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graham, that this has been a project dash has been a project to destroy independent political will,يام بفتوحات خارج العالم الاسلامي. انا اريد منكم 120 قائد عمليات طبعا كانت يعني شعرت في تلك الليله ان الدنيا كلها عند الحاج قاسم هي العراق وهي هذه المعركه كان جدا متاثرا مما كان يجري في العراق وحاضر يعني لان يقتل في العراق الف مره من اجل نجاه الشعب العراقي والعتبات المقدسه. والحوزات العلميه وابعاد هذا الخطر عن العراق وعن الجمهوريه الاسلاميه وعن كل المنطقه بقي معي وقمنا نتصل بالاخوه واحدا واحدا وقمنا بتامين في ذلك الوقت ما يقارب ال60 قائدا ميدانيا بعضهم من الاخوه الذين كانوا في الجبهه في سويريا بهذا اللي بياخذوا القرار وبتم استدعاء مجموعه من الاخوان لجلسه بالشام مع الحج قاسم بلشوا الاخوان يجوا من اماكن متفرقه ببيروت شيء بالجنوب شيء بالبقاع شيء بالالمون لانه كانت الاحداث السوريه مبلشه كمان حتى كان في اخوان بحلب موجودين وفي بالغوطه يعني كانوا بمامورياتهم هول ما كانوا اصلا بالبيوت ان damaماس سليمان الله لما وصلوا كمان كان السيد زلفقار الله يرحمه وقعد هو والحج قاسم مع الحج قاسم قال لهم انه الداعش هلا هجم انتم عندكم تجربه وعندكم قدرات وامكانات طبعا بلش اخذ اختصاصات مختلفه ضباط عمليات اساسيين
graham, that this has been a project dash has been a project to destroy independent political will,يام بفتوحات خارج العالم الاسلامي. انا اريد منكم 120 قائد عمليات طبعا كانت يعني شعرت في تلك الليله ان الدنيا كلها عند الحاج قاسم هي العراق وهي هذه المعركه كان جدا متاثرا مما كان يجري في العراق وحاضر يعني لان يقتل في العراق...
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that is what lindsay graham and other senators are saying to the faces of the leaders of some of the world's top social media companies right now on capitol hill. that hearing happening as we speak. let's listen in. >> up this, chairman durbin and thank you, ranking member graham for those words. i couldn't agree more. for too long we have been seeing the social media companies turn a blind eye when kids have joined these platforms in record numbers. they have used algorithms that push harmful content because that content got popular. they provided a venue, maybe not knowingly at first, but for dealers to sell deadly drugs like fentanyl. our own head of our drug enforcement administration has said they basically have been captured by the cartels in mexico and in china. so i strongly support, first of all, the top csam bill. i agree with senator graham that nothing will change unless we open up the courtroom doors. i think for all of this immunity is done because i think money talks even stronger than we talk up here. two of the five bills that are noted are my bills with senator corn
that is what lindsay graham and other senators are saying to the faces of the leaders of some of the world's top social media companies right now on capitol hill. that hearing happening as we speak. let's listen in. >> up this, chairman durbin and thank you, ranking member graham for those words. i couldn't agree more. for too long we have been seeing the social media companies turn a blind eye when kids have joined these platforms in record numbers. they have used algorithms that push...
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today republican senator lindsay graham attacked president biden saying his policy of deterrence hasn the u.s. to strike targets inside iran. with us now is general wesley clark, he is a former nato supreme allied commander. good to see you, general. the drone struck near the living quarters on the base. does that tell you that they were aiming for maximum casualties? >> it might suggest that, and we don't know all the facts surrounding this yet and we don't know the technology. there's a lot behind the scenes on this, fredericka. we just don't know, but regardless it was purely a strike demonstrated, aiming to demonstrate america's powerlessness to make us look weak, to show that we're incapable of defending ourselves or pursuing our objectives in the region effectively. >> and about that technology,al we know is it was a drone attack, but does a drone in this kind of attack, does it carry a missile, some other type of projectile? something that is controllable you can aim or does it drop a bomb? >> in this case it may have had a large warhead and may have been a suicide drone for a
today republican senator lindsay graham attacked president biden saying his policy of deterrence hasn the u.s. to strike targets inside iran. with us now is general wesley clark, he is a former nato supreme allied commander. good to see you, general. the drone struck near the living quarters on the base. does that tell you that they were aiming for maximum casualties? >> it might suggest that, and we don't know all the facts surrounding this yet and we don't know the technology. there's a...
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graham and roger w, roger wicker who want to bomb iran now, that could happen, but iran is saying, if you do that, if you try to bomb us, if you try to wage war against. we will act and uh and we will act very decisively and in all sorts of ways that will hurt the united states and uh its allies. and on that note appreciate you being with this george samley senior research fellow global policy institute, london metropolitan university out of budapest. moving to other news, now this hour tehran and islamabad emphasized joint efforts in the fight against terrorism as a threat to both countries. iranian foreign minister hussein. amir abdullahyan and pakistan's chief of army staff general sayid assim munir expressed determination to maintain close cooperation to block any act of sabotage in a meeting in the pakistani city ver pendy, the two sides agreed upon implementation of mechanism to deploy military lazan officers to fight common threats. iranian and pakistani top officials also stress commitment to promoting peace and stability in border areas, the... and foreign minister also met w
graham and roger w, roger wicker who want to bomb iran now, that could happen, but iran is saying, if you do that, if you try to bomb us, if you try to wage war against. we will act and uh and we will act very decisively and in all sorts of ways that will hurt the united states and uh its allies. and on that note appreciate you being with this george samley senior research fellow global policy institute, london metropolitan university out of budapest. moving to other news, now this hour tehran...
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senator lindsay graham calling on the president to strike targets inside of iran >> the biden administration has made major efforts to keep this war in gaza from escalating, deterrence has failed. >> the militia groups the white house says are behind the drone strikes are being funded, armed and tlaned by iran >> they have some autonomy, but this is iran orchestrating on u.s. military forces and interests in the region since the hamas attack on israel these smaller militant groups have targeted sites with american service members in syria and iraq dozens of times the pentagon has been hitting back at iranian-backed yemen after they began firing back on u.s. navy ships and other commercial vessels the attack in jordan claiming american lives and injuring dozens could change things >> what sorts of options would you want to be on the table >> i think they're going to be forced into walking away from so-called proportionate response against a firing unit that has engaged u.s. forces at some point you have to go to a higher level pressure point and apply economic, diplomatic, covert and military
senator lindsay graham calling on the president to strike targets inside of iran >> the biden administration has made major efforts to keep this war in gaza from escalating, deterrence has failed. >> the militia groups the white house says are behind the drone strikes are being funded, armed and tlaned by iran >> they have some autonomy, but this is iran orchestrating on u.s. military forces and interests in the region since the hamas attack on israel these smaller militant...
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they're gonna go lindsay graham on everyone, if biden even does show some diplomacy, so i grant that to you, that's a very, very a very good point, uh, crocodile tears are being cried, i think. well - glenn, do you think that these western countries or western regimes have totally discredited themselves since this genocide has started? um, i mean, your assessment of that, whether we're talking about the united states, we start off with the united states or we look at the uk, and we look at the uh the other european powers and what they have said and what they have done, and then to see that this genocide is continuing, your assessment? no, i think definitely, and this is something that's... recognized in the in the western media as well, which is that the you know the americans and europeans have been really over the past two years been lobbing the global south very heavy to portray. russians as these evil imperialists, while the west, we stand on the side of you, human rights and decency and human dignity, and then uh, again, this is also based a false narrative of course, but then
they're gonna go lindsay graham on everyone, if biden even does show some diplomacy, so i grant that to you, that's a very, very a very good point, uh, crocodile tears are being cried, i think. well - glenn, do you think that these western countries or western regimes have totally discredited themselves since this genocide has started? um, i mean, your assessment of that, whether we're talking about the united states, we start off with the united states or we look at the uk, and we look at the...
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they're going to go lindsay graham on everyone, if biden even does show some diplomacy, so i grant that to you, that's a very, very a very good point, uh, crocodile tears are being cried, i think. well uh, glenn, do you think that these western countries or western regimes have totally discredited themselves since this genocide has started? um, i mean, your assessment of that, whether we're talking about the united states, we start off with the united states or we look at the uk and we look at the uh the other european powers and what they have said and what they have done, and then to see that this genocide is continuing, your assessment? no, i think definitely, and this is something that's recognized in, the in the western media as well, which is that you the americans and europeans have been really over the past two years been lobbing the global south very heavy to portray the russians as these evil imperialists, while the west, we stand on the side of you, human rights and decency and human dignity, and then again this is also based on the false narrative of course, but then then we
they're going to go lindsay graham on everyone, if biden even does show some diplomacy, so i grant that to you, that's a very, very a very good point, uh, crocodile tears are being cried, i think. well uh, glenn, do you think that these western countries or western regimes have totally discredited themselves since this genocide has started? um, i mean, your assessment of that, whether we're talking about the united states, we start off with the united states or we look at the uk and we look at...
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graham in in america, saying is a religious war and and wipe it out, wipe the whole of god, so all of the supporters outside, you even the jewish chronicles editor came weighed in with with such language, so at the beginning you you see the whole of the um the the the israeli establishment and its supporters um spouting genocidal ethnic cleansing intent, then what you see is the idea f uh actually implementing and carrying out those actions and then there's a repetition of those demands uh, i think there's three times the number of explosive content which has fallen on gaza compared to hiroshima just alone, and that's not an accident, and i think that is where they're scared, because the south african case makes that connection and is beginning to bring out those statements and connecting it with the actions, and so of course david cameron has to backtrack, but he can't... cover up all of this evidence, which is which is quite clear that israel wants to ethnic cleanse, wants to wipe out gaza and wipe out gazans. all right, um, just a quick reminder to our viewers, if you've just tuned
graham in in america, saying is a religious war and and wipe it out, wipe the whole of god, so all of the supporters outside, you even the jewish chronicles editor came weighed in with with such language, so at the beginning you you see the whole of the um the the the israeli establishment and its supporters um spouting genocidal ethnic cleansing intent, then what you see is the idea f uh actually implementing and carrying out those actions and then there's a repetition of those demands uh, i...
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grahams and obamas and bidens, even trumps, so however that goes is another matter, but the american people are rising up, this thing that's happened in gaza, this thing that's happened to the palestinians and the the terror that's going to be inflicted in the next six months, if the world doesn't stand up and interven through providing humanitarian mission materials, that's what's so simp. about this is the world's nations have a perfect justification to come in and say, we're not going to allow the humanitarin life sustaining materials to be cut off from these people, we're not going to commit murder, and that's what we would be doing if we starve them to death, if we dehydrated them, if we didn't provide them a basic medicine, we are we are leaving them in a dungeon and just letting them die, and who does that? no one that is blessed. by god and no one that is decent nation or people that even deserves to exist, no one deserves and to exist who would do this to another person, to the palestinians and you're seeing americans and canadians and brits and germans and scandinavians and
grahams and obamas and bidens, even trumps, so however that goes is another matter, but the american people are rising up, this thing that's happened in gaza, this thing that's happened to the palestinians and the the terror that's going to be inflicted in the next six months, if the world doesn't stand up and interven through providing humanitarian mission materials, that's what's so simp. about this is the world's nations have a perfect justification to come in and say, we're not going to...
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graham in in america, saying is a religious war and and wipe it out, wipe the whole of god, so all of the supporters outside, even the jewish chronicles editor came weighed in with with such language, so at the beginning you you see the whole of the um the the the israeli establishment and its supporters um spouting genocidal ethnic cleansing intent, then what you see is the id f uh actually implementing and carrying out those actions and then there's a repetition of those demands uh, you know, i think there's three times the number of explosive content which has fallen on gaza compared to hiroshima just alone, and that's not an accident, and i think that is where they're scared, because the south african case makes that connection and is beginning to bring out those statements and connecting it with the actions, and so of course david cameron has to backtrack, but he can't... cover up all of this evidence, which is which is quite clear that israel wants to ethnic cleanse, wants to wipe out gaza and wipe out gazans. all right, um, just a quick reminder to our viewers, if you've just t
graham in in america, saying is a religious war and and wipe it out, wipe the whole of god, so all of the supporters outside, even the jewish chronicles editor came weighed in with with such language, so at the beginning you you see the whole of the um the the the israeli establishment and its supporters um spouting genocidal ethnic cleansing intent, then what you see is the id f uh actually implementing and carrying out those actions and then there's a repetition of those demands uh, you know,...
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. >> to that point, senator lindsay graham and other republicans are calling for the u.s. to strike inside iran. we spoke to congressman adam smith in the 5:00 hour on this program, and he suggested perhaps the u.s. should look at targets inside iran to send a message. your thoughts on that? >> yeah, i don't agree with any of that, jim, quite frankly. the administration has been attempting to deter a larger regional conflict that could easily turn into a global conflict. you have to remember iran is connected to not only russia but also china and other nations, so when you are talking about the deniability that iran has in support of somebody's popular mobilization forces, the pmf forces, these are militia groups. it's one thing, as kim said, to go after these groups. it's very difficult to go after the launch sites of a drone or launch site of a rocket, but can you certainly hit the supply capabilities and the command and control elements. the biden administration has been doing that. i think what we will see as an affect on this is probably a much larger strike against s
. >> to that point, senator lindsay graham and other republicans are calling for the u.s. to strike inside iran. we spoke to congressman adam smith in the 5:00 hour on this program, and he suggested perhaps the u.s. should look at targets inside iran to send a message. your thoughts on that? >> yeah, i don't agree with any of that, jim, quite frankly. the administration has been attempting to deter a larger regional conflict that could easily turn into a global conflict. you have to...
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in his opening remarks, senator lindsay graham, the top republican on the committee, took aim at facebook founder and ceo, mark zuckerburg. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your you have a product that is killing people. and i use it, we all use it. there's an upside everything here. of the dark side has not been dealt with. it's now time to deal with the dark side because people have taken youridea dark side because people have taken your idea and they have turned it into a nightmare for the american people. they turned into a nightmare for the world at large. this was facebook founder and ceo, mark zuckerburg's opening remarks: at the end of the day, we want everyone who uses our services to have safe and positive expericences. before i wrap up, i want to recognise the families who are here todaywho have lost a loved one or lived through some terrible things that no family should have to endure. these issues are important for every parent and every parent and every platform. i'm committed to continuing to work in th
in his opening remarks, senator lindsay graham, the top republican on the committee, took aim at facebook founder and ceo, mark zuckerburg. mr zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, i know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your you have a product that is killing people. and i use it, we all use it. there's an upside everything here. of the dark side has not been dealt with. it's now time to deal with the dark side because people have taken youridea dark side because people...
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i can remember lindsay graham saying something about voting for trump is like picking your poison.and then things turn around and next thing you know they're standing there saying he's by guy. how are they able to do this? >> for some of them who take the hardest trump hit, see have a remarkable evidence of scar free spine removal. no evidence of the surgery, but guys who trump as a vest radar on his side. privately most of them will tell you they don't like trump, they think he's mean, they think he is course. >> they think he is a bully? >> but they know he is the base of the party and when they go home their voters give them grief for not being on team trump. and so essentially, they surrender. since he came down that escalator, think about this. that is 2015. this is 2024. they've been thinking, eventually's gonna go away. we'll find a way to wait out, hide be an australian till the day he goes away. but he's winning republicans. he's incredibly strong with the republican based, it's why those people. little marco line ten, whatever calls all the rest of them. they don't fight
i can remember lindsay graham saying something about voting for trump is like picking your poison.and then things turn around and next thing you know they're standing there saying he's by guy. how are they able to do this? >> for some of them who take the hardest trump hit, see have a remarkable evidence of scar free spine removal. no evidence of the surgery, but guys who trump as a vest radar on his side. privately most of them will tell you they don't like trump, they think he's mean,...
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lindsay graham, the republican senator from south carolina said it iran and to them hard.his area here , begging the question are we in fact at war. you have to have some sort of an authorization by congress to go in and strike iran which senator brown and senator cotton have alluded to here. a lot of people saying we have authorization to do that because of the powers in article two of the constitution the president being commander-in-chief. you have increasing bipartisan voices on capitol hill. both sides of the aisle saying if you look in article one section eight, only congress can declare war. this is when you start to get into the slippery slope. we have been firing these attacks for some time now. two seals killed last week. other military casualties today. people will start asking where we exerting our authority in one authorities is the president using to exercise these attacks overseas. >> it certainly feels like we are inching closer to war. it strikes me that senator and virginia off so comes up about the use of military force. others on capitol hill seem to no
lindsay graham, the republican senator from south carolina said it iran and to them hard.his area here , begging the question are we in fact at war. you have to have some sort of an authorization by congress to go in and strike iran which senator brown and senator cotton have alluded to here. a lot of people saying we have authorization to do that because of the powers in article two of the constitution the president being commander-in-chief. you have increasing bipartisan voices on capitol...
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the ranking minority senator lindsay graham on this committee has said that these companies have bloodn their hands. so this hearing could get very tense. in the meantime, you are looking to buy a house or finance a car or make major financial decisions? you better pay attention to a big announcement coming today. >>> newly released body cam video shows the moments before the beating that cost tyree nichols his life. not just any whiteboard... ...katie porter's whiteboard is one way she's: [news anchor] ...often seen grilling top executives of banks, big pharma, even top administration officials. katie porter. never taken corporate pac money - never will. leading the fight to ban congressional stock trading. and the only democrat who opposed wasteful “earmarks” that fund politicians' pet projects. katie porter. focused on your challenges - from lowering housing costs to fighting climate change. shake up the senate - with democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. you may know adam schiff's work to protect the rule of law, or to build affordable housing, or writ
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lindsay graham is begging trump for air cover constantly in order to survive politically in south carolinaou everything you need to know. >> you are so right, just even about the redefining, right? >> yeah, the words have different meaning. my gen x brain sometimes breaks trying to be, like, that's not conservative. no, the definition changes. >> among the things changing, and the nbc news entrance poll found among iowa caucusgoers, immigration was a number one issue, and again, about definitions, what is that state's deaf mission of immigration and what crisis are they looking at? >> that's another thing. conservative media made this the issue, and it's the conversation that is being had. ironically there's a more nuance conversation they want to have about immigration, they need immigrants for the meat packing industry and the jobs they can't find folks for, and nobody inside the republican party is comfortable talking about that issue right now, because in some ways it has been demagogued. >> i remember in the '80s when i was in the iowa caucuses, there was an influx of southeast asians
lindsay graham is begging trump for air cover constantly in order to survive politically in south carolinaou everything you need to know. >> you are so right, just even about the redefining, right? >> yeah, the words have different meaning. my gen x brain sometimes breaks trying to be, like, that's not conservative. no, the definition changes. >> among the things changing, and the nbc news entrance poll found among iowa caucusgoers, immigration was a number one issue, and...
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remember what lindsay graham tweeted in 2016 when trump was still an outlier in the party. i do.te, if we nominate trump, we will get destroyed. and we will deserve it. when trump won the white house any way, graham got busy reducing himself to a maga foot stool in the u.s. senate. proximity to power will do that. like trump, hitler was also viewed as a clown, a goon who could be kept in line. and then there are the accommodations that the media makes with autocracy. in november 19, '22, "new york times" gave their first glimpse of hitler, a profile of a early rise in bavaria in germany got a key point very right. asserting that, quote, hitler's anti-semitism was not so violent or g as it sounded. before he rose to power, hitler staged a coup. it was a coup that failed. sound familiar? hitler went to prison for it. but the failed coup set the stage for nazi germany. and when he was freed from prison, just over a year after the failed push, the times offered this unfortunate and incorrect assessment that hitler had been tamed by prison. the next year, so much of this sounds famili
remember what lindsay graham tweeted in 2016 when trump was still an outlier in the party. i do.te, if we nominate trump, we will get destroyed. and we will deserve it. when trump won the white house any way, graham got busy reducing himself to a maga foot stool in the u.s. senate. proximity to power will do that. like trump, hitler was also viewed as a clown, a goon who could be kept in line. and then there are the accommodations that the media makes with autocracy. in november 19, '22,...
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is that lindsay graham outwitting here?end of the day she's not got good south carolina politics in her favor right now and she's not gone to win the nomination if she can't win south carolina. >> bottom line, it all comes down to south carolina. thank you so much. great to see you. we'll see you, of course, on election night. we'll be up covering everything and when we come back does nikki haley still have a shot at (torstein hagen) in my simple world, there are only three things that matter in human beings. first, they have to be kind. kind. second, they have to be honest. and third, they have to be hard-working. it's very simple. wherever you are in the world, when you come to a different culture, you meet people of very different backgrounds, but you find out that they have the same ambitions and the same fears just like yourself. i'm so sure that travel is good for the world. it's really the best to engage with the locals and the destination. and i think travel helps broaden the human mind and makes us kinder. and that
is that lindsay graham outwitting here?end of the day she's not got good south carolina politics in her favor right now and she's not gone to win the nomination if she can't win south carolina. >> bottom line, it all comes down to south carolina. thank you so much. great to see you. we'll see you, of course, on election night. we'll be up covering everything and when we come back does nikki haley still have a shot at (torstein hagen) in my simple world, there are only three things that...
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graham to say i am done with donald trump.ng a speech on january 6th is the kind of thing they need to be doing. >> donald trump, what he does, he goes there instead of cowers from things, and he is talking about the people that were put in jail for the crimes committed on january 6th as hostages, and now donald trump is appealing the decision in maine to remove him from the ballot. last week, the secretary of state ruled trump was ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot based on the 14th amendment, and now that her decision has been appealed it will be heard by the state's superior court. a new filing from the trump legal team accuses bellos of president in her decision. the secretary was a biassed decision-maker who should have recused herself. she responded saying i have confidence in my decision and in the rule of law. everyone who serves in the government has a duty to uphold the constitution first of all. the court has until saturday to overturn that decision. we have timing issues with that as well. we will s
graham to say i am done with donald trump.ng a speech on january 6th is the kind of thing they need to be doing. >> donald trump, what he does, he goes there instead of cowers from things, and he is talking about the people that were put in jail for the crimes committed on january 6th as hostages, and now donald trump is appealing the decision in maine to remove him from the ballot. last week, the secretary of state ruled trump was ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot based...