically had very good relationships but over the last few years there s been a real erosion of confidence between our two governments. there s been an erosion in trust. because we have witnessed terrorist organizations given safe havenen outside of pakistan to carry out attacks against u.s. servicemen, u.s. officials, disrupting peace efforts outside of afghanistan.
keeping it zipped. this triple straig illustrated difficult that s getting. corgi out raids this morning, so far 12 people arrested in east london. saturday s violence marked the third incident on british soil in as many months. speaking yesterday prime minister theresa may called on citizens to unite against attacks like these. while we have made significant progress in recent years, there is, to be frank, far too much toll rhythm of extremism in our country. so we need to become far more robust identifying it and stamping it out across public sector and across society. that will require some difficult and often embarrassing conversations. but the whole of our country needs to come together to take on this extremism, and we need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated
this paves the way for this system. president trump is weighing in on the election in kansas and giving the preview of how tomorrow s special contest in georgia will play out. taking to twitter yesterday, he wrote the recent kansas election, congress, was a really big media event until the republicans won. now they play the same game with georgia. bad. bad. speaking yesterday, senator bernie sanders claims democrats didn t do enough to support the democratic candidate. it s true that the democratic party should have put more resources in that election. he ran 20 points better than the democratic candidate for president did. so protesting is great.
women who were simply doing their jobs. april ryan, a respected journalist with unrivalled integrity was doing her job just this afternoon in the white house press room when she was patronized and cut off trying to ask a question. too many women, especially women of color, have had a life time of practice taking precisely these kinds of indignities in stride. switching gears a little bit in overseas. the top american general in mosul, iraq says the u.s. air strikes earlier this month probably played a role in the death of civilians there. speaking yesterday, lieutenant general steven townson said the u.s. is responsible for the deaths which unconfirmed reports put it between 1 and 200 people, it was unintentional accident of war. he indicated that an investigation will look at whether the attack might have set off a larger blasts from explosives set by isis fighters
country that accepts and cherishes immigrants, not disdains them. america is at its best when we are building bridges of opportunity and not walls of distrust. america is at its best when we understand that no matter where you were born, no matter your first language, no matter who you worship, no matter who you love, we are a land of opportunity. the secretary of homeland security has seemingly confirmed reports of the trump administration weighing a plan to separate women and children crossing the mexican border together illegally into the united states. speaking yesterday, secretary john kelly said the move would be part of a broader plan aimed at discouraging families from making the dangerous and sometimes deadly trip across mexico. i would do almost anything to deter the people from central america to getting on this very,