My topic today is serious which presents one of most issuesl Foreign Policy we face. It lies to a heart critical to u. S. Security, a friend that is a place that is home to friends and partners. It is important because the Syrian Regime possesses chemical weapons that we cannot allow to fall into terrorist hands. It is important because the regime is collaborating with lockstep with in hezbollah. Syria is important because its people in seeking freedom and dignity has suffered unimaginable horrors. I also recognize how ambivalent americans are about the situation there. On the one hand, we americans share a desire, after two wars which have taken 6700 american lives and cost over 1 trillion, to invest taxpayer dollars in american schools and infrastructure. On the other hand, americans have heard the president s commitment that this will not iraq, this will not be afghanistan any use of force will be limited and tailored narrowly to the chemical weapons threat. On the one hand, we shar
I can understand how aggressive theyve gotten in certain areas. The trip to moscow worries me because there are serious things happening in that relationship that would not have happened were it not for the absolute collapse of faith in the United States, and while there may be good things that can come out of it for the saudis to be off on their own, a lot of bad things can come out of that as well potentially. But that is the kind of uncertainty that we are dealing with in the system that i think has led to quite a bit of trouble. I agree in the first place that syria now takes on this huge importance in terms of trying to convince the iranians that we are serious. I think that operation is now going to need to be something that perhaps the president and his team did not think a couple of weeks ago it might have needed to be. It will now need to have real effects on syria and on other adversaries in the region, that they do not want to test the United States in this regard. I do not
Up well before the sun came up today. As Elissa Harrington shows us some bay area bargain hunters were disappointed before dawn instead of getting deals. Reporter reporter and theyre off black friday shoppers got started a full day early this year. A slew of Stores Opened thursday. Kmart in san mateo let customers in at 6 a. M. But deal seekers started lining up in the cold the night before. 10 00 last night. The firstget the deals for christmas all for the family. Reporter the hot ticket items electronics. Tvs, computers, xboxest, you name it. Reporter hundreds at kmart waited hours for this tv a 32 plasma for 97. But the mad rush to the Electronics Section was a big disappointment for many shoppers. Only 10 of those tvs were given out. Im upset because i stayed up all night to come here. Theres a limited supply as always in any store. Reporter so store workers gave out vouchers to the first 10 people in line. Leaving emptyhanded. Thats what i came for was a tv. Reporter other stores
You can get somebody to drive. Special report coming up . It is. Special report coming up. Happy thanksgiving, everybody. Live from americas news headquarters in washington, i d ferguson are giving thanks for a relyatively quiet day following the grand jurys decision not to indict the white Police Officer in the death of an africanamerican man. And more than a thousand miles away, at least 145 demonstrate tors were arrested in los angeles. And six arrests were reported today at the macys thanksgiving day parade in morning. D six arr today at the macys thanksgiving day parade in morning. There is progress in developing a vaccine for ebola. A study in the new england journal of medicine says some of the first 20 volunteers to test it developed antibodies within four week of getting the shots. Those with high are dose ages produced more. No serious side effects were reported. The current outbreak in west africa has killed more than 5600 people. Thousands of peoples in the northeast are ce
A new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kissandtell. Its a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prizewinning columnist. Or maybe its more than that. Are you decoding my book . I am decoding it right now. Like its entirely about me. [ laughs ] but its all written in hieroglyphics. Well, its not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. Lets start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. And in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. Marcel krauthammer died of cancer. He was 59. Charles writes this about his older brother. He taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. He taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. And how we played. It was paradise. Tell me about that. It was a paradisiacal childhood. My brother and i were inseparable. He was four years older, which is