was turned into a weapon to be used against me, a political weapon used for nothing but personal and political gain by my opponent. her democratic opponent mike espy fired back. well, no one twisted your comments because the comments were loud. it came out of your mouth. and i don t know what s in your heart, but we all know what came out of your mouth. it caused our state harm. it s given our state another black eye that we don t need. president trump will headline two rallies for hyde-smith this upcoming monday. while espy has had several democratic heavy weights kamm pin campaign on his behalf. back with more mtp daily after this.
governor bill richardson who previously served as u.s. secretary ambassador to the united nations and a u.s. congressman, with a welcome to you, always good to see you, governor, josh earnest, the new york post compared to baghdad bob, this week they do love to grab the headlines, said that the mission is overall a success. they were quoting him as saying that. is it and how successful for that matter is a spin campaign that s going on? is it a spin campaign? well i think there have been some setbacks. the falling down of those two towns, so i think adjustments and changes are needed to strategy which i believe is a correct strategy. this is what i would do. what i would suggest. one, more training for the iraqi security forces. more training for the iraqi special forces. but i think what has to happen alex, is, you know, a lot of the iraqi forces have been retreating. they need to increase their commitment. we need to train them.
documents, they were operating off live e-mail traffic happening as these investigations and interrogations went forward. the amount of information that they worked with was very strong. it is massively foot noted and back stopped. indeed the cia tried to take it apart and come up with one factual correction. so the talk that s happening is a continuation of the spin campaign to support the program but in terms of the serious one-on-one look at the report for factual errors, not there. senator do you think this country did the right thing by not going down this road earlier and seeking prosecutions if laws were proeken? were broken? well that s a difficult conversation for me to have because i was not in the grand jury that investigated this. i was not part of the prosecutive team. one has to have faith in the system.
the blame at the west and ukraine. listen to the latest journalist from russia today to publicly resign. a story like this is absolutely not russia s fault. it s ukraine s fault, whatever country we are trying to fight back against. at that point, you really, really feel the sense that there s no adequate questioning. we bring in diana now live from moscow. how is this story playing from inside russia right now? reporter: well, the russian state media is charging kiev and the west with basically presenting a foregone conclusion about who is responsibility without gathering the evidence and blaming russia without having a proper case. in the same way we charge the russians in orchestrated a spin
are saying there was confusion. there was confusion not an act of terrorism. moscow keeps up the spin campaign blaming ukraine and the west for the tragedy, the fighting continues miles from the flight 17 wreckage. let s bring in ivan watson in donetsk. this is a crime scene happening in the middle of a war. reporter: that s absolutely true. with residents here in this separatist controlled city i m in called donetsk, describing shelling continuing throughout the night in the northern edges of the city and throughout the day on monday, we heard the constant rumble of artillery and witnessed, saw some civilian neighborhoods, residential neighborhoods hit by artillery that appeared to have come from