Page 12 - Stalling Tactic News Today

That if theres evidence thats needed for a pending criminal investigation, the executive privilege has to yield to that need and to the extent that bob mueller or anybody else is looking for information, you know, you dont get to just hide it just because you want to. then finally look he went on national television and talked about his conversations with james comey. so you throw away a lot of the privilege if you talk about it on national television. if, however, the white house does attempt t...

He is willing to stay in a mexican jail and take his chances with that system rather than come back to the united states. is this just a stalling tactic? >> it is. thats a short-term type of solution. i wouldnt even call it a solution. what happens is mexico has whats similar to our writ of habeas corpus to assure your rights are not violated in any way. hes saying, im in mexico, i violated no mexican law, so to what extent should i have to leave mexico and be deported back to the united states?...

They are very, very concerned about this outreach from iran. theyre worried its not as he said there, that its not going to actually translate into the anything meaningful and that its just a stalling tactic. hes been saying that ever since the president was elected, president rouhani. so he came to the u.n. and delivered exactly the speech that we all expected. >> the state-run english language television service in iran, whats called press tv, took the prime minister, the israeli prime ministe...

Agreement with this plan. they say its just a stalling tactic. is it? >> a stalling tactic, what, join the agreement? >> yeah, that youre just stalling right now. that you really dont have any intention of going along with the plan. are you stalling? >> when we joined the agreement, you have mechanism, and you have to obey these mechanisms. and according to the history of syria, we never made an agreement with anybody in this world, and we didnt fulfill what we had to do. our role in that. never...

Whether they will impcomply if there can be a diplomatic solution to the situation in saer. >> lets say they dont meet that first time line. >> reporter: that is the question. i mean, we have had time and time again, we have seen so many efforts trying to solve the crisis diplomatically, they have stalled. there have been delays and delays and delays. the rebels in syria and the opposition keep saying this is a stalling tactic by the assad regime and saying he has no contention to comply what he...

Stage of this. so i think we should, you know, that president obama himself quoted president reagan, trust but verify. so i think we need to go ahead and enter the discussions, but at some point we need to be sure theres a real goodwill on all sides to move forward and it isnt just a stalling tactic. >> whats your view on the motivation of putin? we know his history, formerly kgb investigator and leading the kgb at one time. do you feel like he is trying to bring peace to the region, save the wo...

There is nothing left except for a shell, and its not even a whole shell in its entirety. >> reporter: yeah, that business owner was saying that the debris and the damage from the fire, its going to cost more and it will take longer for him to repair than the damage from sandy. now, governor christie was a little bit more optimistic. he says that this town is going to rebuild. hes actually going to meet with business owners and local authorities this afternoon at 1:30. >> all right, margaret con...

Conversation, andrea, they made it believe it is only this credible threat of military action that brought us to this place for the first time bashar al assad admitted he has chemical weapons, less alone having conversations about his willingness to turn them over. theres a briefing with jay carney, the press secretary that will start sometime electric from now. weve been reaching out to them over the course of the last hour about the fact theres concerns this could be a stalling tactic. russia ...

They can see that, ncin fact, commanding the whole operation. i think as well they will get an opportunity if, in fact, they play ball with this to join the u.s. in creating a step forward in syria, which in my view ought to be followed by a move to the geneva peace process and begin a negotiation which is the one way i believe we have of getting rid of assad. >> ambassador thomas pickering. thank you so much for your expertise. >> thanks, andrea. great to be with you. and earlier on the "toda...

Easier. catherine has more on this. >> the head of the intelligence committee tells fox news that putting the chemical weapons under international control looks like a big problem from start to finish. >> it is tens of thousands of pounds of this stuff. thats why we are so concerned by the shear volume of it. there has been consolidation in moving. there are a few sites. >> that consolidation is referring to syrian president assad and based on the intelligence as the civil war intensities the re...