didn t win. a lot of people assume hillary clinton is going to win in 2016. they re not going to make that same mistake. daniel, we ll talk with you about the president s twitter guru. it new today, more evacuatio amid tensions in the persian gulf. exxonmobil is the latest to remove ststaff, 60 from their active oil fields and the government of bahrain is ordering citizens to leave iraq and c iran. iran s top didn t is disminutesing the conflict saying, they do not want war. ali, where do we stand today? are there obvious signs the tensions are de-deescalating? reporter: good morning. tensions in the middle east, ebbs and flows on a moment to moment basis. in the last day or two
to try and get that done. and the president was celebrating that on his 100th day in office a year ago. the president s out today talking to other constituents in another big manufacturing state. and i think that s important for the president. he gets to decide where he wants to be. but there s many members of the white house tstaff here tonight. probably all the members are here tonight. there are a lot. i spoke to your former colleague, reince priebus earli earlier. he said he thinks there s a chance the president might attend it next year. do you share that? i think there s definitely a chance. i know he went to the gridiron dinner this year and had a good time. so maybe next year. how has life been for you out of the white house? you left over a few months ago after the president did impose e tariffs. i think i ve bn gone about three and a half weeks now and i m just sort of getting my bearings right now. ve taken someime off. went on a vacation.
administration finishes his work this way. serge lavrov recommending putin expel 35 american diplomats from russia after 35 russian spies were ordered to leave the u.s. by this weekend. translator: we cannot let such escapades happen without a response. the russian foreign ministry, together with colleagues from other departments, have made a proposal to declare 31 tstaff from the embassy of moscow as pena nongrata. reporter: president putin said in a statement, we will not create problems for american diplomats. we will not send anyone away. with a stroke of drama, putin even issued this invitation to american children, in response to the new u.s. sanctions, i invite all children of the u.s. diplomats to the new year and christmas children s show at the
in july, 2011, and that just seems contradictory. general mccaffrey, we saw a very strong statement from mike mullen and bob gates earlier. earlier in this hour, about what this means, what the what general mcchrystal s comments and the comments he tolerated from his tstaff meant in rollig stone in terms of code of conduct and morale and leadership to the troops. what signal was he trying to send to the men and women of the armed forces? well, i think one signal was the secretary of defense and the chairman of the jcs, mike mul n mullen, are stable, thoughtful, experienced people and, you know, by the way, andrea, i was around in uniform for 32 years. i never heard that kind of conversation. during the clinton administration there was a lot of anger at the president, during the bush 43 administration, a lot of anger, but i never saw generals who would tolerate that kind of
wall street bankers. that s a fight harry reid, the president and a fight the democrats are confident they can win. 24 hours we were saying the gop seems to have softened their stance. they might have gotten clarification they needed on that $50 billion fund. it seemed like things were going in the right direction. it turned on a dime. that s washington these days. you think you have a deal and it falls at the last minute. senator dodd and tstaff will be negotiating into the middle of the night. they will burn the midnight oil to try to come up with a compromise. that being said, if there s not one republican going forward with us, they really do look like they are the party of goldman sachs. democrats will take that all the way to the bank in november they feel. all right. luke russert. thanks. good to have you. here is an interesting one. internet porn has entered into