Candidate Bernie Sanders posts a town hall at Clinton College in rock hill, south carolina. Watch it on cspan, cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Welcome back to the table congressman buddy carter, republican of georgia. I want to get your reaction to President Trump deciding and then reversing himself to strike iran. What is your reaction to that decision by the president , and to do you think he needs get congressional approval for any strike . Guest it shows great restraint on the part of the president. He should be applauded for that. It would have been easy to have a kneejerk reaction and think, we are going to bomb them, but the president showed restraint. We dont understand all the details of what happened, why it was called and then called off, if indeed that was the case. Nevertheless, the president is to be applauded for how he is handling the situation thus far. At this point, i dont think its necessary for the president to have congressional consent on what
Changed his mind. From there reporting, a little more this morning. Officials said the president initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets. The operation was underway in the early stages when it was called off according to a Senior Administration official. Planes were in the air and ships in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. Reuters is reporting overnight this is what happened according to the headline. Tehran received a message from President Trump warning attacks were imminent. Also from reuters, iran told the United States via the swift ambassador that washington will washington for former had no here is how the president sounded yesterday midday in the oval office before a meeting he had with the canadian Prime Minister on irans bringing down that u. S. Spy drone. Here is how he sounded at this point yesterday. [video clip] when i came here, iran was in 14, 18 different sites of confliction, extremely hostile. They were screamin
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ian now setting its sites on the south carolina coast, as we come on the air, with the tropical storm expected to strengthen back into a hurricane as it moves, look at it there, very slowly across the atlantic and back towards the east coast, after a trail of destruction in florida. people there are reeling now from one of the worst storms that has ever hit them, and doing what they can to start picking up the pieces. sanibel island, captiva island, a storm surge, with a huge chunk of the causeway there, that is the only way in or out, in a state overall, more than two and a half million people are without power and look at where that deep red is, some counties in southwest florida are totally we re live with officials, from across florida, as well as somebody from part of the federal response to this storm. cabinet secretary, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, hallie jackson in washington and we have the team covering every angle, and every location, and steve p
Floridas gulf coast. Plus, the firing of james comey, called the biggest mistake in modern political history. What you did not see in the interview on last nights 60 minutes. Now, a look at todays eye this is truly an eye wall, full force of force. Tropical storm irma marches through florida. Were still getting heavy conditions here. Even though irmas now downgraded to a Tropical Storm, dont sort of let your guard down. Irma has spared virtually no one. There is flooding and extensive Property Damage but it will take days to understand the full impact. Now is not the time to return just yet. Theyve got a big cleanup effort under way. President trump has approved a major disaster declaration for the entire state of florida. This is a big monster. I think were very well coordinated. September 11th, 16 years later. We remember what happened to the families who continue to grieve to this day. Someone said you described the firing of james comey as the biggest mistake in political history.