Progress. Ng when times went from 38 minutes down to 30, and only 18 minutes in the month of december. I wanted to meet patsy. I want you to meet passage. Patsy, director of the center. [applause] patsy, thanks to you and your team for giving our customers great service. In tennessee, we have a lot to brag about. This is the time to take advantage of our strengths and face are challenges headon. I look forward to the executive and legislative branches continuing to Work Together on issues such matter to tennesseeans. We should begin tonight by addressing the elephant in the room, there are a lot of expectations and preconceived notions about how republican supermajority is going to govern. There is a narrative already been written for us. Republicans will fight internally, and democrats will be focused solely on play politics instead of working across the aisle to find Common Ground for good government. I think that makes characters caricatures of us. Were not always going to agree on
Top diplomats from more than a dozen countries dealing with whats been described as a, quote, bleak global environment. And its the situation in syria and the european refugee crisis that are overshadowing their talks. The meetings come just days after ministers from the United States, from russia and other nations all announced that theyve agreed to a pause in the fighting in syria to take effect in a week. But there are fears that at least two issues will scuttle any lasting peace in that nation. The continued russian airstrikes on aleppo and the insistence by the syrian president , Bashar Al Assad, that he would continue fighting enemies that he deems terrorists. Lets get the very latest from munich. Our Cnn International diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, is live for us this hour. Nic, good to have you with us. So theres so many issues that are playing out in the world. What is the mood there among leaders in munich . Reporter well, theres concern about this peace plan for syria at
Retired lieutenant. Thank you for being with us. A new cold war, was the headline. When you look at this and when you argue that medvedev was putting out in the open what u. S. Officials have been saying for a while. The tension between u. S. And russia at a number of points. In syria it started nout ukraine, the sanction against russia over the annexation of crimea in ukraine have hurt. And this has been going on in the back ground. Its also been going on verbally. U. S. Officials over the past year and a half have called russia publicly an existial threat. Now for the russians to answer with their own war of words not surprising but it have to point out, we dont have Nuclear Weapons pointed at each others cat talls. So its not truly a cold war. No, its a very important distinction to make, absolutely. Given so many newspaper headlines will read this come tomorrow morning. General, to you. Lets listen to what natos Top Commander general breedlove said in response to medvedev today. Is
Cruz. He said, quote, if he doesnt clean up his act, stop cheating and doing negative ads, i have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen. Cruz returned fire. My approach consistently has been im not going to respond in kind. He can launch insults however much he wants. There is a reason donald engages in attacks, because its all a smoke screen to hide from his record. Now, last night donald trump held a rally with thousands of supporters. Take a look here. Cnns jim acosta is here. Trump did keep his promise on thursday when he vowed to stop using vulgarities on the campaign trail but he still went on the attack, hitting one of his favorite targets, jeb bush, insisting the former Florida Governor is unable to negotiate with adversaries. Heres what he had to say. Oh, jeb. Jeb. Hes asleep. Hes asleep at the wheel, folks. No, seriously. Can you imagine jeb negotiating with china . Cruz fired back at trump saying the real estate tycoons complaints dont square. With bush an
Lets talk more about what we can expect from tonights Republican Debate in South Carolina with cnn political commentator, washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza, and mj lee, director at the center for politics at the university of virginia larry sab dough, and politics editor at the root. Com, jason johnson. Good to see all of you. See if i can do good traffic copping here. Mj, you first. Ted cruz releasing an ad attacking trump using the word sleeze. Listen. Trump bang rolled politicians to steam role the little guy, a pattern of sleeze stretching back decades. So much for being more positive, mj. Yeah, not seeing a lot of that around here just a week from the South Carolina primary. This is because donald trump and ted cruz both badly want to win this state. First southern primary of the 2016 race. Look, theyve had tensions brewing awhile. This is crunch time. They each have one victory under their belt. They want to show theyre the antiestablishment candidate. There