Soldiers. Likely next in the isis crosshairs irreplaceable an particular wifts. How palmyra rooms. This the second isis conquest this week. After fighters capture the iraqi city of ramadi a mere 70 miles from baghdad, washington sidelined a seemingly rudderless. Thats according to the u. S. General who led the International Security forces in afghanistan. Im not sure most americans or most people in the world are exactly sure what our strategy is, which means you have to define it in state. The wider issue, who is fighting against isis. We are. Wait a minute. Assad fighting against them. Obviously iranians helping government of iraq shia militia, United States is helping, some of the persian gulf countries are helping. But its a group of people. Napolean reported as saying when asked who he would like to fight, what opponent he said a coalition. Were not really a team on this. Lets talk more about this with Major General spider marks, senior military analyst. Welcome, sir. Hi, carol. G
Her doctor since 2001. It eessentially says that Hillary Clinton is fit to be president after it details a lot about her health. Probably the biggest concern is the concussion that she suffered in 2012. She had a fainting spell. She fell. She had a concussion and had a brain a blood clot between her brain and her skull, also known as a thrombosis. So what this statement reveals is that she had followup testing in 2013 and it revealed a complete resolution of the effects of the concussion as well as total dissolution of the blood clot. As a precaution and we knew this shes on daily blood thinners. We even learned which one shes on. Shes on the brand name for warfarin and weve learned that she has hypothyroidism. She has seasonal allergies. And then in addition just having had a regular physical examination, she had her most recent one march 21st. So thats about three weeks before she got into the race. Obviously gearing up for this process which does include a test for the fact that you
We begin this hour with another donald trump controversy. Hes once again distancing himself from some controversial comments. Accept this time they arent comments made by the billionaire front runner but a close adviser to his campaign. Heres our jeff zeleny with more. Reporter Donald Trumps president ial campaign weathered one storm after another. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. Reporter but a new controversy over offensive language is hitting closer to home. Whos doing the raping . Reporter tonight, as he keeps riding high in the polls, his team is trying to clean up another set of comments. This time it has nothing to do with illegal immigration but trumps own marriage. His longtime counsel and spokesman Michael Cohen is under fire for telling the daily beast, you can not rape your spouse. Those five words set off a firestorm. Stunning response to decades old allegation against donald trump. Donald Trumps Campaign is issuing a strong response this
After they first said i do. Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news, reporting tonight erica hill. Good evening. In less than 24 hours, the size of one of the largest wildfires burning in california, the rocky fire has more than doubled. 73 square miles scorched. Two dozen homes are gone. More than 12,000 residents told to evacuate. Dry conditions and shifting winds are not helping the nearly 2,000 firefighters now battling just this one immense blaze, which is still only 5 contained. Of course, it is not the only fire burning tonight. Across the state, more than 20 major fires continue to spread. Nbcs gada schwartz is in clear lake, california for us tonight. Good evening. Reporter erica, good evening. This is a fastmoving fire that is incredibly unpredictable. You can see the smoke billowing over the ridge and fire crews preparing to hold their lines. From the sign and bring it to me. Reporter fighting fire with fire,