Half a century in the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of office as in traditional and solemn ceremony the authority of the presidency is vested in my successor. We now stand ten years past the midpoint of the century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involve our own country. Despite these holocausts, america is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. In the councils of government we must guard against unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought by the military Industrial Complex. The misplaced power will persist. Lets bring in evan turner, hes author of one of my favorite ike books and thats saying a lot. I love reading about ike. It was ikes bluff, the secret battle to save the world. Evan, we might we had steve inscape on talking about when a president leaves office often things change very quickly. I was giving the example of dr. Brzezinski had a red phone in his house
Special envoy is that Franklin Roosevelt, who was immobilized and was unable to travel except in extraordinary circumstances, how she used those ways to sidestep and build a relationship and what position the United States for a policy that he sought to pursue taking america into the Second World War. And as michael explained, that changed the course of history as we know in very dramatic ways and in particular the role of america in very dramatic ways. And so the story is a fascinating one of itself. Its told beautifully by michael in a way that takes you into the rooms where the decisions were being made and the conversations were being had that shaped the course of history. But it also has i think important lessons about statecraft, about the way in which president s of with great difficulty nevertheless can turn the american state and new and profoundly important directions. Therefore it has relevance for today as well. Michael was the director of the institute for International Po
Kate middleton before returning to the white house. John kerry also here in washington. The New York Times reporting on friday theres a meeting planned with russian officials to discuss whether the president will have a oneonone meeting with president putin in moscow early next month. The Associated Press reporting on the first criminal charges filed in last years benghazi attack, naming olivia militia head and others in the september 11 Embassy Attack that killed four americans. Terrorism, one of the topics last night when the president sat down with jay leno on the tonight show. It marked his sixth appearance as either president ial candidate or president. We will get your reaction to the president using the tonight show as a forum to discuss serious issues. Join us on facebook or send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj and. Span hasbbc reporting yemen foiled an al qaeda plot to blow up Oil Pipelines and sees some of the countrys main ports. The story was released a short while ag
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Hear planes flying fairly low over my deck, fighter planes. This is my personal home deck, and i wondered what this was about and shortly after that i got a phone call. One of the nice things about working in Pierce County is we work closely with west pierce and tillicum police department. And we had people who responded from jblm who did great stuff. I get to work with people who are willing to when as soon as something goes down immediately respond and immediately cooperate closely. Thats what weve seen tonight. Next 24 hours im sure we will have some of our people there. We will have people from the federal government. We will have people from the
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Philadelphias. We begin tonight with the new details of the contact between officials at the highest level of the obama era Justice Department and that former british spy. Long after the fbi cut ties with this Christopher Steele character and the Trump Dossier Author well what happened . Bruce ohr, who was at the time a senior Justice Department official continued to maintain extensive contact with steele. He wasnt supposed to. This according to new emails fox news has obtained. Bruce ohrs new connection to this whole sword i did affair is made worse when you consider his wife nellie. Fox news has confirmed she worked for the Outfit Fusion Gps during the 2016 election. Explicitly hired to help Investigate Trump and russia related subjects. If you think the Trump Legal Team isnt following all of
information. Christopher steele was not to have contact with the fbi after they had to disassociate themselves from him when he, against policy, was leaking information to the press. Right. Now