They are young and they have a smile on their lives and a song in their hearts. Tom unlike friday, on a cynical surveillance. Vonnie Angela Merkel is stamping out any optimism of a solution to the greek crisis. She met late in the night with leaders of greece and france. Merkel says there is a lot to do before that can happen. Angela merkel i will have some bilateral talks and have already spoken last night with the french president and the greek Prime Minister. It was a friendly, constructive exchange, but it is clear further work between the institutions is necessary. Vonnie merkel is referring to the imf, the ecb, and the european commission. President obama says the u. S. And its allies are not losing the fight against Islamic State but he says more needs to be done to help iraq. He told the atlantic several days after he told that to the atlantic several days after ramadi was captured by isys. By isis. Maybe this is a prediction but i say it with full confidence. The president wil
From atlanta and the Prime Minister of israel is in the nations capital, washington d. C. For what is the most controversial visits of a head of state to our nation in quite a while. Let me bring in elise labott and traveled to washington d. C. And joins me on the line. Elise, you spent 12 hours on the plane with Benjamin Netanyahu. What was he like . What was he doing . Joo he reporter joohe was working on that speech the entire time. We were finding whether there was symbolism in the movies we were watching. We watched the imitation game which as you know is the awardwinning story of the genius that will crack that nazi code and save Hitler Europe from hitler and indeed the Prime Minister does see himself as making this kind of lastditch effort as churchill, the former british Prime Minister did in 1939 warning about the nazis. You know i talked to israeli analysts and they say he sees himself faded in that way and we were talking in the back the journalist aides came back and talked
Her father was known for antisemitism, and she, herself, has had to denounce that, and she has done so. However she has taken up a different kind of extremism, and that is the islamic phobic extremism and it is very, very ugly and difficultco political and cross currents here but certainly the president Francois Hollande wants to come to pay the nirespects, and speak to theq jewish leaders and try toe1 assure them that france is a place that the jews can live in peace, because the evidence over the last years and months have shown that there kst a spike in the antijewish attacks. It is interesting when you were speaking to simone of the Jewish Community in paris, while she cannot advice theok jewish commune community to do, she says she and her children will stay and fight this wave. Lp a very, very defiant statement, and one that is admirable as with well. France has had a complicated relationshipco with the Jewish Community and one of thee1 first moves after theni frenche1co revoluti
end of the week. the transportation secretary says you have nothing to worry about when you fly. i ll be speaking to him later on american morning. president obama turns 50 today. he qualifies for a free scoop at baskin-robbins. and he got a surprise in chicago happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday jennifer hudson much better singer than rahm emanuel. 26 seconds of the president s comedic stylings. it s true, that i turn 50 tomorrow. which means by the time i wake up i ll have an e-mail from aarp. asking me to call president obama and tell him to protect medicare. funny, yet topical. some supporters paid nearly $36,000 for dinner. hoe they got a lot of free refills. if you re planning a trip to the caribbean, there s trouble in paradise, named tropical storm emily. it s slamming haiti with dangerous rains right now. warnings in effect for the dominican republic, parts of the bahamas and the turks and caicos islands. southeast florida