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great to see you. thanks for assembling here locally today. come to the state department. we ask you here to provide you with some new information on the six year crisis in syria. i m joined today by acting assistant secretary for the bureau of middle eastern affairs , stuart jones. he s recently turned from the talks. he ll give us an update and provide us with newly declassified information on syria today. last week secretary tillerson met with russian foreign minister for more than an hour here in washington. you ve read the readout from that meeting. i like to provide some additional context and details coming out of that meeting today secretary tillerson was firm and clear with the minister. russia holds tremendous insolence over president assad. a key point that turned in the bilateral meeting was telling russia to use his power to reign in the regime. complete but, the killing and devastation has gone on for far too long in syria. minister was clear as well that ....
it were to pass, this could pose a very dangerous threat to our relationship with saudi arabia at a time when the iranians are now have achieved a peninsula all the way across from baghdad to from tehran all the way to baghdad and there s no doubt that the iranians have continued their ie agreesive their aggressive behavior. and if we voted down this arms sale to saudi arabia, it would have a devastating effect on our standing in the middle east and long-term impact on our ability to counter what is clearly iranian aggressive behavior. so i urge my colleagues i strongly urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham: i d like to join with senator mccain very quickly. 71, 27, september 21 last year we voted to approve tank sales to saudi arabia because they need more weapons and equipment to counter the iranian aggression in yemen and other places. most of the people ....
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look at that guy. he did not work on his hair that long to go on the radio. [ laughter ] he probably can t reach orgasm without at least two cameras on him. [ laughter ] look at him. he s like a televangelist without the humility. ladies and gentlemen, the mooch! [ cheers and applause ] white house give it up for the mooch! white house communications director anthony scaramucci reportedly told his staff today, quote, you re either going to stop leaking, or you re going to get fired. replied the leaker, you can t fire me, i m the president. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] the girl scouts have announced that they will offer 23 new badges focused on science, technology, engineering and math, while the boy scouts have announced they re just going to lay low for a while. [ laughter ] president trump spoke yesterday at the boy scout jamboree and bragged about his election victory over hillary clinton. and every scout in attendance earned the merit badge for eye rol ....
inflation market based measures of inflation compensation remain low. this was a unanimous decision not to change interest rates, but the key headline is that the fed is going to begin unwinding balance sheet, quote, relatively soon. back to you. adam, thank you very much. okay, so if you re just joining us, the fed out with decision on interest rates and leaving them as they were, unchanged, but, of course, they ve got a lot of work to do in front of them to work off the $4.5 trillion balance sheet. joining me with thoughts on all of it as we watch a market higher. 97 points, bgc senior partner steve cortes along with our own nicole petallides. we re waiting on the white house, everyone, they re going to have a press conference here. you re looking at the live feet to us, at 2:00, with sarah huckabee sanders, don t forget anthony scaramucci saying the cameras are back on as long as he has hair and makeup. so we ll be watching for all of this. big news day out of the ....