And when people say, well that doesnt necessarily make him a good candidate for secretary of defense, i will tell you who thinks that makes him a good candidate for secretary of defense, the men and women in the armed forces of the United States and their parents who know that this is a guy who will be very careful about putting their lives at risk, cause he put his life at risk. He know what is war is and he will fight a wars if thes necessary but a guy that will do it with great deliberation and care. Beyond that he went back to nebraska, ran for senate. Became a senator. Said he would only serve two terms. Only served two terms. And when he was elected the second time, he was elected with 83 of the vote. This is a guy respected by his fellow citizens of nebraska. Served here for a total of 12 years. And what did he do when he left the senate . He came became an ac testimony knick georgetown, school of foreign service, teaching the new leaders. He also has been cochairman of the pres
Negotiation. We have been ready to negotiate under the right set of circumstances with iran for the last several years with our friends and allies so, force is the table but im glad we have people like the president and like chuck hagel who will be very careful when you start throwing around the terms he says its not feasible. Do you agree it is not feasible. What is the not feasible . Military option . Military option is always feasible, you tell me what the option is. Are we going to blow up tehran or go after facilities that might be well protoerktd hidden . And i think bob gates, the previous secretary of defense, who pointed out the difficulty of striking these places is a real one. So any military option is feasible in terms of dropping bombs but what is the result of that military attack . With respect to the revolutionary guard, he has reasons for why he didnt go along with that resolution at the time and that will be explored in the confirmation hearings. The last three weeks,
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Region. We might see snow on the back side of it, but its really the northeast and that is about to get pounded. If anyone had plans to travel up to new england this week, they have to reconsider. And they have to take this very issue very seriously. All the models are comng in ine on this storm and there is going to be a storm and there is no doubt about it. The question is, who is going to get the two and three feet amount of snow and high winds. Listen. For one thig, what can picture thing, what can we expect . This is not going to be our storm. Were not talking about blizzard conditions or several inches of snow out there, okay. It looks like a close call for d. C. And the metro area, this thing merges and becomes a big storm, sue used the word epic, and by the time we get through this saturday afternoon, that is what people are going to call it and that is going to be to the north of us. Most of this precip will stay to the east of us tomorrow and tomorrow evening. Now, were going
Depths of crisis. It has been one week, since the killing of george floyd, the protest sparked by that egregious injustice. This is the 69 in denver, to take one city, over 20 major american city, officials placed a curfew tonight on their citizens. The nation is in ang wish. We are, of course, still in the midst of a pandemic that killed 105,000 and counting of our fellow american, due in so small part to failure at the very top. We have an economy that has Great Depression level job losses, 40 of the poorest households in this nation, hit with job losses, 40 million out of work in just the past 10 weeks, 26 of the labor force. All of that ches happening before last week. Before the cold blooded killing of a black man by a white Police Officer with his knee on his neck. The eneraging cruelty, eight minutes, at the core of what set so Many Americans off into the streets. Listen for a moment to the pain in the voice of George Floyds brother. I am constantly seeing it. This is going to b