because speaker ryan has made it clear he wants to get rid of that, or anything going forward. if they are going to turn out the lights and cut the american people out, you re darned right, we re going to use social media and any effort we need to make sure that the american people are brought in. let me ask you to switch gears for a little bit and talk to you about something. i know you sit on the house select committee on intelligence. i would like to get your reaction to something that senator john mccain said while he was in estonia, talking about russian hacking. take a listen to this. there s no doubt that the russians were hacking. but there is doubt, whether it had any effect on the outcome of the election. there is no evidence right now that that, indeed, that russian cyberattacks had a leaking of information, had any tangible effect on the outcome of the american election. congressman, what s your response to that? you agree with that assessment? what i believe is t
of those american bases? yeah, that s already a pretty severe sticking point between the two countries. yeah. particularly the people of okinawa, who also look, i think, at the government in tokyo, as nothing being entirely on their side. so i think okinawa would remain a sticking point, no matter who had been elected president. okay, let me play you that sound bite now from chris matthews and donald trump. take a listen. doesn t want a nuclear weapon. of course, why should they. do you want them to have a nuclear weapon? wait a minute you said south korea and japan maybhang developed their own nuclear weapon capability? no, what i said is, i ll keep it the way it is, but they have to pay their fair share. as you said, it seems to create a little bit of animosity between the united states and a very close ally. a slight there that japan is not carrying its fair share in weight in terms of the defense arrangements in asia pacific.
prime minister abe spoke first. he offers condolences for the lives lost, but he did not apologize. he did make a vow, though, that his country says never to repeat the horrors of war. and ultimately, he ended up saying that the u.s. came to japan s rescue once it was over. he talked for about 16 minutes. president obama spoke for about the same time. he talked about what it probably was like that day, before the bombs started dropping. he talked about the young men who were full of hopes and dreams, whose lives were cut short. and he also talked about how america came of age in this war. you know, the one thing both men reiterated was how both countries were really tested in this war, but how both of them have found strength now in reconciliation. ayman? all right, tammy leitner there with that report. thank you very much, tammy, for it. joining me now, pulitzer prize winning reporter and author of countdown to pearl harbor: the 12 days to the
trump? that is a message to trump. it s not again, i don t think it s personal. i think, you know, obama s taken the high road for eight years. and his hope was to bring the country together. i actually had a meeting with him and told him how tough the republicans were going to be and how he had no interest in that and he didn t believe me. that s what he got elected for. by those zillions of young people who went out to vote for him, so enthusiastically. this is what he wants to say on the way out, and try to remind us, this is how we have to get along. if the politicians don t want to get along and use this kind of rhetoric that trump uses, that s fine, if you can t do anything about it, but those of us in the trenches can get along with each other and should make an effort to do so. our visions are different but there are compromises that can be made. let me ask both of you, since you re both political veterans of the game, on a different note, president obama telling david ax
official, ayman, there s going to be a strong rebuttal of what you ve been hearing from netanyahu and from israeli officials. secretary kerry is going to speak to what he calls a disturbing trends on the grounds, eroding the chance of a two-state solution. obviously, he means settlements, the expansion of settlements, which simultaneously are going to be announced by the interior officials and home officials in jerusalem tomorrow. he will candidly, and that is a diplomatic term for very frankly and bluntly, lay out what they claim are misleading claims emerging in recent days, from israel, that, first of all, the u.n. abstention was unprecedented, and historically, it was not unprecedented. there have been other abstentions by the united states at the u.n. in resolutions regarding israel. that, in fact, there was a hand by this administration in drafting the resolution that they will deny that.