Artillery fire on both sides was constant this. Entire villages were wiped off the map and. Never before had so many soldiers been killed in such a limited area. Or Dead Mans Hill was the scene of particularly bitter fighting. At the end of the Battle One Of The Hills Two summits was ten meters lower than it was before. Served as a laboratory for testing new weapons the german army fired poison gas in shells here for the first time. This allowed for more accurate targeting. The effect on french troops was devastating. The battle lasted from february to december one Nine Hundred Sixteen. A total of about Sixty Million shells were fired. When these missions corrode the casing comes off of it a lot of them youre left with stuff like t. N. T. High explosive which is a percentage of so now you have the constituent weight on the bottom of the ocean which will continually. Put stuff in the environment like that for the next thousand years. These materials accumulate in the ecosystem and pose
And a president ial nominee stuns morning shows by saying what is aleppo. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Last night felt like a debate donald trump and Hillary Clinton went one after another. The dualing narratives were enlightning. Some Foreign Policy experts would say how detached from the facts on the ground they were. Sarah murray is in cleveland. It is hard to argue that anyone had a particularly good night last night, so Hillary Clinton this first thing going on the offensive. It seems that trump was set on making sure clinton did not get the last word. Youre right, donald trump was in in cleveland at a Charter School he could not help rehash some of the topics that came up last night. He went into a lengthy defense saying that he was an early opposer of going into war in iraq excite the evidence to the contrary and he went after Hillary Clinton One More Time on her emails. Last night was yet another test, and donald trump failed yet again. Hillary clinton and donald trump
Promised there would be no Ground Troops used if iraq or syria. And shes gotten some criticism from people who say shes taking an important option off of the table here, anderson. She said that she would support american troops, Special Forces, doing reconnaissance assisting, indigenous or local forces and providing advisory roles which is the terminology currently used by the white house. Some also thought that by not acknowledging that some Special Forces are currently in combat situations in iraq and syria, she was also, you know, sort of perpetuating this idea that there are no troops who are in harms way. In fact, they are. Some of them have actually died. Dru donald trump hitting her on this saying shes telegraphing isis, she commented on donald trump not having a firm grasp of the facts when it comes to National Security and the issues that were discussed last night. Trump had an event earlier today. He also tried to address some of the things that were said in the forum last ni
Candidate Hillary Clinton spoke before donors and offered this blunt assessment, not of donald trump himself but of his supporters. Listen. To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump Supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. Right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, islamaphobic, you name it. Unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. In the meantime, donald trump also went off script at a rally in florida. Heres what he said. She could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldnt be prosecuted. Cnns Scott Mcclain is joining us from washington. Well start with Hillary Clinton, the reaction youre hearing this morning to the deplorables comment. Yeah, the deplorables comment, christi, is going over like a lead balloon with donald Trump Supporters, as you might expected. It is a Trending Subject on twitter and it is causing genuine offense. In fact,
Putins play. New questions about his possible influence over donald trump after he takes his praise of putin to a Surprising New level that his opponent calls scary. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton exchanging fierce new attacks portraying one another fit to be Commander In Chief. Trump accuses clinton of a criminal cover up in her email controversy and producing policies that produce ruin and death. Trump trying to shift the focus to clintons controversy as he faces new criticism for remarks he made during a National Security forum overnight. Clinton is ratcheting up her rhetoric as the race against trump tightens. She claims that isis is rooting for trump to win the presidency. She slams trump for trash talking about americas generals when he said u. S. Military leaders have been reduced to rubble under President Obama. Pence also is standing behind trumps claim tha