President obama, who fought congressional involvement aggressively for months, now says he will support the measure. Fact is with a vetoproof majority in the senate he likely had will little choice. Joining me the lawmakers that crafted that compromise Senate Foreign Committee Relations chair bob corker and senator ben cardin. Thanks for taking the time this sunday morning. In his press conference on friday the president , we were listening very closely, at a minimum did not give an explicit commitment to the phased removal of sanctions on iran. And this had been to this point a commitment from the president. He used the language lessened but didnt talk about it being phased in. Is the president in your view capitulating to iran on this issue . Well, jim, its hard to know. One of the things that people may not know is that four times over the course of the last since 2010, congress has put in sanctions. We put them in place. But with that we gave the president whats called a National S
July 2013 giving a sermon. He may have been killed in a russian air strike last month. Cnn correspondent diana magnay live in moscow with the breaking details. What are Russian Media saying about this may 28th air strike, and what kind of evidence are they giving to support the notion that they have killed this guy . Reporter christine, at the moment, it is russian state media who say that the Defense Ministry is investigating information that al baghdadi was killed in a may 28th russian air strike in the Southern Suburbs of raqqah. The information theyre getting is that he was attending a meeting at a command post there with various other isis personnel, trying to work out how to get isis fighters out of the city of raqqah, which, of course, is being squeezed, both by russian and Syrian Forces and by the coalition, and that he may have been killed alongside others in a russian air strike on may 28th. Now, of course, we have heard in the past reports that al baghdadi has been killed, s
What we know is every time they get one of the reports, they proceed by looking at social media and communications intercepts and telephone intercepts to see if there is communication that al bagdadi has in fact been killed. They will look for that. They dont have that right now. Will the russians have a boedy o show the world . That would be the actual evidence that would be most confirming. As to where al bagdadi may be. The key calculation the u. S. Is looking at for the past several weeks. Was al bagdadi in raqqah when the city was surrounded by u. S. And rebel forces . Did he stay in the location he felt comfortable with his security on did he make a move . I want to put up a map and show everyone. This area southeast of raqqah from deir essor to al mayadin. This is an area they are looking at for a number of reasons. They talked about large numbers of isis fighters moved into the area southeast of raqqah. The leadership is there. They are not saying al bagdadi, but isis leadershi
Helped him obtain and he laughed, knowing i was referring to his many appearances here with me during the campaign when he was the rnc chief spokesman and strategy. We seem to have a good rap pore, even when the exchanges were animated and the challenged the partisan response to the russian hack got a little heated. But the New York Times wrote the rnc had been hacked how do you know its false . Because i work we work with intelligence agencies, dont make excuses for them. They did when they came im not making excuses for anybody. Michael i need ask an additional question. Hold on. Michael im also concerned. Im outraged. I dont think any foreign entity or individual or entity why dont you say that . Why didnt trump say it. Im saying it michael, i just said it. That was december 10 and i knew that spicer was happy with the outcome because the rnc soon tweeted a transcript. And he texted me afterwards to make sure there were no hard feelings, there were not. Later that same day he attend
Im ana cabrera. New action and unity from congress the goal punish russia for meddling in the election. If passed, it would give congress unprecedented ability to block the Trump Administration from easing sanctions on russia. The white house had initially opposed a key section of this bill that would limit the president s ability to ability unilaterally on the sanctions. We dont often hear these words bipartisan agreement and congress in the same sentence. Whats next for this bill . Tell us about it. Reporter thats right. House and Senate Negotiators came to an agreement this morning on a bill that would place new sanctions on russia in response to their meddling in the 2016 president ial election. And their military aggression in the ukraine and syria. Now, according to House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthys schedule, this bill could come to a vote as soon as tuesday. It would go to the senate after that and could hit trumps desk before august. So the bill would block President Trump