Take a listen. This guy charles in many respects it was remarkable. Could it be something of a cautionary tale . Absolutely not. The only person who can beat trump is trump. I think we know who wont be coming in second place. I was laughing when you were playing the clip of trump at his rally talking about how jeb says trump cant beat hillary. Jeb cant even win a contest. At the end of the day people decide we need to put in votedders hands and instead of asking who can stop trump, get behind the candidates we like and let the process play out. Charles speak of laughing at jeb, did you see his gun today . I did. Hes showing people hes a tough guy. Charles even Edward Snowden took a shot at him on twitter. All the political pundits are saying dont count out South Carolina. Dont put a checkmark in the box for trump yet. You cant come to any other conclusion based on these polls and based on his rallies and social media following. Just because he had a disappointing performance in the deb
Especially syria. How important, if this goes on, how important is the first move, jim . Incredibly important, and is only of some limited gabs now. I know that sounds lie gobbledygook. But were bombing syria. Will todays bombing fundamentally change the balance of power in syria . That remains to be seen. It seems unlikely, right . This is military powers an instrument. It can help with some problems, not help with others. Help a lot, help a little. So its a big deal that were getting involved here this is really a big deal but it remains to be seen how important military is relative to the political and the diplomatic. The strange thing just months ago the president of the United States was considering bombing air strikes against Bashar Alassads forces because it had used chemical weapons. Yes. And now, the United States and its arab allies apparently have launched a strike against the opposition to Bashar Alassad. Yes, i hear you on that. I have a certain sympathy for this irony. Be
Killed and 2,000 injured in the gaza strip. Israel says it my ramp up Ground Invasion as tanks and troops move in to target hamas tunnels. We have two major news story for you in this hour. In a moment well have the latest on israels offensive on gaza. These are live pictures of gaza city which has been under israeli fire for 11 days now, and israeli has also started a ground operation on gaza. Our other top story is the shooting down of malaysian flight mh 17. For more on that, lets go to our london news center. President obama said separatists brought down the plane on thursday. Monitors for the organization for security and cooperation in europe arrived at the crash site earlier, but werent given access to carry out proper inspections. Pressure is growing on prorussian separatists and moscow. President putin has responded by calling for a ceasefire. The flight left at midday local time destines for kwal la lam pure. Scott heidler was one of the First International journalists to rea
She joined us in january. She has a really rich of history of campaign work, working inor electoral politics and policyja and research and she was the perfect person to take over from pillar. Im delighted to call you up. Thank you. [applause] thank you, donna. Im really lucky, i guess depending on your perspective maybe really unlucky who is the person to gets to present results of an effort which donna said was conceived of and carried out by a large team of people, many who are here today, many so of whom i think are up all night getting our website and other assets going. I really appreciate your work and second donnas thanks to all of you. Today i would like to do three things. First im going to talk about what our research revealed. Second i offer preliminary thoughts about what it suggests. Third, i will talk a little bit where we might go from here. But to start, lets look at a short video we put together, if i can operate this. Have you ever wondered what does america look like
Been inconsistent say that. , with guest hosteen of cbs news who looks at the ebola crisis. He is joined by laurie garrj schaffner. Weom like a major demonstrators are the trying to strangle democracy in hong kong, the protesters were initially net by a harsh police crackdown, standoff continues today as student leaders call for the resignation of hong kongs chief executive. Joining me from washington is jon huntsman. He served as the u. S. Ambassador to china from 2009 to 2011. As a former candidate for the republican president ial nomination in 2012. And i am pleased to have him here with me on this program. Welcome, john. Thanks, ian, good to be with you. Lets just start by telling us where we are right now in in this dispute. How dangerous is it and how has it played out in your view . Well i think on the ground, we clearly have a stan standoffi think that is likely to last some time which probably accommodates the needs of both sides. It accommodates the needs of beijing because t