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I suppose some of it can be ascribed to knee-jerk partisanship that has become all too familiar. rhetoric that renders every decision thats made a disaster a surrender. youre aiding terrorists youre endangering freedom. on the other hand, i do think its important to acknowledge another more understandable motivation behind the opposition to this deal or at least skepticism to this deal. and that is a sincere affinity for our friend and ally israel. an affinity that as someone who has been a stal...

I suppose some of it can be ascribed to knee jerk partisanship that has become all too familiar. rhetoric that renders every decision thats made a disaster, a surrender, youre aiding terrorists, youre endangering freedom. on the other hand, i do think its important to acknowledge another more understandable motivation behind the opposition to this deal -- or at least skepticism to this deal, and this is a sincere affinity for our friend and ally, israel. and affinity that, as someone who has bee...

That thing kind of swept through. senator cruz and senator mcconnell got into it a little bit. where are you on the highway bill and the xm bank? >> the highway bill i have a lot more affinity for because every billion dollars you spend building highways you create 13,000 jobs. if you build it with a strategic goal in mind theres an advantage. infrastructure in this country is in desperately bad shape, so we need to look at the revamping of highways bridges, overpasses. $3 trillion worth of infr...

Israel remains openly disdainful of the iran deal while beneath diplomatic nice tis, gulf region arab allies remain deeply skeptical of im. a jordanian official overheard on wednesday expressing a concern during a benign photo op with a reporter. db sometimes its difficult for us to [ inaudible ] -- >> reporter: here in baghdad carter found some encouragement. 3,000 coalition-trained iraqi troops have now joined the battle to remake ramadi and have shown courage according to u.s. advisers. one ...

Power plant because he failed the drug testing. in those writings, he talked about anwar awlaki who was a a leader of al qaeda and a senior leader. according to the family representative, some of his writings had an affinity for him and some of the writings made sense to him. we are told by the parents through this spokesman he did not mention any other names and did not mention any other organizations in these writings, including al qaeda, but certainly that is being investigated by u.s. author...

This point that he is being investigated for any crime, just that he is being questioned by jordanian authorities who are not commenting about the interrogation that is also taking place. also we want to tell you about the possibility that this gunman received any outside advice from any people who wanted him him to become a domestic terrorist. the parents deny that but do say in his weakest moments he got into, quote, evil ideology. he talked anwar awlaki who was a notorious leader in al qaeda ...

Plant because of the drug testing. according to the family representative some of his writings had an affinity for anwar awlaki who was a notorious leader in al qaeda and according to the family representatives some of the writings had an affinity to him and made sense to him. we are told by the parents through this spokesman he did not mention any other names and did not mention any other organizations in these writings, including al qaeda, but certainly that is being investigated by u.s. autho...

Any outsider about being a terrorist. however they did say, some writing after 2013 when he was arrested after, not when he was arrested but fired from his job at a nuclear power plant where he was fired. he referred to anwar al aleaki. he was a cleric who lived in yemen. notorious, one of the top recruiters and according to the family their son had an affinity for him and some of his the writings made sense to him. so thats an important thing investigators will look. a they say through this he ...

Abdulazeez? muslim extremist? >> well the problem with the blog posts is it doesnt really show any affinity to any particular group. there is a statement about the companions of the prophet, he is saying they werent monks in a monastery, they were also fighters and warriors and that i guess its true factually but is that militancy, extremism, its hard to say. there are a couple things that what i call isis-speak in the sense that number one, he did it in the fasting month and this is what the is...

Him? >> well, it will be interesting if we confirm he was an islamist and this was jihad, which i think is likely. what his particular affinity was, and in the west to frankly do a better job of targeting isis. we have military leaders saying were making progress. it doesnt look that way if you observe the battlefield and observe the position of isis this year. the presidential candidate scott walker said we should fight them over there and take the fight to them before they bring it to us. so p...