JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit on Friday, winning a hug from Saudi Arabia s Crown Prince at a
A dish that would be the talk of the town for. some states. worth of smear of the oh and then i did it. but at the same time this dessert is really stealing the show if the government of syria. is going to snicker decide to a lot of new dishes many original desserts or see all with ideas and messages behind them is what s that those are still on you. so think i want my guests to notice them as well. but this flower pot just there is so popular there is a dog in the limelight. i ll have to invent something that takes some of the shine off of that dessert with something so original that it surpasses the flower pot it diminishes how they do it in the same.
They had different rules of engagement. they had different target sets they could do. they could engage in different training exercises with different factions within syria that i think were very, very helpful. and now, again, i don t think this was just about that. the turks were saying, hey, we re going to come down into turkey. that s a hard problem. you ve got to face it. the russians have said, hey, we re going to continuing this. the syrians have been executing americans. they just executed a 26-year-old american who was participating in an n.g.o., the government of syria. so, to do that on the heels of that, boy, i tell you, it just gets my blood pressure up. it makes us look weak. it destabilizes our allies who are coalition forces, saying, we can t really leave. and our soldiers who are standing in the ditch right there pointing guns at bad people are thinking, what in the heck am i doing here? well, this was not the way twitter is not the way to conduct they put out a video also. i ll just say i hope the timing has nothing to do with a distraction from other stories.
Forth and kick some fanny in syria and get this thing done, and they did. all the shackles were taken off. they had different rules of engagement. they had different target sets they could do. they could engage in different training exercises with different factions within syria that i think were very, very helpful. and now, again, i don t think this was just about that. the turks were saying, hey, we re going to come down into turkey. that s a hard problem. you ve got to face it. the russians have said, hey, we re going to continuing this. the syrians have been executing americans. they just executed a 26-year-old american who was participating in an n.g.o., the government of syria. so, to do that on the heels of that, boy, i tell you, it just gets my blood pressure up. it makes us look weak. it destabilizes our allies who are coalition forces, saying, we can t really leave. and our soldiers who are standing in the ditch right there pointing guns at bad people are thinking, what in the heck am i doing here? well, this was not the way
Reporter. this is a government, a country that supports the government of syria. reporter: that s right, richard. very strongly supports the assad government. they ve invested a lot of political and financial capital in syria. they strongly condemn the attacks this morning. they said that the u.s. attack on syria was a flagrant violation of international laws, ignoring syria s sovereignty. they warned of a broader regional consequences because of this attack and even said that president trump launched the attack to deflect from his own domestic problems. pledging support for assad and syria telling them they can
in the fight against isis which the world has largely been united about, syria has sought cover. the syrian administration has said everybody is a terrorist whose aim is to destabilize what they call the legitimate government of syria. inasmuch as the rest of us have not done our job, many syrians say the government is the biggest problem. when we saw the government starting to perpetuate this kooim claim that they were combatting terrorist and the russians were behind that claim as well and they continue to say that. one of the things we had to continue fighting is that no it s the syrian government and assad and his cronies around him. the difficulty with that was when extremists took advantage of the ground in syria and it became a breeding ground for terrorism when you have that kind of vacuum. you had a lot of different groups from all sorts of
Committee and by the special counsel. so now she goes before the house intel committee. trey gowdy last night says there is limits to the line of questioning that she should face, listen. it has to be relevant. we can t ask her about something that happened in high school. i say that because the democrats sometimes do like to go back 25 years to ask questions. we re investigating what did russia do, with whom did they do it, what was the u.s. government s response and disseminating classified information. that s the scope to me. if she was part of the campaign we ought to ask her about adam schiff s allegations of collusion. sandra: she was part of that campaign and really a key witness, right? i would say so. certainly they do as well. so she will come in and make her case. i agree with everything that trey gowdy had to say. and i have to tell you as a non-attorney, sometimes this line of questioning is so far off base that it makes my head spin to the point during one of the breaks one time one of the
Mandates, the public is served better. companies grow, people prosper. so why can t this happen with healthcare? i think taking big government out and introducing price transparency and competition will make healthcare better. good for them for trying once again. sandra: a busy news morning. thank you for being on this morning. bill: jon scott is coming up next with a preview of happening now. good morning. good morning, bill. president trump saying he will ban bump stocks while lawmakers struggle to agree on what congress can do about gun violence. deputy press secretary hogan gidley joins us live and white house communications director hope hicks testifying before the house intel committee today as part of the russia investigation. will she answer questions or claim executive privilege? at least 11 people arrested in an ice raid in california after the oakland mayor warned her community it was coming. now she is speaking out in
bill: breaking news on north korea. report suggesting pyongyang is shipping supplies to the syrian government that could be used to make chemical weapons. john bolton former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and senior fellow american enterprise institute. good morning. you ve seen the report. what s up with this? i think this is potentially very significant. it is a report allegedly not yet published by u.n. s weapons experts checking north korean compliance with the sanctions imposed on the government of syria. it is said the north koreans are supplying materials that you use in formulating chemical weapons and equipment. valves and seals and what not to protect against the corrosiveness of chemical weapons. we know north korea has an extensive chemical weapons capability. if north korea is in fact supplying syria with this, you have to ask who is helping them? is it russia? which is certainly possible.