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And that's why republicans are making this enormous gamble in positioning themselves without opposing any check on a president that many americans are a.m. bif lent at best about. >> more noews we're following, including an exclusive interview with secretary of state rex tillerson. cancer challenges us.
What's your main takeaway from this extensiver ten-tenser b t had? >> he came from texas where he lived the last 50 years or so and no government experience, i think he was very reflective of the fact he had a little bit of a rocky year trying to get his sea legs and get it know how to work for this president and i think really trying to say, like, i'm here now, i'm learning the ropes, i'm getting to know washington, i'm getting to know the government interagency process. and i'm going build on that. i think he knows he needs to engage a little bit more with congress, build that political cons...
Question. the u.s. did call the russians, who are backing those syrian forces. there's always been a question as to what kind of influence the russians really have over this syrian regime. and the fact that the syrian forces came back might indicate that they don't have all that much influence. so, we'll have to wait and see over the next 24 hours. these syrian forces, the pro regime forces stretched very thin, so you would think they wouldn't want to escalate and risk getting shot down by the u.s. again, but we'll have to see. >> all right, elise labott reporting. thanks for staying on top of...
Affairs. that's the bureau that runs the full program where foreign exchange students come to the u.s. and often return home with a more positive view of america. wolf, more than 300 heads of state and 1,500 ministers received an education through the fullbright and have been strong u.s. allies. many believe it's one of the u.s.'s cheapest diplomatic bargains, wolf. >> elise labott reporting for us, elise, thanks very much. just ahead, the major storm pummeling the northeast. snow continues to fall tonight. we'll have the latest forecast. plus we have new details of a new russian buildup. ...
>> elise labott reporting there for us. new controversy for president trump's former campaign chief paul manafort. a ukranian human rights lawyer wants prosecutors to investigate what are said to be the hacked text messages of one of manafort's daughters. the attorney represents the victims of mass police shootings in kiev, ukraine in 2014. he says the texts point to possible influence manafort had with ukraine's president at that time. and as our matthew chance touched on, manafort currently faces an fbi investigation over alleged payments connected to ukraine. the united nations says aid...