To date, which is difficult, as fast as this situation is moving. This hearing today is intended to assess the geopolitical and humanitarian impact of turkeys crossborder attack on u. S. Interests in the middle east, determined how best to salvage u. S. Interests moving forward and evaluate the state of u. S. turkey relations. Before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, its important to recall the path that brought us here. To begin, the Syrian Civil War is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u. S. , nato allies, and other entities. Over the course of this eightyearlong conflict, syrias brutal dictator, ai bar shal ai said, with the support of russia and iran, has relentlessly bombed cities and towns across syria, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and leaving over 10 Million People displaced. We are all aware that many confirmed uses of chemical weapons by the russiabacked assad regime, adding to the humanitarian suffering in violations of
Period. In china he was born with a feudal empire which hasnt really changed for 2000 years. When he left, when he died it was a major power. A member of the u. N. Security council with satellites, with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and nuclear weapons. Cspan how long have you spent in china . Guest i first went to china 90 and 77. I open their office and then i have been back for periods of up to a couple of months pretty regularly. Almost every year for the last decade or so, less often in the previous 10 years. Cspan this is a big low, close to 800 pages. Guest its not supposed to seem like that. Cspan is their new material in there . Guest oh yeah three of the is there has not been a new tiger field mouse for 20 years. The last one, the last major biography was in 1980 and over the last 20 years, so much has emerged. Facts, documents, memoirs by people who were around mao. Huge areas which we didnt really understand our winter stood wrongly are now much more clear. Its possib
There is some Movement Donald Trump is still leading a survey put out every day bit South Carolina gop house caucus but marco rubio is climbing since governor nikki haley endorsed him earlier this week up almost three points b since yesterday but still in third place. Meanwhile jeb bush dropped several points more than 3500 potential vetters interstate were poled. So today that many with another mad dash the last pitch. The polls open in nine hours and if you havent made up your mind just yet, the candidates were trying to reach you today. Our Leah Holloway in the studio with more. Reporter republican candidates went the extra mile today convincing the late deciding voters before the primary on saturday. After governor nikki haleys decision to endorse marco rubio, well, this could be a game changer who will be the republican nominee for president. Were excited. Hours away but youre starting to vet here. Reporter republican candidates passed through the palmetto state friday making last
Headlines. The president kicking off the national day of Service Today volunteering at a school here in the d. C. Area. The first family and 500 volunteers joined him. Tomorrow president obama will take the oath of office in a private white house ceremony. Monday, hundreds of thousands are expected as he takes the oath on the capitol steps. Former president s clinton and carter will be present at that ceremony monday. Not attending former president george h. W. Bush and his father, former president bush, the younger bush staying at home because his father is sick. The president was just released from the hospital after an extended illness. Also today a Big Development on the debt limit. A vote is scheduled for next week and well dig in to those details later in the show. First, though, the stars are coming out for that national day of service that we just mention mentioned. Eva longoria who is an inaugural committee cochair. And Chelsea Clinton were one of the first speakers at the eve
President hamid karzai is requesting them pull out within two weeks. The reason plus how officials are responding. Stewart 33. And that fiery nascar crash leaving questions about the safety of speedways. A lot of news coming out of daytona today. We will take you there, as well. But we begin with our top political headlines. There could be a deal in the senate on guns. A Bipartisan Panel may Reach Agreement on tougher background checks for gun buyers. The Washington Post reports the talks led by two democrats and two republicans are expected to earn more gop spurt in the coming days. The nras president said the president has done nothing serious to reduce the threat of gun violence. Even in his state of the Union Address where he laid out his second term agenda, president obama made not one mention, not one word of the need to improve security for our schools. Why . Because theyre not serious about taking steps that actually work. And ann and mitt romney will sit down for their First T