Who takes a harder line on putin, iran, syria . How will republicans behave in the booth if forced to vote for a republican, rand paul, who thinks the u. S. Is too warlike . All of this is possible. It could happen if Hillary Clinton sticks to the hard line she voiced in a recent interview with the atlantic and rand paul win it is the republican nomination. Think it cant happen . It can. The big question is how party line voters will deal with it. Will democrats get hawkish . Will republicans get suddenly dovish . Talk about changing partners. David korn is here from mother jones magazine. Lets watch more of senator paul when nbcs Chris Jansing interviewed him. Lets listen to senator paul. The American Public is coming more to where i am and those people, like Hillary Clinton who fought her own war, hillarys war. People will find and i think that scares the democrats the most. In a general election, were i to run, there is going to be a lot of independents and some democrats who say, y
Political movement called the islamic courts union. And as essentially the militia for the islamic courts union, al shabaab starting in about 2006, they were doing all the things that we associate with this group and with their ilk. They were stoning people to death, they were cutting off hands and limbs. Doing mass executions. Basically ruling by terror. Declaring a fundamentalist terror state in the parts of somalia where they had control. And it was not long before they got aspirations beyond somalia. In 2010, al shabaab launched all those attacks in uganda against people who had committed the grave sin of getting together to watch world cup soccer matches. Those attacks killed more than 70 people. In 2012, al shabaab formally declared they were an affiliate of al qaeda central. Declared allegiance. Though they claimed credit for bombings and killings and mutilations and grenade attacks over and over and over again throughout this whole time, it was this time last year, was septembe
Hands and limbs. Doing mass executions. Basically ruling by terror. Declaring a fundamentalist terror state in the parts of somalia where they had control. And it was not long before they got aspirations beyond somalia. In 2010, al shabaab launched all those attacks in uganda against people who had committed the grave sin of getting together to watch world cup soccer matches. Those attacks killed more than 70 people. In 2012, al shabaab formally declared they were an affiliate of al qaeda central. Declared allegiance. Though they claimed credit for bombings and killings and mutilations and grenade attacks over and over and over again throughout this whole time, it was this time last year, was september 2013, when an al shabaab attack made frontpage headlines around the world and shocked the whole international community. That attack happened not in somalia, but in kenya in the cosmopolitan capital kenyan city of nairobi. Al shabaab militants over a period of three days mounted a coordi
Is not done yet, but day are done hearing testimony from witnesses. The Bob Mcdonnell jury is now ready to hear closing arguments in that federal corruption trial in richmond, virginia. That means we are on verdict watch very shortly in the Bob Mcdonnell trial. Well have more on that ahead. Also, theres some big news to report tonight on a story that we first brought you here last night. It involves a bribery scandal and a guilty plea and the man who would like to be the next Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. Federal prosecutors are now reportedly moving on to other new targets in toptier republican politics after securing a key guilty plea in that bribery scandal yesterday. We have an update on that for you. Thats all ahead. But first, in the 2008 elections, a man named nate silver became very, very famous by being very, very correct. Nate silver is a stats guy. He came up through the sports world but had an interest in politics. And in that election, he ended up do
His experience along with Nancy Writebol has fueled new hope on the devastating disease, but Officials Say the window is closing for containment. Good morning from washington. It is wednesday, september 3rd, 2014, and this is the daily rundown. Im peter alexander. You can see the president is now preparing to speak to a group of young people in estonia. We will monitor what we hear from him over the course of this hour. He is expected to address his trip to that region, a reassurance of sorts as he has been visiting with the president s of latvia, lithuania and estonia as leaders have concerned about what the west is willing to do to support them as Vladimir Putin supports more area in that region, specifically along the border with ukraine. But we begin right now with developing news out of Eastern Europe where president obama is resisting pressure to dramatically alter his strategy against isis militants, despite the brutal beheading of a second american journalist. Overnight the Nat