Decided to strike, then he wanted to ask congress for its authorization, now this. Schieffer i think its fair to say the people at the white house are feeling better tonight than where they were two days ago when they faced an almost certain humiliation of having congress turn down the president s request to use force. They have managed to finesse that and have even managed to get Bashar Alassad to say that he does have chemical weapons. He said before he didnt even have them. Pelley and we will see the president walking into the east room of the white house in just a few seconds. Here he comes now. The president of the United States. My fellow americans, tonight i want to talk to you about syria, why it matters and where we go from here. Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar Alassad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country. In that time, americas worke
We learned today from the fbi director that agents interviewed mateen twice before he gunned down 49 people this summer. We have that story. The director of Homeland Security says his agents are seeing increasingly sophisticated efforts to hack into Voter Registration rolls across the country. Tonight, well examine why the white house continues to play down any threat to the integrity of the november election. Also tell you why democratic lawmakers are blocking a funding bill to keep the government operating past friday and what republican congressional leaders are doing and saying about it. And the senate will vote tomorrow on whether to override president obamas veto of a bill allowing relatives of 9 11 victims to sue saudi arabia. The vote counting continues tonight but appears the override supporters have their votes. Now to president ial politics and the big event last night. For as much hype as there was ahead of the first debate, both nominees quickly moved on to other events to
Henninger, jason riley, and mary ogrady and bill mcgurn. Dan, i remember we had a visitor from the Counterterrorism Group in the white house a couple months ago telling us this person telling us on background that they were concerned about europe. Now we see it manifesting itself here at the christmas season. Absolutely, paul. I was thinking very much the same thing. It was just a month ago, recall, that the pentagon made it known that they were going to move on an invasion of raqqa which is the Islamic State Head Quarters in syria. This is a time when the iraq army and the Coalition Partners were trying to retake mosul. I thought thats a lot to bite off at the same time. But the pentagon said back then that they were concerned that the Islamic State was going to try to project terror into europe and elsewhere, and clearly they were right. Not merely europe. Yemen and jordan have both experienced terrorist attacks in the last week. Obviously the west has to be on alert. The german situ
We learned today from the fbi director that agents interviewed mateen twice before he gunned down 49 people this summer. We have that story. The director of Homeland Security says his agents are seeing increasingly sophisticated efforts to hack into Voter Registration rolls across the country. Tonight, well examine why the white house continues to play down any threat to the integrity of the november election. Also tell you why democratic lawmakers are blocking a funding bill to keep the government operating past friday and what republican congressional leaders are doing and saying about it. And the senate will vote tomorrow on whether to override president obamas veto of a bill allowing relatives of 9 11 victims to sue saudi arabia. The vote counting continues tonight but appears the override supporters have their votes. Now to president ial politics and the big event last night. For as much hype as there was ahead of the first debate, both nominees quickly moved on to other events to
Henninger, jason riley, and mary ogrady and bill mcgurn. Dan, i remember we had a visitor from the Counterterrorism Group in the white house a couple months ago telling us this person telling us on background that they were concerned about europe. Now we see it manifesting itself here at the christmas season. Absolutely, paul. I was thinking very much the same thing. It was just a month ago, recall, that the pentagon made it known that they were going to move on an invasion of raqqa which is the Islamic State Head Quarters in syria. This is a time when the iraq army and the Coalition Partners were trying to retake mosul. I thought thats a lot to bite off at the same time. But the pentagon said back then that they were concerned that the Islamic State was going to try to project terror into europe and elsewhere, and clearly they were right. Not merely europe. Yemen and jordan have both experienced terrorist attacks in the last week. Obviously the west has to be on alert. The german situ