It’s a huge gap in security, it’s a huge problem we’ve had with our immigration system for many years.
ADAM SCHIFFThat says, I think, a lot about where the president is coming from, but it was quite jarring given this was an attack on our democracy by a foreign power.
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Then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.
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By his own admission, was discussing the future of Director Comey in that job, and the president brings up whether he is under investigation, highly unethical, at a minimum, unethical.
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We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
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Obviously, some of it will have to be done in closed session.
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That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president,
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The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
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They, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.
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And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They’ve seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.
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An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
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I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.
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And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
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Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.
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And if they’re not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.
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The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.
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The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
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The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That’s good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying.
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Donald Trump and his personal attorney want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever Bob Mueller comes up with.
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In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II
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Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely
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We know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy.
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That bomb that took down that Russian airliner may have been the size of a soda can. And that bomb killed more people than all the Paris attackers combined. So this is still a grave threat.
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The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don’t want them and if it means that these Shia mobilization forces are going to be going after and trying to kill Americans.
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Someone who is a retired judge or an acting judge willing to step down from their judgeship, someone ideally who has prosecutorial experience, but someone who could come in and give credibility to the Russia investigation that is severely in jeopardy.
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There was certainly merit to the criticism that the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had about how James Comey handled the Hillary Clinton investigation.
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Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances.
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I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don’t think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.
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