Pentagon with the white house talking tough on and directly to iran. Fox news was first to report the latest iran Ballistic Missile test. The white house has responded. Mike flynn said the u. S. Would not ignore these apparent violations of u. N. Security Council Resolution to do 31, put in place following the nuclear agreement. The obama element is ration failed to respond adequately to tehrans actions. Violations of international norms. As of today, we are officially putting her on unnoticed. Iran carried out the Ballistic Missile test on sunday 140 miles east of tehran. The missile is a medium range missile. U. S. Officials tell us it traveled 600 miles before exploding. It failed on reentry. Last night, fox news reported iran carried out another secret test december 6th. Flynn holds iran responsible for ice Suicide Attack on monday a Suicide Attack on monday. The white house said neither incident is a violation of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Instead of being thankful to the United State
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Great to have you with us. This is cnn newsroom. Im john vause live in los angeles where its just gone 10 00. And im isa soares in london where its 6 00 in the morning. Anger across the United States. Congress is in recess and reason lawmakers are facing inteing constituents. Questioning over obama care, and the Trump Administrations a ties to russia. Its put republicans on the defensive. Many gop representatives have avoided the angry meetings all together. One showed up. And heres what happened. I am angry constituent. You work for us. You want to stand there with him and expect us to be calm, cool, and collected. Well, what kind of insurance do you have . Lets bring out a political panel. We have mark preston, john phillips, dave jacobson, and john thomas. Lets start with reaction from the white house to the angry town Hall Meetings. Heres Spokesman Sean Spicer earlier today. I think some people are clearly upset. But there is a bit of professional protester manufacturers base in th
Millions of voters said this was the single most important issue to them when they voted for me for president. I am a man of my word. I will do as i say. Something that the American People have been asking for from washington for a very, very long time. Judge gorsuch will soon face confirmation hearings in the u. S. Senate. Cnns pamela brown has more on his record. Reporter judge neil gorsuch sits on the 10th Circuit Court of appeals and his judicial philosophy aligns with the conservative icon he could replace, Justice Antonin Scalia, and he believes as scalia did in the literal interpretation of the constitution. The world suffered a seismic shock with the loss of Justice Scalia. Reporter they were good friends, seen recently fishing together. Just weeks after scalias sudden death last february gorsuch spoke about getting the news while skiing. I immediately lost what breath i had left and im not embarrassed to admit that i couldnt see the rest of the way down the mountain for the te
Its essentially a federal government saying that its up to individual schools, individual states to make these own protections. Its not an executive order at all. This is coming out tonight from the department of justice and the department ofs education in a joint statement saying they basically are sending the directive back to the states to make these decisions. Its not without controversy, even here at the white house. We do have a first look at a white house statement that will be coming out shortly. It says as President Trump has clearly stated, he believes the policy regarding transgender bathrooms should be decided at the state level. The joint decision made today by the department of justice and the department of education returning power to the states paves the way for an open and inclusive process to take place at the local level with input with parents, students, teachers, and administrators. Again, anderson, this is a big deal. Its weighing in on social issues which weve no