about for the present is necessary to confront the challenges that lie ahead. 3550 shootings in chicago last year, bret. out of that, 762 homicides, more than new york and los angeles combined. bret. bret: at the white house briefing room. kevin, thank you. most members of the u.s. military taking part in a survey about president obama have an unfavorable view of the departing president. a poll published by the military times indicates just 18% of those questions have a very favorable opinion of the president. about the same percentage said to somewhat favorable, 12% are neutral. 22.5% are somewhat unfavorable, and 29%, as you see, very unfavorable. former president obama will be former at the time that he takes his traditional final plane trip on the plane serving as air force one, shortly after the
before i recognize senator corker, let me thank you on behalf of the committee for all you have done through your long and illustrious career here in the senate and in the chairmanship of this committee, and in anticipation of your confirmation by the full senate, i wish you good luck and godspeed on the many journeys that lie ahead, and we will look forward to having a close working relationship with you as the next secretary of state. let me now recognize senator corker, the ranking member for his comments. thank you, mr. chairman, and thank our very distinguished guests who are going to introduce the chairman in just a moment. i want to say to the chairman, i want to thank you for your courtesy over the last six years, as i have served on this committee. i look at you and being nominated for this as someone who has almost lived their entire life, if you will, for this moment of being able to serve in this capacity. there s no one in the united states senate that has spent more tim
bush did. this is a gradual scale down of the war. we are out of there because we could not get the immunity for our troops. this was the bush timeline. we continue stay even if president obama wanted us to. we continue get immunity to protect our forces from possible legal action. jon: rich, focusing on the coverage, again the media seemed to be stressing the uncertainties that lie ahead, and the constant arguments that this war created. jon, i think that is appropriate. obviously it was a devisive war and i think the hand wringing unfortunately is appropriate. we are going to have an argument over this war whether it was misconceived from the beginning or thrown away at the end of the i tend to agree with the latter. i really fear the consequences of what we re going to see in iraq. our continued presence there, even at a much reduced level was
well is no longer a threat, sound like a political mopup operation to st. bernard parish president. is it possible that people along the gulf coast are just so weary and beaten up that it is difficult to believe their own eyes? no, i don t think so. we believe what we see. that s why we con to have some concerns. reporter: he goes out every day to capture images of the oil rolling into his parish. in part to convince bp the cleanup operations are sorely needed. bp says well, guys, we don t need you anymore, that puts us that puts us in a position of having an entire part of our community in no-man s land. reporter: no-man s land because commercial fishermen could end up stuck with no cleanup work and no markets for their seafood. it is no wonder lewis wear it is fisherman s prayer around his neck. continue to give us hope and courage, face the challenge that lie ahead, and reminding us
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