pandemic lockdowns that harmed children, closed businesses and churches even, the endless re-upping of emergency covid powers, the destruction of historical markers and status. the use of big tech as top defenseers for the cart regime, all of this, all of it points to one ugly inescapable conclusion. our government is being run by a kadri of powerful post-american forces. our current political leadership acts as though our constitution and the freedoms recollected by that constitution are no longer valid. there will always be a reason for them to ignore our constitution these days, like systemic racism, climate change or another covid vary gentleman, maybe gun violence, january 6th. and they won t explicitly say it, at least not yet, but they don t want us to live under a constitution that leaves the primary decision making to the people of the 50 states. nor do they want the designation american citizen to really have any special meeting at all for any of us. so we ll retain
about that in a moment. menendez is answer he would look into it. of course, you rebate was worried about these criminal investigations going on in new jersey wolf that could have implicated people that he was close to. so he told jurors what he did was he paid nadine menendez $15,000 so she could buy a brand new mercedes in exchange for the the senators influence. he then talks about another meeting at nadine menendez, his home, where he says he wrote down the names of people who were possibly implicated in this designation, put it on a piece of paper. he said senator menendez folded up the piece of paper, put it in his pocket, then in october of 2019, he says he got a call from senator menendez. he told jurors that he felt as though this situation had been resolved and he choked up. juror he choked up wolf as he was speaking about what had happened saying that this situation had been over, and he felt he was at peace then there was this dinner in 2020 where he says menendez
russia? is the possibility, yes. but you can think about that, ever. courtney colby, nbc news, dover airspace. our thanks to courtney qb for that report. russia s attempt to attack any trends but they believe is carrying weapons to ukraine, comes with president biden additional a second 33 billion dollars in military and humanitary aid for ukraine. at just a 67, russian forces continue to assault the southern and eastern flanks of the ukraine, as part of a massive military operation to seize the region. for more now, this we are joined by retired general lori robinson. united states pacific command air components, and pacific air forces commander. she was also the first female combatant commander. general, thank you for being here this morning. in courtney colby s piece, you saw all of that age. or was part of the aid looks. like that we are sending to ukraine. and president biden just requested an additional 33 billion dollars in military equipment and aid to send
parts that i saw they were bringing the hostages out. you re right, they look pretty in pretty bad shape. of course we know they were going to be executed so i m sure they were trying to get out of there. what i saw was an orderly withdraw of people out of there. this raid looks like it was done very well both by the kurds and the americans. i saw a lot of american activity there, so i m not sure how they were defining advise and assist. these guys looked like they were involved in that. i think it was well done and very orderly. you could tell from the video who was who in there, the americans versus the kudrds. we saw a lot of direct u.s. action here. after something like this happened, we heard from defense secretary ash carter saying a lot of intelligence is gathered in situations like this, documents, computer, et cetera, but what we don t see is what happens afterwards, particularly for these hostages. how are they returned to their families, what happens. what would be the u
what do you feel about the raid? kufl it was a success from what you understand of it now. and that b the campaign against isis is so far more successful than failure? certainly this raid looks like it was a success a. lot of the information we pulled out of there could be very value, the computers and other data that was recovered that s now being analyzed. this is going to be a long effort. isis is a terrible threat in that region as well as to american security. and we are going to be involved in a many-month if not longer effort. so we ve seen some gains from the recruitment of foreign fighters going down and their territory. but then we see things like this week where we end up losing some ground. i m encouraged by some of the progress we are making but we have a lot more work to do when it comes to eliminating this threat. let me move to the amtrak derailment. this week white house republicans have been criticizing white house democrats, for attempting to political size this