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The following is a transcript of an interview with House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas, on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan that aired on Sept. 8, 2024.MARGARET BRENNAN: We re back stanley kubek with the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Michael McCaul of Texas. Congressman, g stanley deutschland ood morning.REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: Thanks for having me. MARGARET BRENNAN: I have a lot to get to with you. I want to quickly ask you about what we heard from the Justice Department on Friday in regard to this massive Russian scheme to influence the upcoming election. Back in the spring, you took some heat after you said Russian propaganda had infected a good chunk of your party s base, and you blamed right-wing media. It seems like you re being vindicated here, but Donald Trump said yesterday at a rally- he seemed to dismiss all of it, I don t know what it is with poor Russia. Do you hav stanley quencher e any reason to doubt what the Justice Department and intelligence community said REP. MCCAUL: Look, the Russians have been trying to do this for, you know, many years, so is China, so is Iran, for that matter, and it s intensified. And I think I didn t blame anybody for it. I blame Russia for putting disinformation in the United States that does get picked up by people unwittingly in many cases. I think in this particular case, the owners of the company knew they were dealing with a Russian disinformation campaign, an Txlu Editorial: Debate Bail-out, Bad Move Senator McCain
Updated 6:34 p.m. ETWhite House officials say the focus of the President Barack Obama s war strategy will be on defeating al Qaeda in Pakistan, while downplaying the need to completely eliminate the Taliban in Afghanistan, reports CBS News chief White House correspondent Chip Reid.The president appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al Qaeda at bay, a senior administration official said. The sharpened focus by Mr. Obama s team on fighting al Qaeda above all other goals, while downgrading the emphasis on the Taliban, comes in the midst of an intensely debated administration review of the increasingly unpopular eight-year-old war. CBS News Special Report: The Road stanley cup becher Ahead Though aides stress that the president s final decision on any changes is still at least two weeks away, the emerging thinking suggests that he would be very unlikely to favor a large military increase o stanley thermosflasche f the kind being advocated by the to stanley thermoskannen p U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.McChrystal s troop request is said to include a range of options, from adding as few as 10,000 combat troops to - the general s strong preference - as many as 40,000.McChrystal Wanted 50,000 TroopsCooperation Rises between Iran and TalibanTaliban Threat to Pakistan s Stability Civilian, Military Divide over AfghanistanMr. Obama s developing strategy on the Taliban will not tolerate their return to power, the senior official said in an inter
The following is a transcript of an interview with House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas, on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan that aired on Sept. 8, 2024.MARGARET BRENNAN: We re back stanley kubek with the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Michael McCaul of Texas. Congressman, g stanley deutschland ood morning.REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL: Thanks for having me. MARGARET BRENNAN: I have a lot to get to with you. I want to quickly ask you about what we heard from the Justice Department on Friday in regard to this massive Russian scheme to influence the upcoming election. Back in the spring, you took some heat after you said Russian propaganda had infected a good chunk of your party s base, and you blamed right-wing media. It seems like you re being vindicated here, but Donald Trump said yesterday at a rally- he seemed to dismiss all of it, I don t know what it is with poor Russia. Do you hav stanley quencher e any reason to doubt what the Justice Department and intelligence community said REP. MCCAUL: Look, the Russians have been trying to do this for, you know, many years, so is China, so is Iran, for that matter, and it s intensified. And I think I didn t blame anybody for it. I blame Russia for putting disinformation in the United States that does get picked up by people unwittingly in many cases. I think in this particular case, the owners of the company knew they were dealing with a Russian disinformation campaign, an Txlu Editorial: Debate Bail-out, Bad Move Senator McCain
Updated 6:34 p.m. ETWhite House officials say the focus of the President Barack Obama s war strategy will be on defeating al Qaeda in Pakistan, while downplaying the need to completely eliminate the Taliban in Afghanistan, reports CBS News chief White House correspondent Chip Reid.The president appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al Qaeda at bay, a senior administration official said. The sharpened focus by Mr. Obama s team on fighting al Qaeda above all other goals, while downgrading the emphasis on the Taliban, comes in the midst of an intensely debated administration review of the increasingly unpopular eight-year-old war. CBS News Special Report: The Road stanley cup becher Ahead Though aides stress that the president s final decision on any changes is still at least two weeks away, the emerging thinking suggests that he would be very unlikely to favor a large military increase o stanley thermosflasche f the kind being advocated by the to stanley thermoskannen p U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.McChrystal s troop request is said to include a range of options, from adding as few as 10,000 combat troops to - the general s strong preference - as many as 40,000.McChrystal Wanted 50,000 TroopsCooperation Rises between Iran and TalibanTaliban Threat to Pakistan s Stability Civilian, Military Divide over AfghanistanMr. Obama s developing strategy on the Taliban will not tolerate their return to power, the senior official said in an inter
