Page 11 - Peace Table News Today

>> we all need to work together in the security council to try to find a way to persuade the russians to bring him to the table but i think your video shows us why russia is critical to this. president assad himself has shown repeatedly that left to his own devices he is not going to come to the peace table but he has allies and has russia and iran and they need to help bring him to that table. rick: for more european reaction we go to amy kellogg who is in rome tonight. reporter: even though th...

Briefcase. there isnt one of the presidential palaces, like nothing is happening. in the strike last year, 59 missiles that did not stop him from using chemical weapons. >> we wouldnt be in the conflict we are as president assad didnt have the spirit we all work together in the security council to find a way to bring him to the table. i think your video shows why russia is so critical to this. president assad has shown that to his own devices he will not come to the peace table. ps allies, russi...

Lot to israel. >> talk is cheap. previous presidents never followed through on the reality of what was on the ground. that is the capitol of israel has been and is jerusalem. now we have a president that is following through, not just on a campaign promise, but on u.s. policy. we are moving it like we should have been doing years ago. everyone complains that its going to destabilize. lets have a reality check here. what is 30 years, 50 years of not moving it there done for us? nothing the palest...

Of israel, the fact it has 100 or so settlements block the blocks obviously in occupied territory detrimental not only to peace but to the very nature of israel being a jewish state and democratic state. hes saying its pushing israel into a one-state solution. the issue of jerusalem in particular is highly symbolic not only because it implicates palestinians and israelis but a broader reach to the arab and muslim world. this is something arab officials have been warning the trump administration ...

>> stop the bombing! let us save our national honor, stop the bombing. and stop the war. let us save american lives and vietnamese lives, let us take a single instantaneous step to the peace table. stop the bombing. >> the anti-war movement was growing, in numbers and militan militancy. we are no longer interested in merely protesting the war, one organizer said, we are out to stop it. >> lyn, there were so many divides, you alluded to this, ken, that were generational divides, they were racial ...

Creating a stable environment, so what does that mean? the number of providence is such a localized environment. we dont need to hold that military and make everything safe. he said we are going to have taliban come to to the peace table. the numbers are a lot less applicable. it doesnt really matter except how they will be utilized. the strongest we were in afghanistan was right after 9/11 when special forces went in and we had medical evacuation. we put our hurt on the tally band so quickly th...

>> bill: two specific questions, and ive got about 90 seconds left here. take the taliban first. how do you drive the taliban to the peace table? >> if you listen to the presidents words carefully, he said we are going to stop the taliban from overthrowing the government. he didnt say they were going to defeat the taliban, but the second thing he is going to do, we are going to stop pakistan from supporting the afghan taliban in pakistan with intelligence, with resources, with trading, and with ...

With any success. so i dont know that erik princes suggestion is correct, but there is something to the idea that our afghanistan strategys not working particularly well. >> its definitely a very complicated problem. and i think part of the reason that mr. princes ideas are getting some time with the administration is a reflection of how frustrated they are with the lack of good options. you know, i think the key issue for the united states really is what is our vital interest in afghanistan. an...

It is almost hard to fathom that a u.s. president can actually bring them to the peace table and find some brotherhood there. that would be a huge task but i huge a compliment as well. >> right. it is a good point. i think because of the respect that both leaders have for the president, remember, the prime minister is on a first-name basis, during his remarks yesterday he referred to the president is donald, there is a close relationship. i think they may not want to say no to president trump, h...

Push back on them in europe against what theyre doing in ukraine. right now today theres a war ongoing in ukraine because of russian actions there. second of course syria. they want us to stop pushing back against what theyre doing in syria, come to the peace table and take the terms they want which of course we cant accept, neither can the allies that were with on the battlefield in syria. so i think its really important to remember this all started because the russians wanted americans to be f...