this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m tony harris. the pentagon raised the threat level at military bases. jamie mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon. is the pentagon responding to a specific threat here? well no in raising the threat level from alpha, which is the lowest level to bah woe, which is a higher level of threat the pentagon says it is not reacting to any specific or identifiable threat. technically this order came from the commander in colorado who is responsible for protecting the home homeland, he looked around and sees what is going on in social media and decided it wasn t acceptable for military bases to be at the lowest level. here is what he said, quote: and that s the point they are stressing here. no specific threat. no specific group, but just an increased amount of the kinds of things they can t keep track of on the internet. social media, people talking to each other, the rise of extremism in some places. they felt like this w
kmeelt. dutch ruppersberger and congressman adam kinzinger. economic sanctions be damned, russia opens another front in the ukraine. very important to recognize that a military solution to this problem is not going to be forthcoming. from kiev, senator robert menendez chairman of the senate foreign relations committee on whether anything is forth coming. plus the felony indictment of texas governor rick perry with a man who has been there, done that, former house republican leader tom delay on perry s future and his take on washington from the outside in. and i approve this message. labor day weekend, the end of summer re-runs and beginning of fall campaign. are you ready for some politics? this is state of the union . good morning from washington. i m candy crowley. we begin with a new setback for isis thanks in part to military action by the u.s. today iraqi security and volunteer forces broke the isis siege of amerli, a town north of baghdad. the u.s. carried
to muffle the drums of war. but there s no point in me asking for action on the part of congress before i know exactly what it is that is going to be required for us to get the job done. isis, the job, what it takes to get it done with the top democrat on the house terms committee. dutch ruppersberger and congressman adam kinzinger. economic sanctions be damned, russia opens another front in the ukraine. very important to recognize that a military solution to this problem is not going to be forthcoming. from kiev, senator robert menendez chairman of the senate foreign relations committee on whether anything is forth coming. plus the felony indictment of texas governor rick perry with a man who has been there, done that, former house republican leader tom delay on perry s future and his take on washington from the outside in. and i approve this message. labor day weekend, the end of summer re-runs and beginning of fall campaign. are you ready for some politics?
hollande s huge diplomatic initiative. after the paris attacks. to try to bring together various countries in a grand coalition to combat isis. he s been to washington already. he s met with angela merkel of germany. he met with david cameron, the british prime minister. now he s here in moscow sitting down for a working dinner as we speak with vladimir putin, the russian president. of course, they ve both been affected by terrorism in the past several weeks. the french attacks everybody in paris. but also russian lost an airliner in sinai, you may remember, 224 people killed when that was bombed by suspected isis terrorist group related terrorist group. so the two have got a shared interest in combatting this group. it s something vladimir putin said in the minutes before the dinner started. they met the cameras. they allowed a few photographs to be taken. vladimir putin said some encouraging remarks, saying, look, we want to work together and unite against a common evil. so
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