Come to light. Democrats were promising a new direction for the war, and to make their case theyd just nominated a decorated war veteran to be their nominee, a man whod been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor in combat. Thank you im im john kerry, and im reporting for duty senator john kerry made his Military Service in vietnam a central part of his campaign for president that year. In the weeks after he accepted the democratic nomination, kerry consistently led the incumbent, president george w. Bush, in the but then in august everything changed. In that was when these campaign ads startedca airing. I served with john kerry. I served with john kerry. John kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. He is lying about his record. Its a central image of john kerrysl campaign, the candida literally wrapping his arms around his vietnam teammates. Now republicans are challenging kerrys war effort with a tv ad featuring other Vietnam Vet
you still believe them to be true? yeah, of course they ll sue me again when i say that, but yeah i do. they want me to lie. basically they re suing me in order to lie to them. i m sorry, i can t do it. and the most important thing it doesn t have to be absolutely true. it has to be supportable. they have to prove i was deliberately lying, which i wasn t. rudy giuliani continue said to standby his lies about two former election workers from the state of georgia just days after a federal jury decided he must pay the women $148 million. but those women aren t done yet with the former new york city mayor. plus an update on the biden administration s push for a scaled back israeli offensive in gaza. it comes as israeli officials say they are considering what the next phase of the war will look like. and also ahead, we ll explain how trump administration immigration policies are playing a large role in ongoing negotiations over foreign aid. good morning and welcome to w
Them from what he s going to do to do tomorrow. what president trump was getting out of it, i don t know. and i ll just note it s very striking to me, we re not at that table. we don t have a representative in sochi today with respect to the transition plan for syria. peter baker how does putin hear trump and how do other governments hear trump when he advanced that readout of his conversation about insulting putin over these repeated denials that he meddled in our election? well, certainly encourages president putin to continue them. he sees an interlockter, a partner, who s buying his story. therefore he s encouraged to keep it up. it was striking, and ambassador mcfall was getting at this, how much president putin is the driving force in what s going on today in the middle east.
Hear trump and how do other governments hear trump when he advanced that readout of his conversation about insulting putin over these repeated denials that he meddled in our election? well, certainly encourages president putin to continue them. he sees an interlockter, a partner, who s buying his story. therefore he s encouraged to keep it up. it was striking, and ambassador mcfall was getting at this, how much president putin is the driving force in what s going on today in the middle east. america has, to some extent, pulled back. that s not entirely just president trump. there was some of that arguably under president obama in the
Press knew. so the differenner isn t in que, the questions are over the conversation with putin. why didn t we hear about this second conversation with president trump and putin sooner? right, the dinner wasn t secret was traveling with the president that night and was sitting outside in tthe hall wh the meeting occurred, that s not the issue here. the president essentially had a one on one with putin that we can t independently verify what was said or what kind of information was exchanged. the only account that we have of this meeting of what the president told his own aids. you know, i think the other issue is that this is a president who has no other kind of diplomatic experience, he has no political experience. and by contrast, vladimir putin is known to be a very very scaled interlockter in a moment