Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ambassador. Hes been a great friend forever, a great leader of the rjc and a man with enormous courage he cochaired my finance campaign when i ran against mario cuomo when no one thought i had a chance to win. To everyone here at the rjc thank you for what do you. You are a critical wing, element of the republican party. Let me be very blunt. Without you we dont win elections. Without you america wont become the great country it can be in the 21st century again when we win the presidency in 2016. [ applause ] i want to start this morning by commenting a little on the San Bernardino tragedy of yesterday. We dont know the circumstances yet for sure whether or not it involved terrorism or not. We do know it was a horrible, horrible planned assault. But let me tell you what else we do know. We do know that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by radical jihadists here in america. We do know that the ft. Hood massacre of our soldiers was carried out b
Out of control is killing fish and tourish. But first, its just 24 hours after the United States and russia have made a deal to bring syrias chemical weapons under International Control and then destroy them. John kerrys goal is to sell the idea to the rest of the world. Two country has major concerned about the fighting across the border, also a country suspected of having chemical weapons of his own, which hasnt rad fied the global treaty banning their use. We will be life in jerusalem in a moment, syria must submit a formal list of its stocks and locations within a week. Must be allowed to begin their work we november, the goal is to have eliminated all of syrias chemical weapons by the middle of next year. Simon mcgregor wood is in jerusalem. The first stop, jerusalem for mr. Kerry, why jerusalem fist . They are spoken hands. And according to the News Agencies which we will have to confirmed, that he said that he lucked the russian american deal as long as every last chemical weapo
People. Crews are trying to get the wreckage back upright. Its part of whats called americas suicide belt. Whats being done to help People Living in remote areas of montana get access to desperately needed Mental Health care. We begin this morning in colorado, where massive flooding has displaced more than 11,000 people. Now, nearly 1200 residents are still unaccounted for. Rains stalled rescue efforts on sunday, as helicopters were grounded, and other missions dealt with mud slides and flash floods. President obama ordered federal disaster aid for tin counties, including boulder, el paso and larmier. Many communities of underwater. The flooding swallowed cars, destroyed roadways and cut off access toshiest. Elizabeth vazquez walked seven miles to find trapped relatives. Just trying to get to may mom, my sister, my family to show them that i am there. I felt so helpless over here. So help less. Theyre without water, electricity, you know, i feel helpless. To approximate put the size of
Better or worse if they did this, the retaliation. And i thought the compelling remarks were the most powerful on the chemical weapons war fare. But having said that, he asked congress to postpone a vote, that if it were to be done today or in the next ten days, he would lose. In order to pursue a proposal by the russians, which i think is unlikely to work, but if it does work, it is going to give russia a boost in the region at the expense of the United States. And you know, the tone was just i mean, it is like he is the only president who cares about peace. He is the only president who cares about avoiding war. And he gratuitiously, and maybe im a little sensitive, having served in the administration. Taking a shot at his predecessor, that he had side lined the peoples representatives from the critical decisions on whether we use should use use of force. As i remember, in 2002 and 2001, the only president that has not gone to congress for the use of force was president obama himself
Attack that killed, according to the administration, over 1400 people, mostly women and children inside syria. But the president now finds himself in a very difficult position. This is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, someone that ran for president in 2008 saying you have to go to the u. N. , you have to get congressional authorization before you act militarily. Now standing alone on the world stage, pushing basically for unilateral u. S. Military action, the president seeing his reset with russia, now in tatters at the united nations, his ally not delivering on building a coalition yesterday. So the president stepped up today, started making his case. Said he hadnt made a final decision, but started to make a case for u. S. Military action and basically cast himself as a reluctant warrior. Take a listen. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale. This kind of attack threatens our