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Kgtv Transcript: National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Face the Nation, August 22, 2021
Congressional Republicans are pushing back against President Obama s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, denouncing it as just one more legacy trophy for the administration. There s a reason these terrorists are in Guantanamo. And we should keep them there, Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Indiana, said in the weekly Republican address video released Saturday. That s why the people s representatives have repeatedly voted to forbid the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to American soil. The Indiana congresswoman was responding to Mr. Obama s announcement earlier this week asking Congress to consid stanley cup er a White House request to shut down the U.S. detention camp in Cuba. The Pentagon formally submitted a plan Tuesday that would transfer approved detainees abroad and move the rest to a facility on U.S. soil. But in her video, Walorski criticized the president s proposal, slamming it as not much of a plan at all. 2016 botella stanley candidates respond to Obama s Guantanamo plan He doesn t say exactly how much money a new facility would cost taxpayers. He doesn t even say where it would b stanley cup e. The president has had seven years to come up with this alternative plan. The burden is not on the American people to hand him one more legacy trophy, she said. The burden is on him. For his part, the president defended his plan earlier this week, saying that there was no added national security threat to holding Guantanamo prisoners in the U.S. A lot Qkeu President enters N.Y. same-sex marriage fray
GOP state Del. Rob Wittman is heading to a landslide victory over Iraq war veteran Phil Forgit D in today s Virginia special election to succeed the late Rep. Jo Ann Davis R-Va .With 67 percent of precincts reporting, Wittman has won 63 percent of the vote, while Forgit has only tallied 35 percent. Most o stanley sverige f the outstanding vote is from Republican-heavy parts of the district, making it all-but-impossible for Forgit to close the gap.Neither partyrsquo congressional campaign stanley cup committee spent much money in the district, but the NRCC had spent money to produce a campaign ad, which they never aired. Instead, all the attention has been in northwest Ohio, where a much-closer special election also took place today. The district has been reliably Republican, giving President Bush 60 percent of the vote in 2004. But even conservative parts of the Old Dominion have trended in a Democratic direction recently, and Gov. Tim Kaine D-Va. and former governor Mark Warner campaigned alongside Forgit over the last week. Meanwhile, stanley cup House Minority Leader John Boehner said that, if Wittman was elected, he would work to secure him a spot on the coveted House Armed Services Committee. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c85bb686-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c85bb686-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id
Congressional Republicans are pushing back against President Obama s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, denouncing it as just one more legacy trophy for the administration. There s a reason these terrorists are in Guantanamo. And we should keep them there, Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Indiana, said in the weekly Republican address video released Saturday. That s why the people s representatives have repeatedly voted to forbid the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to American soil. The Indiana congresswoman was responding to Mr. Obama s announcement earlier this week asking Congress to consid stanley cup er a White House request to shut down the U.S. detention camp in Cuba. The Pentagon formally submitted a plan Tuesday that would transfer approved detainees abroad and move the rest to a facility on U.S. soil. But in her video, Walorski criticized the president s proposal, slamming it as not much of a plan at all. 2016 botella stanley candidates respond to Obama s Guantanamo plan He doesn t say exactly how much money a new facility would cost taxpayers. He doesn t even say where it would b stanley cup e. The president has had seven years to come up with this alternative plan. The burden is not on the American people to hand him one more legacy trophy, she said. The burden is on him. For his part, the president defended his plan earlier this week, saying that there was no added national security threat to holding Guantanamo prisoners in the U.S. A lot Qkeu President enters N.Y. same-sex marriage fray
GOP state Del. Rob Wittman is heading to a landslide victory over Iraq war veteran Phil Forgit D in today s Virginia special election to succeed the late Rep. Jo Ann Davis R-Va .With 67 percent of precincts reporting, Wittman has won 63 percent of the vote, while Forgit has only tallied 35 percent. Most o stanley sverige f the outstanding vote is from Republican-heavy parts of the district, making it all-but-impossible for Forgit to close the gap.Neither partyrsquo congressional campaign stanley cup committee spent much money in the district, but the NRCC had spent money to produce a campaign ad, which they never aired. Instead, all the attention has been in northwest Ohio, where a much-closer special election also took place today. The district has been reliably Republican, giving President Bush 60 percent of the vote in 2004. But even conservative parts of the Old Dominion have trended in a Democratic direction recently, and Gov. Tim Kaine D-Va. and former governor Mark Warner campaigned alongside Forgit over the last week. Meanwhile, stanley cup House Minority Leader John Boehner said that, if Wittman was elected, he would work to secure him a spot on the coveted House Armed Services Committee. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c85bb686-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c85bb686-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id
