Stabilization Effort News Today

The Plan International Nigeria has engaged youths from Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria to become change agents in stabilization of the Lake Chad Basin, plaque by protracted security and economic crises. The Regional Project Manager of the Europe Union (EU) Project, Mrs. Lisa Angulo said this yesterday in Abuja at a ‘Regional Exchange meeting on Youth […]

So i far iran and their adversaries and the united states have found ways to limit the risks to human beings. this is different from, you know, things weve seen i ran do historically, the bombing of the marine barracks in lebanon in 1983, the explosively foreign penetrator charges that they smuggled into iraq in the u.s.-led stabilization effort. iran has a lot of american blood on its hands. in this particular crisis, iran has been trying to cause damage and to affect the world economy more tha...

The state department that it would be, quote, reckless to simply declare victory and leave. this was just last week. the trump administration also stated just last week that there was months of fighting still left. just look at what the trump administration was saying just last week. if. >> we really are now down to the last 1% of the physical territory. were prepared to maintain the stabilization effort in iraq and syria. this will take a period of years. so the enduring defeat of isis means no...

World because they fought for us. but theyve killed isis, who hurts the world. weve proud to have done it. >> thats the presidents claim, that isis is totally defeated. it actually does not appear to be backed by evidence on the ground. just last week president trumps special envoy to syria told reporters at the state department that it would be, quote, reckless to simply declid declare victory and leave. he also stated there was months of fighting left. >> we are now down to the last 1% of the ...

Islam is peace. that was striking from people to hear from the president. >> he was right. what we were beginning to see was american citizens upset and enraged by what happened on 9/11 understandably, making life uncomfortable for believers of the islamic faith in the united states. he really wanted to call the country to pull together and focus on the real problem, which is those terrorist extremists who really are perverting islam in the name of what is essentially a political agenda. >> is t...

Going to be like a new plant. were looking at both now. theres never been a case where power plants were gone. this isnt just like you know, as i said, i dont want to just fix the poles. theres never been a case where power plants were gone. its going to be a period of time before electric is restored. as i said, the president has answered all of our petitions and what this is still ongoing, so we expect this that will continue. were being you know, very diligent getting all of the data and what...

Puerto rican, even some of the rural areas, you do this over and over again of people you talk to. they say look, we had it bad but it could have been worse. thats what theyll say. even though some we spoke with have said they lost their home. but theyre very proud. they want, you know, theres a slogan here in puerto rico. [ speaking foreign language ] theres this very -- they are eager to rise above this and to have this recovery effort move forward. craig, the situation with the power is reall...

So much has to be rebuilt. even from before. the difference between texas and florida and various places is were looking at designs of a new power plant, a big electrical plant and many different designs an concepts, which is very unusual. because it was in pretty rough shape prior and now, its in even rougher shape. with that said, i think weve done a really great job and weve had tremendous cooperation from the governor and we are getting there and people are really seeing the effort thats bee...

Msnbcs garrett haith is with me. what do we know? >> craig, two big developments here within the last hour. the first in the senate. senate alexander revealed his list of republican co-sponsors for this bill and hes got 12 of them. the most notable, lindsey graham and bill cassidy, whose names youll remember were the authors of the last bill, the repeal and replace obamacare. so now they have signed their names on to this effort to fix it. thats going to go a long way in encouraging support here...

With those obstacles, weve gone about 15,000 d.o.d. personnel in puerto rico, about 2,000 fema personnel, hhs and others. the response is there. do we need to do a lot more? of course we do. i think everybody over here recognizes theres a lot of work to be done in puerto rico. with your leadership, sir, with everybody over here, were committed to achieving that in the long run. >> brock, in the last 50 days, though, to put this into context for america, from the virgin islands to california, wev...