LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feigned ignorance over the firing of FBI Director James Comey at a joint appearance with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Wednesday. https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/862286432207089664 Lavrov was responding to a question from MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell about whether President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch French President-elect Emmanuel Macron told President Donald Trump he would “protect” the Paris climate change agreement during their first phone conversation Monday. “He told him he’s going to try to protect what was made in Paris,” Macron’s spokeswoman Laurence Haim told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Monday. “He is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Wednesday that the United States won’t mandate that other countries adopt human rights values as a precondition for a relationship. During a speech at the Department of State, Tillerson noted that when it comes to issues like national security, relationships with other…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Almost two dozen representatives from both sides of the aisle led by GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter are urging President Donald Trump to approve sales of the MQ-9 Reaper drone to Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. In a letter sent Monday and obtained by The Daily Caller…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch The battle over the fate of the Paris agreement has reached new heights as groups make last-minute efforts to petition President Donald Trump on the deal to cut global carbon dioxide emissions. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian think tank, launched a campaign to hold Trump…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell President Donald Trump is much more “vicious” and “aggressive” than his predecessor, a North Korean official argued Friday. “Now we are comparing Trump’s policy toward the DPRK with the former administration’s, and we have concluded that it’s becoming more vicious and more aggressive,” North Korean Vice Foreign…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos President Donald Trump stressed that North Korea “is a problem” that will be dealt with Thursday, shortly after news broke that the U.S. military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on the Islamic State in Afghanistan. “I don’t know if this sends a message. It…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Sen. Rand Paul believes the Senate Intelligence Committee needs to review the evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was behind a recent chemical attack that killed innocent civilians; and in retaliation to which President Trump ordered airstrikes on Thursday night, says Rare. Paul, who was on the “Laura Ingraham Show”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kitty Testa Tuesday morning the world received word that Syrian civilians were attacked with poisonous gas. Although the attack was just hours old, the official word was that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame. The New York Times went to press Tuesday with the story, noting that Syrian officials charged…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The Pentagon released a map Thursday that reportedly shows the flight pattern of a Syrian aircraft that dropped chemical weapons on civilians Tuesday. Map Released by Pentagon The map was released hours after President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to fire 59 Tomahawk missiles at a northern Syrian airbase, in…