Its pm in london, 7am in singapore and 6pm in washington, where President Trump is dealing with a major setback to his agenda. His Republican Party has lost a key election in deeply conservative alabama. Mr trump backed the losing candidate, roy moore, despite claims of Sexual Misconduct against him. It leaves the president weakened as he tries to drive through key policies at home and abroad. Our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. Amidst all the noise and rage of american politics, its worth remembering elections are often decided in quiet suburbs. That was true in alabama, where moderate republicans didnt turn out for their partys radical, scandal hit candidate, and where many dont much like donald trump either. Its a rejection of donald trump. Tracy james is a lifelong republican, who yesterday went democrat. It was also a protest vote against the president. I do think donald trump has a problem in the republican suburbs. You dont know whats going to come out of his mo
Its iam in london, 9am in singapore and 8pm in washington, where President Trump is dealing with a major setback to his agenda. His Republican Party has lost a key election in deeply conservative alabama. Mr trump backed the losing candidate, roy moore, despite claims of Sexual Misconduct against him. It leaves the president weakened as he tries to drive through key policies at home and abroad. Our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. Amidst all the noise and rage of american politics, its worth remembering elections are often decided in quiet suburbs. That was true in alabama, where moderate republicans didnt turn out for their partys radical, scandal hit candidate, and where many dont much like donald trump either. Its a rejection of donald trump. Tracy james is a lifelong republican, who yesterday went democrat. It was also a protest vote against the president. I do think donald trump has a problem in the republican suburbs. You dont know whats going to come out of his m
A lot of people were praying for them. A lot of people were. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with heart of darkness. Reporter they lay in wait, unseen under a thick green canopy, armed to the teeth. Immersed in their defiant extremist belief, hunting, stalking, deadly, in this particular heart of darkness. It was the summer of 2011, a jungleclad island in the southern tip of the philippines where they prepared the place. And the news of the terrible deed committed here flashed halfway around the world and came crashing down, out of nowhere, on a modest workingclass family in lynchburg, virginia. I got a phone call from my mother. The first thing she said was gerfa and kevin were kidnapped in the philippines. Reporter kidnapped . Sherry hutter tried to wrap her head around the inconceivable. Gerfa was her aunt. Kevin, gerfas 14yearold son. They were due home from a philippine vacation. Instead, they were in the clutches of something horrific. I felt like i was
Them in places in the country where they would be much less likely to be engaged, but if they were engaged there were not only have the right to defend themselves, my themselves my presumption would be re would assist in. Is that a fair estimate . That is my feeling. It is what i said. I think we have an obligation to do so. I do not expect that occasions arise anytime soon. To get to the chairmans. And the very first vetting the thing, mr. Chairman that made the number so small, and i said the i said the number 60 and can look at your faces. The same reaction i do. Why is that number so small. The reason for that has to do with the criteria we applied. Some of this is the law to these recruits. We do counterintelligence screening. We make sure that for example they arent going to pose a green on blue threat to the trainers that they dont have any history of atrocities. These are all things that are required of us. Theyre willing to engage in the campaign in a way that is compliant wit
Uniform to the Veterans Administration is as seamless as possible and i think we owe them that. One last question general. Your predecessor, general dempsey, stated repeatedly, and i am quoting we have the capability to use a military option if the iranians choose to stray off the diplomatic path end quote. My question to you is are you satisfied our nation has done enough to prepare militarily for the option and the president has said all options should be on the table if necessary to use a military option there as much as we all may wish that the negotiations should succeed. Senator, my understanding today is that we have both the plans in place and the capability in place to deal with a wide range of things in iran. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman and general. Congratulations on your nomination and thank you for your 38 years of distinguished service and your leadership. Our nation is fortunate to have a military leader such as you serving at a time in great peril. I wa